Smartphones

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The phone is slightly intriguing - 500 bucks for a made in America phone with some flagship level specs (although the SOC isn't listed) and it actually has a headphone jack and sd card slot. I wonder what company actually designed and is building this thing. I can't tell if you can buy it unlocked or if the price is so low because it's baked in to a contract - looks to be the latter. With all the crap the Trump organization hocks, probably best to avoid.

I got my pinephone today. It is a bit rough around the edges but we made a successful test call with it.

It is running some kind of kde plasma and I think manjaro. This is on the emmc. I think I might try arch on a microSD card.

One short 10ish minute call dropped the battery 20%, so the battery is not great.

I didn't get a charger with it, so I'm using the old flip phone charger. It comes with a cool little hub bar that can take usbc power and has hdmi out and 2 regular usb for mouse and keyboard. I'll be usin that tomorrow to work on it.

Kharzette said:

I got my pinephone today. It is a bit rough around the edges but we made a successful test call with it.

It is running some kind of kde plasma and I think manjaro. This is on the emmc. I think I might try arch on a microSD card.

One short 10ish minute call dropped the battery 20%, so the battery is not great.

I didn't get a charger with it, so I'm using the old flip phone charger. It comes with a cool little hub bar that can take usbc power and has hdmi out and 2 regular usb for mouse and keyboard. I'll be usin that tomorrow to work on it.

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I dont know what a pinephone is? Without me googling it, can you give us the run down?

Daidraco said:

I dont know what a pinephone is? Without me googling it, can you give us the run down?

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It is a fully open phone you can install whatever you want on.

Since above I've put a different OS on a miniSD and have been booting that to see if I like it. It is arch with phosh or something like that? I like it alot more than plasma.

Some of the apps are gnome based and I was really expecting more command line support. Figured I could put all her contacts in via ssh, and I did eventually but it was a pain. Had to create a fake vcf or something file to import them.

The only downside so far is my mum got a call this morning and answered it, and the process just froze. It wasn't systemwide, I could still ssh in and do stuff, so I think it was just the phone app itself. Hopefully that's a rare problem.