Submitted 1 day ago by Imaginary_Stand4909@lemmy.blahaj.zone to technology@lemmy.world
cross-posted from: lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/39351554
Samtime tries out a Fairphone 6 running Ubuntu Touch and it seemed pretty fine. Noted issues were the second camera not working, GPS/Map app being a bit weird, and imo, the screen showing all the apps you have open is terrible. But with the reg app store and waydroid, I think it could be almost managable to use.
My mom is a battery life fiend though, so that part she won’t let go of. What’s your thoughts?
it could be almost managable to use.
That was my take away last time I tried Sailfish OS. It mostly worked but there were some issues that were just too hard to ignore. For me the problem with a phone is that it’s for short but very frequent interactions. When there’s friction it becomes very annoying very fast. I don’t want it to almost do everything, I need to do very specific things well.
A shame Fairphone doesn’t have a headphone jack. IMO that contradicts the sustainability aspect of the phonea
Headphone jack is ewaste at this point. I know all the people here still cling to them because they brought a pair of $50 earphones 15 years ago. But all wired earphones have been usbc for over a decade and most people have wireless ones.
Headphone jack crew, unite!
How is that?
Think Bluetooth earphone battery waste
No idea who this guy is, but that was a hilarious video. Heaps of little jabs to highlight some of the very real weirdness of it all, but a decent enough demo to show that it all does intact work.
All of his videos are like that.
The one that sticks with me is Apple Glarse, his renaming of their Glass UI design.
I am seriously considering going to a Linux phone at some point in the future because what’s to stop Google from deciding that we can’t install apps even on AOSP? Like sure, for now it’s only going to be devices with Google Play services that won’t allow you to install your own apps, but who’s to say Android 19 won’t be released and completely kill the ability to install apps outside of the Play Store?
I have a OnePlus Nord N10 5G I picked up to play with Ubuntu Touch.
Now that VoLTE works I can actually make and receive calls which makes it nearly usable.
I wish RCS could work but that may be out of their hands. Group texts (MMS) don’t work either unfortunately.
It’s close to usable but still not ready for me personally.
I did contribute to Ubuntu Touch though by adding Colemak keyboard layout support and they accepted my pull request :D
RCS has no documentation on how to be implemented… Thank you for the contribution btw
Cool! I’ve got the N100, and experience is similar. I’m trying to build up some motivation to use it daily for a while.
Good on you for the development work, and congrats on you accepted pull!
Nice. Similar, I got the N100 off the bay to give a try. VoLTE now works good in USA with Tello /Tmobile, at least in my area, that was certainly a show stopper for some time, huge win!
Got OpenVPN working, uWolf runnng my NextDNS so can filter/watch the logs, MMS has some issues, no RCS as you mention.
As you say, not quite there, but good progress overall. Hope for continued progress, and love to see the many more posts on it than ever before!
Using a privacy focused Android phone project for now, but long term the real answer is Linux or some other new project to tear away completely from Bigtechs dependency & stranglehold. Thanks for your adding development to the cause!
I do have a PinePhone a mate gave me a while back; no matter what OS you use on it it’s sooo slow. Weirdly, the Android port actually seemed the most usable…
Now I realise that the PinePhone isn’t exactly a phone you’re meant to daily drive, but even then the performance is terrrible.
He says it’s Fairphone 4 on the video.
Yeah, my brain dumb. Edited the original post to say 4.
As soon as my phone dies, i will jump into a linux phone
It’s time, y’all!
linule@lemmy.world 1 day ago
They need funding. Some people, countries and unions have an increased interest in tech independence.
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
For anyone reading thus, please consider donating to PostmarketOS or Mobian if you have the means, as it will help us escape the Android ecosystem which is getting more and more anti-user due to google controlling it.
mesamunefire@piefed.social 19 hours ago
I would pay for a company to come out with one of these pre-loaded onto a Fairphone. Seriously.
Lumisal@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The problem with PostmarketOS is that it only is stable on extremely old phones that sometimes aren’t even midrange.
linule@lemmy.world 1 day ago
What’s the pitch here? Initial impression is that it makes the ecosystem fragmented, as now (along with Ubuntu Touch), people have at least 3 different projects to fund. There needs to be a core standard that unifies the efforts and funding.
jabjoe@feddit.uk 22 hours ago
It’s not just a tech issue. Funding tech dev is great, but there is a political problem.
We need to vote for politicians who get the need for competition and will fight vendor lockin. Who will ensure things that are needed to do stuff isn’t done only for the duopoly.
We need to support groups fighting bad politicians and getting into media to inform normal people. Who make legal fights. EFF, OpenRghtGroup, etc.