I was going through Pine64’s page again after I found the latest KDE announcement. With that said, I seem to see a lot of issues with firmware on the Pine, whilst the Librem is just plain out of budget for me. Was interested in how many people here run a Linux mobile as a daily driver, and how has your experience been?

I’m considering purchasing the Pine but I’d like a better screen, more RAM and a better CPU. Don’t know if I should wait for a new model to be released (are they even planning to do that? Is the company active?). I will only really use it to browse the Web, and might even look to desolder a couple of parts that I know I won’t use.

Thanks.

Edit: I am willing to watch content and use banking apps from the browser. Do you think it’ll be fit for me?

Edit 2: overall, I am much saddened about the state of affairs regarding private computing on the go. I desperately hope that Linux on mobile takes off, even though its incubation looks disheartening at the moment. Thank you everyone for your comments.

  • trivial_wannabe@lemmy.world
    23·
    1 year ago

    I used a pinephone as my daily driver for about a month. Importantly, this was 3~4 years ago, things could be better now.

    My take at the time: The battery life was bad, the phone was slow, MMS did not work, making a receiving calls was iffy at best.

    I really really hope this improves/has improved over time. Android gets more and more difficult to de-google. A linux phone would solve a lot of privacy issues (not all, but some)

    • MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.worldOP
      3·
      1 year ago

      I hope so too. However, that doesn’t seem to be the case. The PinePhone Pro is still treated as a development device by PostmarketOS, for example

    • Pantherina@feddit.de
      41·
      1 year ago

      It sucks that GrapheneOS supports only Pixels and nobody came along and ported it to other devices, although less secure.

      But “Android gets harder to degoogle” is not true. Pixels are just way too expensive

      • MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.worldOP
        4·
        1 year ago

        I’m waiting for devices to get the 5.10 kernel or the ones after it, so I can run supported KernelSU builds and take my life into my own hands.

      • helenslunch@feddit.nl
        3·
        1 year ago

        Pixels are just way too expensive

        LOL what? The A series are some of the cheapest modern phones you can buy, and an incredible value…

        • Pantherina@feddit.de
          21·
          1 year ago

          Yup then that is pretty messed up. I was used to phones not costing over 200€, maybe 300

          • helenslunch@feddit.nl
            3·
            1 year ago

            The only phones that cost that much are either several years old (in which case you can include used Pixels) or are riddled with bloatware and spyware and the absolute cheapest of materials that won’t last long enough to make buying it even make any financial sense.

            • MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.worldOP
              3·
              1 year ago

              And the commenter is lamenting how greedy companies are getting and customers agreeing to get themselves bent for these corporations. Apple started the pricing model and Samsung followed suit, and now everyone just takes it as default pricing. This is a pathetic state of affairs

              • helenslunch@feddit.nl
                1·
                1 year ago

                and now everyone just takes it as default pricing.

                Who does that? There are several great phones you can buy for <$400. The phones of yore were trash.

            • Pantherina@feddit.de
              1·
              1 year ago

              Nokia 7plus back then. Great hardware, nice materials. Still working great but nearly no software updates. An indian guy develops LineageOS for Nokia phones though