I don’t care if it’s fast, sexy or convenient. Is it, at a basic level, functional? I am willing to make sacrifices for freedom. It just needs to do text, calls and email (reasonably) reliably.
>>108482480Some good points, but poor choices instantly jump out to me.At least it has a microSD slot, but man "storage: 32GB eMMC" is really penny-pinching.No retarded notch or hole, but black lines on top and bottom wasting space instead of making these transparent, especially the one on the bottom which seems to be used only as a "back to desktop" button. And still the stupid ultrawide ratio.Also, how long will devices without the nasty id verification still be allowed to connect to the internet?
>>108482480I am also curious to know
>>108482480Is it actually shipping yet?
>>108482480It can record videos now (experimentally)
>>108482480>blob status?
>>108482480Alright so I've never tried the Librem but I did have the Pinephone (non-pro) which supposedly had one of the best hardware support among the FOSS phones (though the Librem 5 might be better, idk). Used it in various points in time during its development.Basically the Pinephone worked if you didn't touch it the entire day. It had suspend working but the only things that would wake it from suspend were SMS messages and calls, so no XMPP or Signal or Telegram (which all have Linux apps by the way) or Email unless you open the phone.The phone literally wasted like 1% of battery to wake up from sleep. Honestly the absolute worst thing about the Pinephone was the absolutely awful battery. I've had the battery case for it too that supposedly had its own huge battery in it, but never got it to work properly. The Librem 5 has a 4500mah battery, which is only 150% of the Pinephone's 3000mah battery, but honestly software is just not optimized for that kind of shit. I know Librem 5 has a company developing it, but the Pinephone had lots of gay FOSS zealots working on it for many years now and has supposedly reached its full potential regarding battery, which is fucking dogshit.If you need text, calls, and email reasonably reliably I'd argue Linux phones are fucking dogshit for now. Due to work I sometimes have to have phone calls 1 hour long or more. One call like that will drain the phone from 100-85 down to 25-30. The phone might let you know you have a message or call when it's suspended (I didn't have any missed calls or calls I didn't get notified about, it used to be a problem way back but it's completely fixed now), but that's worth fuck all because in order to answer the call, read the text, or read the emails (which you won't get notified about) you have to unsuspend the phone, which fucking drains the battery real fucking fast.cont.
>>108483292Now, you said you don't care if it's fast, sexy, or convenient. Obviously Linux phones aren't any of that, but that's actually an understatement.I mean, there's a difference between just being not necessarily fast/sexy/convenient, and being outright fucking retarded. I've tried Phosh (the Librem UI, designed by them), GNOME mobile, KDE Plasma Mobile, and SXMO (like a Unix tiling window manager, but for the phone).GNOME mobile was trash but I never expected it to be good. Plasma mobile was resource intensive and wasted battery but was very average in terms of usability.But Phosh, MY GOD MAN, FUCKING PHOSH HAS TO BE THE SHITTIEST PIECE OF SOFTWARE I'VE EVER USED IN MY LIFE. I don't even know where to fucking begin. From the fucking keyboard opening randomally covering the entire screen, to the way you close apps in multitasking (look it up on YouTube, and this matters because if you don't close apps in multitasking THEY WILL run in the background and eat your fucking battery, to how there's no fucking back button and going back to the previous screen depends on whether whoever wrote the program you're using made one. The UI is confusing and inconsistent and doing basic shit is like solving a puzzle (and remember, the more time you spend in the UI, the more your battery drains).Other than that, honestly, it's pretty fucking basic. Works for text and calls, battery is fucking awful. Also, pictures look so shit it's almost comical.Oh, and no idea about binary blobs. I think you need one only for the modem (for the Pinephone of course).Honestly, I'm currently researching the feasibility of making a simple phone with a Raspberry Pi (all of which can boot Linux almost with no blobs) or ESP32 (which is easy to work with, though not 100% libre) and some LTE SIM module. Haven't had much time to actually work on such a thing, but I feel that's the right direction. Linux phones are just a meme.Both the wife and I are using Graphene for now, just werks.
Can it run banking apps?
>>108482480>text, callsYes>emailIf you wake it up and let it syncOnce it enters suspend (for the sake of battery) it stops doing data, both over Wifi and cellular. Calls and texts trigger an interrupt over a dedicated pin of the modem so you get those immediately.
>>108483292>Honestly the absolute worst thing about the Pinephone was the absolutely awful batterI tried connecting it to a monitor with a usb hub and it drained the battery very fast even though it was connected to a charger as well. It's so hilariously bad. Also calling didn't really work for me or receiving calls. It did work at first but then broke and wifi broke as well. I received a replacement motherboard but that broke as well. Now my whole phone has broken. It also broke 3 sd cards in just one day of use.
