Yesterday, 03:56 AM
I also miss a wired keyboard for the Pinephone. I invested a lot of time in installing LibreOffice on the Pinephone:
https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=16614
The following video shows that LibreOffice on the Pinephone is usable:
https://youtu.be/BWk2Z2HjT7U
And to be usable, a Pinephone keyboard is necessary. The problem with the Pinephone seems to be the community. After a Pinephone hipe, there seem to be only some posters left every now and then.
I am looking since a long time in a professional solution for Office applications and a smartphone. The Pinephone with a keyboard and LibreOffice would be great, if there would be a community.
Softmaker Office for Android has a support forum and a community. So I have left the Pinephone, and use now Softmaker for Android with this keyboard:
https://de.aliexpress.com/item/329921475...pt=glo2deu
It is a bit large. But with this usb-c adapter:
https://de.aliexpress.com/item/100500332...pt=glo2deu
A google Pixel 6 Pro can do what I wanted to do with the Pinephone. The above usb-c adapter works suprisingly good with the Google Pixel Pro.
- charging works
- mini SD card reader works
- a mini SD card reader plugged into the usb 3 adapter can be used to write on it with the phone.
- ethernet works over the above adapter.
So with this equipment, I can do with my Pixel 6 Pro what I wanted to do with the Pinephone.
I would also prefer the Pinephone with LibreOffice and the Pinephone adapter. But hardly anyone seems to use it. There seems to be no community. And without community, there is now developement.
I hated going back to an Android phone, since it so strongly controlled. And I am also looking for an alternative. But I don t believe my future device will be a Pinephone.
I think it is rather a Raspberry Pi zero 2 w, as soon as there is more ram. The software support for Raspberry Pi s is much better than for the Pinephone. The Pinephone has many distros. But is the Pinephone more than a demo device? Rasbperry Pi s are more than demo devices. Altough I hate Raspberry Pi s, too. But I think the future will be rather to build your own device based on single board computers, than based on a (dead?) Pinephone.
https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=16614
The following video shows that LibreOffice on the Pinephone is usable:
https://youtu.be/BWk2Z2HjT7U
And to be usable, a Pinephone keyboard is necessary. The problem with the Pinephone seems to be the community. After a Pinephone hipe, there seem to be only some posters left every now and then.
I am looking since a long time in a professional solution for Office applications and a smartphone. The Pinephone with a keyboard and LibreOffice would be great, if there would be a community.
Softmaker Office for Android has a support forum and a community. So I have left the Pinephone, and use now Softmaker for Android with this keyboard:
https://de.aliexpress.com/item/329921475...pt=glo2deu
It is a bit large. But with this usb-c adapter:
https://de.aliexpress.com/item/100500332...pt=glo2deu
A google Pixel 6 Pro can do what I wanted to do with the Pinephone. The above usb-c adapter works suprisingly good with the Google Pixel Pro.
- charging works
- mini SD card reader works
- a mini SD card reader plugged into the usb 3 adapter can be used to write on it with the phone.
- ethernet works over the above adapter.
So with this equipment, I can do with my Pixel 6 Pro what I wanted to do with the Pinephone.
I would also prefer the Pinephone with LibreOffice and the Pinephone adapter. But hardly anyone seems to use it. There seems to be no community. And without community, there is now developement.
I hated going back to an Android phone, since it so strongly controlled. And I am also looking for an alternative. But I don t believe my future device will be a Pinephone.
I think it is rather a Raspberry Pi zero 2 w, as soon as there is more ram. The software support for Raspberry Pi s is much better than for the Pinephone. The Pinephone has many distros. But is the Pinephone more than a demo device? Rasbperry Pi s are more than demo devices. Altough I hate Raspberry Pi s, too. But I think the future will be rather to build your own device based on single board computers, than based on a (dead?) Pinephone.
