I am considering a pinephone but have a question first
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(01-03-2022, 02:04 PM)juanjose0719 Wrote: I don't know how Mobian is performing now (Jan 2022), I saw in some youtube videos you had to switch the view from vertical to horizontal...I just got a Pine64 w/ Manjaro...you don't have to do that switch, the screen is responsive...not as fast as an iPhone, but will organize by itself.

Mobian does switch automatically now (since several months actually). Probably a lot of other things would have changed as well since the video.

I agree that Mobian is probably best suited as a daily driver. As for the other points: Unfortunately, my experience is not quite as good as @bcnaz ':
-Geary, Firefox, Contacts, Calendar, Terminal, Text Editor, gPodder, Lollypop and many other applications work fine.
-Calls do work, but my modem (and not only mine) keeps crashing quite often (which in effect means that I am unavailable till I notice that it has happened again and restart the phone).
-SMS has some quirks (text messages with more than 140 characters don't get sent on my phone etc; other users have reported problems sending or receiving messages)
-Mobile data connection mostly does not work on my phone (even when the modem has not crashed); sometimes (mabye 50/50) a restart helps.
-the Signal client works erratically

I have been using the Pinephone with Mobian as a daily driver for almost a year now, but presently I am not sure how long I will be able to do that unless I find a solution for the dropping modem and the unreliable data connections (and I am less and less confident I will).
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RE: I am considering a pinephone but have a question first - by Anna - 01-04-2022, 05:05 AM

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