[kwlug-disc] Taking the Pine Phone plunge

[Paul Nijjar]

Stephen's presentation was pretty enlightening on this front. He has
been using a PinePhone as his main phone since July. 

- The battery life is not great for him (5 hours or so) but he is
  trapped inside so he does not care
- He does not use SMS or voice calls, but says that it is probably
  working for other people
- There are a couple of distros that are looking promising enough for
  nerds to use them, but are probably not consumer-ready yet. 
- There is a good amount of effort going into developing software for
  these Linux phones, which is encouraging.

I think some of the issue has to do with your definitions of "fully
fuctional" and "stable".

I am totally interested in Brent's impressions too. 

- Paul

On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 04:11:10PM -0500, Mark Steffen wrote:
> I'm interested to hear how this goes.� I'm using LineageOS on a generic
> mediatek phone, (de-googled) but I'd love to go Linux when it's fully
> functional and stable.� Also interested in a Pinebook Pro but they are out
> of stock right now.
> 
> --
> Mark Steffen | Mobile/Signal +1 226 600 0464
> __
> 
> On 2021-02-02 4:05 p.m., R. Brent Clements wrote:
> > So I missed the Feb meeting because calendars have no meaning anymore.�
> > I watched the archived video, and decided to order the 2G ram version.�
> > I need to pull the trigger on a new phone, and if I don't do this now, I
> > will end up dropping almost as much on a cheap Android phone.� So here
> > we go :-)
> > 
> > Brent
> > 
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