11-12-2020, 07:39 AM
I am very aware. I am assuming though that the end goal is to have something usable by the general public (if they want.)
They probably wont want it though. The phone doesn't have the best battery life, the fastest processor, the most user friendly interface, the best call quality. Most end users will probably go with Samsung or Apple or any of the other manufacturers out there.
What the phone does have going for it though is pure Linux, being as open as possible, and privacy. At least if any software does spy on us it'll be the software we install ourselves. Not the phone manufacturers and not the carrier's bloatware they force the phone manufacturers to add on.
My point is that it seems like the best device for what I want, even if it isn't the best device. No one is ever going to make exactly what I would like and I doubt I'll ever be able to commission such an endeavor. I'd probably have to start my own company and go through the same headaches as Pine64, so many thanks to them for going through the effort.
The most I can do is nudge things in the direction that I'd like to see them go and hope for the best. Because I'd like to see them have a great device with some killer features that no other phone manufacturer is doing right now. One of those are the privacy kill switches on the back.
I hear the phone had/has some issues on T-Mobile. I'm considering switching carriers just so it'll work, even if it isn't perfect or takes some effort.
I'm also not in a huge hurry though. Even if my battery is slowly dying (2014 phone, it was a good run) I can stick a battery pack on it and just use it that way for the time being when it finally does completely fail. So I can wait for something more stable too. However it's also cheap enough that I don't really have to care, though yes, in the end I suppose I would like it to actually work too.
Sorry I wrote a novel to your one line comment. I'm still very excited about the project.
They probably wont want it though. The phone doesn't have the best battery life, the fastest processor, the most user friendly interface, the best call quality. Most end users will probably go with Samsung or Apple or any of the other manufacturers out there.
What the phone does have going for it though is pure Linux, being as open as possible, and privacy. At least if any software does spy on us it'll be the software we install ourselves. Not the phone manufacturers and not the carrier's bloatware they force the phone manufacturers to add on.
My point is that it seems like the best device for what I want, even if it isn't the best device. No one is ever going to make exactly what I would like and I doubt I'll ever be able to commission such an endeavor. I'd probably have to start my own company and go through the same headaches as Pine64, so many thanks to them for going through the effort.
The most I can do is nudge things in the direction that I'd like to see them go and hope for the best. Because I'd like to see them have a great device with some killer features that no other phone manufacturer is doing right now. One of those are the privacy kill switches on the back.
I hear the phone had/has some issues on T-Mobile. I'm considering switching carriers just so it'll work, even if it isn't perfect or takes some effort.
I'm also not in a huge hurry though. Even if my battery is slowly dying (2014 phone, it was a good run) I can stick a battery pack on it and just use it that way for the time being when it finally does completely fail. So I can wait for something more stable too. However it's also cheap enough that I don't really have to care, though yes, in the end I suppose I would like it to actually work too.
Sorry I wrote a novel to your one line comment. I'm still very excited about the project.