05-16-2023, 05:47 AM
(05-14-2023, 02:32 PM)alpineduck Wrote: The camera is functional but images are really poor quality.
The flashlight is fine.
Battery life is poor compared to most phones but enough for me for two days of moderate use.
I don't use group messaging, MMS or Bluetooth so I can't tell about these.
I concur with the most, including a tough episode with Mobian, except that I'm on Manjaro/Phosh.
Now about the camera, there's a lengthy thread about it - let's just say that I'm quite satisfied with it. It's nowhere near what you get from 600$ phones, but for this price, it's solid. One last glitch, the so-called flash doesn't sync with the shutter. Want flash? Turn the flashlight on, take a shot, turn off. I'm doing photography for 55 years now, and the Pine's camera is a nice toy, fun to play with and most of the time I like the results.
GPS I managed to get to work for a while, it's needs a python script (which I also found on this forum). Now with the version of the OS I installed, that script is missing a few modules, so it doesn't run, and since I don't really use GPS, I didn't bother to make it work.
Sound reproduction on the outer speaker is amazingly good - I had to listen to some people playing music on their Samsungs and whatnot, which was awful, eardrum piercing. On Pine, it's smooth.
Ditto for the microphone. I've used it the PP as a sound recorder on multiple occasions, and it's even a notch better than the near perfect Nokia I used before.
Telegram works fine for messaging, even voice, and it reproduces incoming video nicely; sending video will freeze your phone, don't even try.