| Will you use the PinePhone as not a phone? | |||
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| No | 4 | ||
| what's the point of it being a phone then | 1 | ||
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Show me your "portable" PinePhone Pro setup!
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I'll go first.
Here is my phonputer, it runs Arch Linux ARM and use Sway (not sxmo) as the environment. It is designed to require a keyboard for function. https://imgur.com/a/th8HkTG
Find me in the forest, when I'm at my lowest. I don't really think you should continue..
HOLD YOUR BREATH. 
03-11-2022, 12:15 AM
I'm using my Pro as a mini laptop with the keyboard case. Still works for calls and texts but I mainly use my phone for browsing and chatting so the keyboard is awesome. Running GNOME shell at 100% scaling and can even multitask pretty well.
03-11-2022, 01:37 AM
(03-11-2022, 12:15 AM)CalcProgrammer1 Wrote: I'm using my Pro as a mini laptop with the keyboard case. Still works for calls and texts but I mainly use my phone for browsing and chatting so the keyboard is awesome. Running GNOME shell at 100% scaling and can even multitask pretty well. That's really nice. I wish the Pro has a 1080p display.. 
Find me in the forest, when I'm at my lowest. I don't really think you should continue..
HOLD YOUR BREATH. 
As we are going to travel the world by bicycle and I am a Linux geek,
I want to use my PinePhonePro as a mini laptop to do all sort of stuff: From navigation, to surfing the web, to edit photos or movies, write blogs, code some websites, doing graphic designs, hacking some other stuff together, paying bills, doing presentations..... To be able to receive sms is quite nice for online banking and 2-fa logins, but in my opinion there should be much more focus on working convergence, since this is the real killer feature...  Taking a real laptop with a power-supply and a world power adaptor is a no go, too heavy, too big and it will be broken after a few weeks in rough conditions... BTW. Yesterday I tried to produce a convergence promo movie for the ppp only using the ppp and a op6 with ubports as a camera. Sadly there are a few simple tools missing to do so (but I got quite far!!!), I will try again as soon as some stuff gets fixed: - window borders to resize, move programs - screenshot function for the convergence monitor (this is essential) - running krita on kde (gimp works, krita needs to be built against qt5-es2) - longer battery life (it somehow does not really charge in convergence...)
Id love to show my setup for the PPP, but its not functional yet.... I did the buy the hardware and prey the software would work, but alas in no mans land with it at the moment....
Hardware, PPP-EE and Uperfect X LapDock (almost the same as Nexdock 360) hoping that Magi's notes on USB-C Alt mode DP will get some people to head in the right direction https://xnux.eu/log/#063 A nice thing would be in the top of the display if you could toggle on a watts meter so that when using differing software one could get a sense of the power usage as there is plenty of black holes for power usage.... |
