[kwlug-disc] PinePhone woes

R. Brent Clements rbclemen at gmail.com
Tue Nov 2 13:07:55 EDT 2021


I had originally played around with a number of the distros in the
multi-boot image.  My favourite by far is the Ubuntu Touch based UBPorts.
By far the most elegant UI for a phone I have ever seen.  However, most of
the phone's functionality hadn't been implemented yet.  Several others are
more functional, but less convenient to use.  It is getting better.  I
downloaded a newer multiboot image and there was definite improvements.  I
still need a reliable phone for daily use, and there are a couple apps I do
use that I would need an android phone for.

Brent

On Tue, 2 Nov 2021 at 08:39, Mark Steffen <mark at steffen.ca> wrote:

> I received the Manjaro edition a few months ago, it is definitely not
> usable for a daily driver.  My use case was to use the built in LTE
> modem, attach the dongle, and use it to run Zabbix to monitor things and
> send alerts via SMS over the LTE modem.  It does seem to work ok for
> that, though I had to do a custom Zabbix build as there were no aarch64
> packages available.  Only issue was the dongle connector/USB-C port seem
> a bit finicky.
>
> For now I use a lineage fork for my daily driver.
>
> Mark
>
> On 2021-11-02 2:32 a.m., Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc wrote:
> > At the beginning of his presentation, Brent suggested that the
> > PinePhone was not living up to its promise as a phone. What have the
> > deficiencies been?
> >
> > Is anybody using a PinePhone as a phone successfully.
> >
> > - Paul
>
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