Comment on What Phone do you guys use?
spacemanspiffy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Librem 5.
Cons: Storage and RAM small.
Pros: I haven’t seen a single other phone I would rather own. Android and iOS are dumb as hell. Terrible OSes, in my opinion.
I want a Liberty Phone but can’t justify the money. This works well enough for me. I will almost certainly be buying the L5 successor.
favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 23 hours ago
How does it do as a daily driver? You can do banking? Run random Android apps, etc?
spacemanspiffy@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Nope.
Well, I don’t use any banking apps, personally. My understanding is that they don’t work under Waydroid.
Other Android apps mostly work fine in Waydroid, so long as they don’t need access to GPS or camera to work properly.
I removed Waydroid a while back, though, as I only needed it for one app and Waydroid took up almost 1/3 of the storage on the phone. It just wasn’t worth it, and I am happier to be rid of the Android ecosystem anyways.
I should mention that the Linux phone life is NOT for everyone.
I should also mention that battery life is still not anywhere close to competitors. Camera is meh but improves with updates.
For my use cases (Phone/SMS/MMS, Lemmy, Mastodon, and a few other apps), it works totally fine and has proven to be reliable enough for almost 3 years. It gets better with age due to updates.