Thoughts?

  • maynarkh@feddit.nl
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    1 year ago

    I still think that open standards would better enable long-term support than more effective vertical integration.

    We need an open source smartphone.

      • highduc@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        Would be great if it would actually be usable.

        From what I’ve read from people owning it it’s unfit for any purpose at the moment and very few people actually use it as their main phone.

        Pine64’s model of “we build the hardware, the community builds the software” doesn’t seem to be working very well unfortunately.

        • Sam@lemmy.ca
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          1 year ago

          Its not even software issues (I mean the software is still very early, but improving), the pinephone hardware is ridiculously underpowered while simultaneously drawing too much power.

          The Pro fixes the underpowered issue, but gives you a couple hours of screen-on time. At first I was hopeful software updates would fix the battery life, but the same operating system (postmarketos) gives me a full day of use on my other phone (oneplus6). That leads me to believe it’s largely a hardware issue.

          I hope I’m wrong. \o/