[kwlug-disc] Modern phone(s) to run Mobian, not Android

Mark Steffen mark at steffen.ca
Wed Apr 16 09:08:19 EDT 2025


Interested to hear this as well. I tried the Pinephone and Pinephone 2 
and gave up, nowhere near "daily driver" for battery life or general 
performance. Went for Graphene OS which is pretty good.

Mark

On 2025-04-16 8:25 a.m., CrankyOldBugger wrote:
> I didn't follow the discussions about the email issues last week too 
> closely, but why are all of my emails from KWLUG now showing numbers 
> at the end of each line?  eg. "sanely flashed=20" from the first line 
> of Mikalai's recent email.
>
> On Tue, 15 Apr 2025 at 21:55, Mikalai Birukou via kwlug-disc 
> <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:
>
>     What is the most powerful phone have you seen that can be sanely
>     flashed=20
>     with Mobian?
>
>     Context:
>
>     In light of upcoming presentation with Raspberry Pi, we tried to
>     run=20
>     PrivacySafe on Raspberry. In does, but slow, as current platform
>     uses=20
>     electron. This naturally unspirals further.
>
>     I managed to bring up my PinePhone, and apps open, yet, current=20
>     electron's nature is a bit heavy for starting. By the way, can
>     report=20
>     messages via 4G, sending and being notified of new ones (WebSocket
>     at=20
>     the moment).
>
>     PinePhone is easy "not afraid to flash" thing. It'd be lovely to
>     have=20
>     more powerful device with the aim to run Mobian with PrivacySafe,
>     at=20
>     least for showing off.
>
>
>
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