I want to switch from android phone to linux and i want to know which phone is closest to daily driver. I only need call sms and bluetooth to work and battery should last 1 day. also working map camera and web browser app would be great. for os i have thinked to use ubuntu touch or postmarket os. Phones what i have most interested Volla phone Pixel 3a Fairphone 4 Pinephone or pinephone pro Any thoughts or ideas

  • lemmeee@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    I forgot about the toggles under the PP cover, I didn’t know they acted as hardware kill switches like L5? Interesting for sure

    Yeah, they have the same purpose. They are just a little less convenient to use.

    x86 is a power suck but I still think it’s a interesting use case as it delivers on webpage rendering and demanding tasks. Ideally I would imagine RISCV would be the golden standard.

    I think the power efficiency of x86 is getting better lately, but still not good enough.

    I guess if I wanted to be puritan maybe starting with a Librem Mini with Secure boot might make a good frankenstein phone.

    It would probably be pretty big and power hungry. It seems that it uses Coreboot, which contains proprietary blobs. Most x86 devices need those.

    I won’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good until we are in a position to be choosers, until then its pretty much a community effort to get the whole thing off the ground.

    I hope some next phone will get a RYF certificate from the Free Software Foundation. That’s already a pretty high standard.

    BeepBerry was a really interesting concept but lacked the sophistication needed to take off.

    I could see a new iteration gaining ground

    https://beepy.sqfmi.com/

    I haven’t heard of it before, but I doubt that Raspberry PI can be the solution. Does it even run a mainline Linux kernel?