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As long as I can run Firefox on it, and it got a micro-SIM, I'm good. There's a web alternative for most apps I use, where besides that I just need a tiny computer in my pocket with constant connection to the internet (hence, micro-SIM). I still wish FirefoxOS would have come to live..
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I see the PinePhone as a Raspberry Pi equivalent in the Smartphone world, there's definitely a big niche for that.
You don’t need your Raspberry PI to run your bank app, handle your payments or your bus-tickets. I’m not sure how I’d even purchase a non digital ticket for quite a few things in Denmark. Don’t get me wrong, I really hope something like PinePhone sees enough adoption to get the apps I need a smartphone to run so I can break away from the two monopolies. I just don’t believe it will happen when Microsoft couldn’t do i…
Now an truly open system might make a difference. Not saying it will, it has it's own problems, but comparing it to Windows Phone is not really apples to apples.
IMO, Librem5 and PinePhone are the most exciting news of this decade w.r.t mobile ecosystem for hackers, tinkerers, enthusiasts. Librem5 stuck to its security, privacy first agenda and managed to build a phone with PC grade hardware. PinePhone stuck to its affordability first agenda, bringing a Linux capable smartphone hardware to the masses. My only wish is that these project become commercially sustainable and attr…
I think Windows Mobile gave up just prior to the best chance of breaking the duopoly: PWAs. Most app developers will never want to support a half a dozen phone OSes. The solution will inevitably, eventually, be the web.
As long as I can run Firefox on it, and it got a micro-SIM, I'm good. There's a web alternative for most apps I use, where besides that I just need a tiny computer in my pocket with constant connection to the internet (hence, micro-SIM). I still wish FirefoxOS would have come to live..
I would love Firefox OS to resurrect...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2G_OS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KaiOS
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Openmoko sold 13000 phones, which is much more than "dozens." Commercial failure does not necessarily mean you can fit all the customers in a room.
13k is a rounding error. Apple sells that many iphones every 30 minutes. (I'm not kidding... they sell 217M iPhones a year = 594k a day = 24.9k/hr)
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I'm on Tingb(mvno using the T-Mobile networj) and on the West coast. Both zoom and Skype are completely unusable for me.
FWIW, I've been using VOIP for over a year now. I don't make a massive number of calls, but it's perfectly usable over LTE in Western Canada.
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I would love Firefox OS to resurrect...
The Boot 2 Gecko OS was the community-developed successor of FirefoxOS and KaiOS is the commercial proprietary fork of B2G but unfortunately B2G is no longer maintained: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2G_OS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KaiOS
As long as I can run Firefox on it, and it got a micro-SIM, I'm good. There's a web alternative for most apps I use, where besides that I just need a tiny computer in my pocket with constant connection to the internet (hence, micro-SIM). I still wish FirefoxOS would have come to live..
I would love Firefox OS to resurrect...
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Could you just bypass that and use VOIP?
VOIP over 3g is terrible, and over LTE it's only slightly better. Latency and jitter are both very high, which makes it somewhat hostile to VOIP.
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I see the PinePhone as a Raspberry Pi equivalent in the Smartphone world, there's definitely a big niche for that.
You don’t need your Raspberry PI to run your bank app, handle your payments or your bus-tickets. I’m not sure how I’d even purchase a non digital ticket for quite a few things in Denmark. Don’t get me wrong, I really hope something like PinePhone sees enough adoption to get the apps I need a smartphone to run so I can break away from the two monopolies. I just don’t believe it will happen when Microsoft couldn’t do i…