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PostmarketOS Revolutionizes Smartphone Hacking

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Re: PostmarketOS Revolutionizes Smartphone Hacking

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Post by alexmcc81 »

nynx wrote: post #2

I love the ideas behind pinephone, but I think it's just not powerful enough. I'm not sure if there's enough access to more powerful mobile phone processors though.

The new Pro model has a significantly better processor. They're using a binned and underclocked 28nm Rockchip RK3399S 64bit SoC – 2x A72 and 4x A53 CPU cores @ 1.5GHz. The They used an A64 in the base model which was a 40nm Quad-Core ARM Cortex-A53.

Re: PostmarketOS Revolutionizes Smartphone Hacking

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Post by sleepysysadmin »

nynx wrote: post #2

I love the ideas behind pinephone, but I think it's just not powerful enough. I'm not sure if there's enough access to more powerful mobile phone processors though.

I bought the pinebook pro and ya it just doesnt quite have the power I want it to, but on flipside the lack of power gives the giant battery tons of runtime.

But for the pinephone. I really want >= 32mp camera. Whereas 5MP is ridiculous and 2MP selfie? You're right it's slow, it's not quite figured out entirely.

Pinephone pro coming soon and also doesn't quite hit the wants for me. It does look fast though in specs.

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Post by paulcarroty »

nynx wrote: post #2

I love the ideas behind pinephone, but I think it's just not powerful enough. I'm not sure if there's enough access to more powerful mobile phone processors though.

PostmarkerOS currently support some Snapdragon 845 and Snapdragon 821 devices, so you're not limited by pinephone.

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Post by jeroenhd »

jjmellon wrote: post #6

I don't understand the point of this article. Why is PostmarketOS singled out over the 20 or so Linux distributions that run on the Pinephone?

Honestly, I don't think pmOS is any better than any other Linux on the Pinephone.

However, pmOS is pretty unique in their quest to mainline other, closed, Android smartphones by making shitty code vendors put out good enough to be merged and by making their own drivers and shims to get hardware to work.

I don't see why you'd need a Pinephone to work on pmOS, unless you want to develop a pmOS application or feature for an ARM device that has all the features up and running. It's more lightweight than some of its competition, for sure, but honestly it's not really better or worse in terms of hackability.

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Post by black_puppydog »

I love to see validation from Drew of my impression ca 2014, trying to flash some ROMs onto a newly-unmaintained phone:

"Seriously, the solution to not getting security updates anymore is installing a binary using totallyTrustWorthyFoneFlasher_4 (Copy).exe?!"

Re: PostmarketOS Revolutionizes Smartphone Hacking

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Post by fsflover »

nynx wrote: post #2

I love the ideas behind pinephone, but I think it's just not powerful enough. I'm not sure if there's enough access to more powerful mobile phone processors though.

Librem 5 is significantly more powerful, despite the CPU is the same. Much faster RAM, GPU etc.
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