20 Nov
2022
20 Nov
'22
7:51 a.m.
On Sunday 20 November 2022 00.46:29 deloptes wrote:
I read many months ago about the Pine Phone and was
not convinced in anyway
that it is useful either. Let me know what is your experience and share
some use cases. For example can you sync data, how the usual features work,
calendar, alarms, sms, e-mail clients etc.
I'd be happy to share, but you seem to be a much heavier phone user than I
am :)
I don't think many (if any) "linux application for phone" have been writen,
so
you mostly have to rely on apps that were not inteded to be used on a phone
(or a tiny screen, or a vertical screen).
As far as I undestand, Pine's idea is that no one will write these
applpications as long as there is no hardware, so they try to provide that
hardware. The software still has to be created.
How does it behave in a car - can you connect and use
the phone (HFP)?
Sorry, don't know what HFP means (english is not my mother tongue). Hand free
maybe? There is bluetooth but I never tried to connect in a car (only use it
with a special app to control charging...). I'll take a look.
can you encrypt the filesystem?
I guess this will depend on the system. Never tried it with android either, I
have no secrets on my phone...
which ECO systems are available?
Not sure what you mean. Some linux-for-phone systems are based on regular
distributions, such as Mobian - Debian. Some GUIs are based on KDE. But I did
not have the feeling that there was a real integration at this point.
Can you use clients such as Signal, WhatsApp, Firefox?
Firefox sure. Does Signal have a Linux version? AFAIK WhatsApp is IOS/Android
only (but as I use neither this in only hearsay).
I must say I'm rather a phone hater - I use my Android as a PDA (alarm, short
notes, Kindle), parking paying and - when I absolutely have to - phoning. I
usually have phone costs (all included) of less then $5 a month...
Thierry