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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by jimmydoreisalefty@lemmus.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml
 

Anyone have a pine phone and running Linux (Ubuntu) as your EDC?

Thinking of buying a cheap phone with new number to see how it goes. Would like to talk and text though.

Any excitement on these new developments and with what is going on with frame works also?

Edit: What phone would you recommend to do it with? Pine phone is med range pricing.

I currently have a GP6a

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[–] Shatur@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

See @linuxphones. I have PP and PPP. I run ArchLinux. PP is slow, but the battery lasts a bit better then PPP. PPP is more powerful, but CPU is too hungry and the phone heats a lot. If you need long battery life or you type a lot, then buy with the Pine keyboard. It's chunky and have some quality issues, but I would say it worth it. Software currently immature. I would recommend buying only if you are a very experienced user.

[–] vd1n@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I have a pp too, would recommend aside from the fact it constantly turns on randomly.

(This is a joke)

[–] barryamelton@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

I have a pinephone (not pro) collecting dust, because it's nowhere near as usable for anything, sadly. But I look forward to linux on phones. I recommend a OnePlus 6 with your choice of linux on phones to be honest.

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just bought a pinetab 2 and they don't even have a functional WiFi driver for the chip they use. Would not recommend

[–] PureTryOut@lemmy.kde.social 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Honestly, why did you expect anything different?

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because it advertised WiFi and Bluetooth on the website and there was no mention of the lack of drivers anywhere to be found

[–] PureTryOut@lemmy.kde.social -1 points 1 year ago

Pine64 is known for very shoddy software support and almost none of their devices have every bit of the hardware working on release, if any. A missing wifi driver is too be expected with them, not an exception.

[–] Boleano@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

IMO the most functional pine64 gadgets are the pinetime and pinebook pro, those you can daily drive. The phones are not ready yet, they are good devices to play with but I wouldn't use them as a daily driver, you could miss an important text or phone call and you want a reliable phone in case of an emergency. If you just want a cheap phone that doesn't spy on you I would get a 'dumb' phone.

[–] hanna@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 year ago

Be ready to flash your phone often if you do, but they can work well when they want to

[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you're only making phone calls and send texts then you can make do. Be sure to bring a power bank with you.

[–] butter@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

Or an extra battery. Their keyboard case has a battery built in, too. Iirc

[–] Joosl@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does anyone here know the status of gnome for phones? I'd like to do something like that but only when gnome's ready

[–] Fisch@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Sadly, there's rarely any information on that

[–] Janis@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

pine phone gave me no joy at all