Finally got mine this morning after a missed delivery (East-ish coast US)!
Spent all morning trying different UI options with PostmarketOS and UBTouch:
* Phosh feels the snappiest, but no launch indicator
* Plasma at least indicates app is launching
* Frequently applications fail to launch for a 2nd time: Still investigating
UBTouch is by far the smoothest, but it feels kind of like a "Chromebook": I know there's Linux underneath, but it's pretty well hidden beneath the fancy UI.
Between PmOS and UBT, I'm rooting for PmOS as the apps are more/less unmodified GTK, while most of the UBT appear to be built specifically for UBT.
As for the hardware:
* Bigger than I realized, but not huge
* Back cover is really hard to remove: Worried about repeated removals, but so far seems to be ok.
* Screen is beautiful: Text is clear and easy to read, plenty of room while browsing sites
* App loading is sluggish, haven't tried eMMC yet
* Pages are slow in browser (eMMC? CPU?) but very reasonable for an early-adopter $150 device
* As a long-time android user, I really miss having dedicated "home/back/switcher" buttons (even considering this is usually a "soft" feature of modern devices)
As soon as GSM/LTE is confirmed, I'll be trying to make this my daily-co-driver next to my Android phone. For now it'll be my couch-surfer :-)
Spent all morning trying different UI options with PostmarketOS and UBTouch:
* Phosh feels the snappiest, but no launch indicator
* Plasma at least indicates app is launching
* Frequently applications fail to launch for a 2nd time: Still investigating
UBTouch is by far the smoothest, but it feels kind of like a "Chromebook": I know there's Linux underneath, but it's pretty well hidden beneath the fancy UI.
Between PmOS and UBT, I'm rooting for PmOS as the apps are more/less unmodified GTK, while most of the UBT appear to be built specifically for UBT.
As for the hardware:
* Bigger than I realized, but not huge
* Back cover is really hard to remove: Worried about repeated removals, but so far seems to be ok.
* Screen is beautiful: Text is clear and easy to read, plenty of room while browsing sites
* App loading is sluggish, haven't tried eMMC yet
* Pages are slow in browser (eMMC? CPU?) but very reasonable for an early-adopter $150 device
* As a long-time android user, I really miss having dedicated "home/back/switcher" buttons (even considering this is usually a "soft" feature of modern devices)
As soon as GSM/LTE is confirmed, I'll be trying to make this my daily-co-driver next to my Android phone. For now it'll be my couch-surfer :-)
