02-07-2020, 08:43 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-07-2020, 10:07 PM by pjsf.
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I've had the phone for two days now. Build quality, size and weight are just as unexpectedly good as the pinebook pro. Not at all as thick as I was expecting. I'm a bit worried about the durability of the back cover, given how often I'm swapping sd cards, but no problems yet.
The battery fit on mine is quite tight meaning I have to use a fingernail to pull it out, this has already lead to the battery covering starting to lift a little - not a problem but a bit messy, would be made better by having one of those battery removal ribbon things, that used to be more common.
The Sim slot really is a bit tight - I'm using a nano sim (from my old phone) in a commercial micro sim adapter and it really is a tight fit, to the point I worry about breaking it, so I'm not doing any sim swapping at the moment.
Tried a number of distros:
Ubports: nice looking and quite snappy, plenty of features
postmarket with plasma. plenty of features but plasma feels quite unresponsive.
postmarket with phosh, wow! really attractive snappy interface but not much in the way of working software, gnome-terminal is a useful addition, I'll probably be looking a lot more at this one when I've finished experimenting.
Manjaro with plasma, coming along nicely, but plasma is not winning me over .
Sailfish, got hit by the blank screen problem, it also seems to have done something to the emmc, I no longer can use the built in test os, and when I power on the phone with the usual long press of the power button it seems to try to start from the emmc even with an sd card inserted. I don't know if it's documented anywhere but holding down volume up and the doing a long power press seems to force boot from the SD again, which might be useful for some people.
That's where I'm up to so far - off now to bang my head against Sailfish for a bit longer.
Edit: Thanks to Prophentes in the forums Sailfish is up and running, it's incredibly beautiful, and quite performant, I'm worried I'm not good enough for it.
The battery fit on mine is quite tight meaning I have to use a fingernail to pull it out, this has already lead to the battery covering starting to lift a little - not a problem but a bit messy, would be made better by having one of those battery removal ribbon things, that used to be more common.
The Sim slot really is a bit tight - I'm using a nano sim (from my old phone) in a commercial micro sim adapter and it really is a tight fit, to the point I worry about breaking it, so I'm not doing any sim swapping at the moment.
Tried a number of distros:
Ubports: nice looking and quite snappy, plenty of features
postmarket with plasma. plenty of features but plasma feels quite unresponsive.
postmarket with phosh, wow! really attractive snappy interface but not much in the way of working software, gnome-terminal is a useful addition, I'll probably be looking a lot more at this one when I've finished experimenting.
Manjaro with plasma, coming along nicely, but plasma is not winning me over .
Sailfish, got hit by the blank screen problem, it also seems to have done something to the emmc, I no longer can use the built in test os, and when I power on the phone with the usual long press of the power button it seems to try to start from the emmc even with an sd card inserted. I don't know if it's documented anywhere but holding down volume up and the doing a long power press seems to force boot from the SD again, which might be useful for some people.
That's where I'm up to so far - off now to bang my head against Sailfish for a bit longer.
Edit: Thanks to Prophentes in the forums Sailfish is up and running, it's incredibly beautiful, and quite performant, I'm worried I'm not good enough for it.
