Isn’t oneplus 6 a phone from
2018???
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exu@feditown.com 8 hours agoAFAIK Faiphone 4/5 and OnePlus 6 are in a very good state on PostmarketOS and continually improving. I don’t think it’s unrealistic to say we’ll have fully working devices in half a year - year with the amount of progress that’s happened since the PinePhone and was boosted again by the original Google announcement.
jnod4@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
cecilkorik@piefed.ca 1 hour ago
It's almost like technology doesn't actually need to be a conveyor belt of spending thousands of dollars on new products that turn into literal e-waste after a year or two. The money-printing treadmill for these trillion dollar corporations would be in immediate jeopardy!
Imagine! Using an old device that still works and performs all its functions perfectly! You'd have to be completely nuts!
/s
hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 8 hours ago
it is, but SD845 is still pretty fast
balsoft@lemmy.ml 8 hours ago
Nothing wrong with it, if you just use it for music listening/youtube/light browsing/satnav/messaging, snapdragon845 is more than enough. Probably not too good for gaming and stuff.
DrDystopia@lemy.lol 3 hours ago
Having no call audio on FP5 is a dealbreaker to me, but if it’s only 4g/5g calls and BT audio and mic works I’ll gladly use IP comms only. Need to dive a bit deeper I suppose, and the incentive will come from Google.
leftascenter@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 8 hours ago
Look at furios’s phones. They seem yo work.
balsoft@lemmy.ml 8 hours ago
Fairphones are probably not daily-able for now, sadly. E.g. on FP4 GPS doesn’t work at all and there are issues with charging/battery reporting AFAIR. OnePlus 6 is definitely more promising ATM, but there are camera issues and you need to do a weird reflashing dance to get GPS to work. Otherwise it’s… passable as a daily phone.
cyberwolfie@lemmy.ml 7 hours ago
Battery fuel guage is almost ready for FP4 at least:
fosstodon.org/@z3ntu/115435804332775702
And there has been recent successes by the same guy (employed at Fairphone) on getting cameras working (main post of the thread linked above).
These are recent improvements, and I really hope they can solve the audio stability and GPS stuff so I can move. Thinking of trying out Ubuntu Touch before a mainline distro is ready.
balsoft@lemmy.ml 7 hours ago
Ooh, cool! Might be my new phone when the current one cacks or Android becomes completely unusable.