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• Reygle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  As an owner of an old pine phone, I can confidently say avoid for now. Not remotely ready or reliable enough.

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I just want something to have decent Linux support. I want to run postmarketOS, mobian, or something of that ilk on my phone, and I want all the basic phone features to work properly:

    • battery - phone should sleep and wake properly so I can get a full day’s use out between charging
    • modem - calls, SMS, MMS, data, etc should all work consistently
    • wifi/bluetooth - should be reliable and something I don’t notice
    • audio - speaker and mic should be sufficiently good and reliable

    And so on. I don’t need any special app support, I just need the phone to be able to reliably do phone things.

    Here are issues I’ve heard about from the PinePhone (Pro):

    • battery - well short of a full day, though OG PinePhone is much closer than PinePhone Pro
    • calls - I think this is okay now?
    • SMS/MMS - the best solution I’ve seen is to hook up an MMS bridge to Matrix, upload everything there, then download; that’s ridiculous
    • wifi/bluetooth - I think it’s okay? Honestly, it’s not something I’ve bothered to check up on
    • audio - I’ve heard audio quality sucks, both on the mic and the speaker

    That doesn’t get into actual usability issues. I’m honestly pretty tolerant of a laggy interface, but I need those basic phone functions to work properly.

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    • LoveSausage@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I know that pmos have a pixel 3a port , have been looking into that but not installed yet.

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Looks like a lot of “Partial” support. Some concerns:

        • volume cannot be applied in software
        • On v24.12, the current is limited to 1 Amp and there is no thermal mitigation for charging.

        Maybe it’s fine? Idk.

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