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Re: PinePhone – KDE Community edition

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Post by diggan »

ekianjo wrote: post #11
ognarb wrote: post #3

I'm one of the Plasma Mobile developer and I would be happy to answer questions.

Any reason why Firefox is not prominently advertised instead of Angelfish?

One could guess it's because Plasma Angelfish want to be well integrated into the rest of the KDE ecosystem (works well with Plasma, has KDE wallet integration and all that jazz). I think Angelfish is based on webkit (via Qt) as well, for better or worse.

Re: PinePhone – KDE Community edition

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Post by oriesdan »

ognarb wrote: post #3

I'm one of the Plasma Mobile developer and I would be happy to answer questions.

Hi, thanks for taking questions.

What is the state of the phone call/sms/mms support in Plasma Mobile on Pinephone?

Also : will the CE edition be some sort of Neon mobile, or will it be based on PostmarketOS or something?

Re: PinePhone – KDE Community edition

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Post by ognarb »

ekianjo wrote: post #11
ognarb wrote: post #3

I'm one of the Plasma Mobile developer and I would be happy to answer questions.

Any reason why Firefox is not prominently advertised instead of Angelfish?

Anglefish has been build specially for Plasma Mobile and use Kirigami (the framework powering most of the PlaMo apps) and QtWebEngine (based on Blink).

Firefox sadly doesn't give us any ways to just use the web engine and do our own UI on top of it. It's a bit sad because Firefox is my preferred web browser on the desktop.

Re: PinePhone – KDE Community edition

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Post by ognarb »

vffhfhf wrote: post #15
ognarb wrote: post #3

I'm one of the Plasma Mobile developer and I would be happy to answer questions.

Why not develop on snapdragon 865 soc and 6-8 gb Ram? I bet it would run really better.

Because it's quite hard to get more modern and powerful processors to work with a mainline Linux kernel and because of this, these processors are only working with Android.

Re: PinePhone – KDE Community edition

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Post by josteink »

microtonal wrote: post #6

I don't have enough background, but I recently read that some distributions could be a fire hazard due to the lack of proper temperature regulation: https://xnux.eu/log/#017 https://xnux.eu/log/#018 If this was the case, is that still a concern and which distributions/systems address this problem?

I believe all those concerns were put to rest once the modularised design of the phone was taken into consideration.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24596248

Re: PinePhone – KDE Community edition

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Post by ognarb »

oriesdan wrote: post #13
ognarb wrote: post #3

I'm one of the Plasma Mobile developer and I would be happy to answer questions.

Hi, thanks for taking questions. What is the state of the phone call/sms/mms support in Plasma Mobile on Pinephone? Also : will the CE edition be some sort of Neon mobile, or will it be based on PostmarketOS or something?

Yes it works! SMS and MMS are supported via the application Spacebar. The application got a lot of improvement last months. https://www.plasma-mobile.org/2020/11/12/plasma-mobile-updat...

Calls are also working fine.

The only "exception" being one carrier in the USA does not seem to work with ofono (the underlying framework) yet, but that issue was also with the previous UBports edition.

Re: PinePhone – KDE Community edition

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Post by ognarb »

jrepinc wrote: post #10
ognarb wrote: post #3

I'm one of the Plasma Mobile developer and I would be happy to answer questions.

Any such plan for KDE edition for Purism Librem 5?

Some Plasma Mobile developers have receive a Librem 5 phone but afaik there is no KDE edition planed for the Librem 5 yet.

Re: PinePhone – KDE Community edition

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Post by Happpy »

ognarb wrote: post #18
oriesdan wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi, thanks for taking questions. What is the state of the phone call/sms/mms support in Plasma Mobile on Pinephone? Also : will the CE edition be some sort of Neon mobile, or will it be based on PostmarketOS or something?

Yes it works! SMS and MMS are supported via the application Spacebar. The application got a lot of improvement last months. https://www.plasma-mobile.org/2020/11/12/plasma-mobile-updat... Calls are also working fine. The only "exception" being one carrier in the USA does not seem to work with ofono (the underlying framework) yet, but that issue was also with the previous UBports edition.

Is there auto call recording? Or on the roadmap.
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