Recently purchased the Manjaro Community Edition phone (3/32GB Convergence pkg). Out of the box it had problems w/ the update repos and voice call quality was terrible, so I flashed Manjaro/Phosh Beta4 to the emmc and am using that as the current base.
Manjaro Phosh Beta 4:
-Voice Calling: Working pretty well. Audio quality is much improved over previous versions.
-SMS: Working great. No MMS support,
-Contacts: Haven't used much. Adding a test contact worked well.
-Terminal: Works great.
-Firefox: Seems to be working well. Only issue so far is difficulty switching out of full-screen mode.
-Notepad: Trying to save-as fails and starts doing really weird stuff in the file selector and creates a dialog loop. (this issue seems to occur in other apps when they request a filename input). Normal editing and saving of existing documents works well.
-Nemo: Navigates, creates folders, creates blank documents. Text documents and images open in correct apps. Seems to work.
-Maps: Basemaps and satellite overlays render well. Haven't used navigation on the road, but position indicator seems to consistently appear a couple hundred yards from the device's actual location.
-MegaPixels: Some issues. When first loading, the main camera is selected and display appears monochromatic. Trying to take a picture in this state will cause the app to freeze. The selfie camera takes pictures as expected. Switching to the selfie camera and then back to the the main camera results in a long pause after which the main camera initializes correctly. Once this occurs, the program seems to work as expected; but when re-running the app after closing it the camera takes quite a long time to initialize after the app itself loads. Image preview button does not work. Folder view button works. (The issues w/ main camera appeared in Beta 3, the app works better in Beta 2)
-ImageViewer: Doesn't initially launch in the pictures directory and there doesn't appear to be a way to set the default location. Viewing a picture file with Nemo launches Image Viewer to show the image and also displays contents of the directory containing the selected image. Image rotate works well.
-Sound Recorder: Records and saves audio files. The "open" file button does not appear unless there is an audio file present and selected. The "open" file button doesn't work; the file selector behaves much like notepad. The "delete" button briefly pops up a confirmation dialog which appears to automatically select "OK" and then proceeds to immediately delete the file.
-Software: No problems browsing the list of available software. System update alerts are issued and the automated system update process seems to work well.
Random Observations: Overall, the system seems quite stable. The Phosh UI takes a bit of getting used to; Plasma is initially more intuitive. The soft keyboard seems to be missing a way to generate "F" key output (F1-F12). Also, as a system feature, auto-rotate would be very nice but seems to be missing.
Manjaro Phosh Beta 4:
-Voice Calling: Working pretty well. Audio quality is much improved over previous versions.
-SMS: Working great. No MMS support,
-Contacts: Haven't used much. Adding a test contact worked well.
-Terminal: Works great.
-Firefox: Seems to be working well. Only issue so far is difficulty switching out of full-screen mode.
-Notepad: Trying to save-as fails and starts doing really weird stuff in the file selector and creates a dialog loop. (this issue seems to occur in other apps when they request a filename input). Normal editing and saving of existing documents works well.
-Nemo: Navigates, creates folders, creates blank documents. Text documents and images open in correct apps. Seems to work.
-Maps: Basemaps and satellite overlays render well. Haven't used navigation on the road, but position indicator seems to consistently appear a couple hundred yards from the device's actual location.
-MegaPixels: Some issues. When first loading, the main camera is selected and display appears monochromatic. Trying to take a picture in this state will cause the app to freeze. The selfie camera takes pictures as expected. Switching to the selfie camera and then back to the the main camera results in a long pause after which the main camera initializes correctly. Once this occurs, the program seems to work as expected; but when re-running the app after closing it the camera takes quite a long time to initialize after the app itself loads. Image preview button does not work. Folder view button works. (The issues w/ main camera appeared in Beta 3, the app works better in Beta 2)
-ImageViewer: Doesn't initially launch in the pictures directory and there doesn't appear to be a way to set the default location. Viewing a picture file with Nemo launches Image Viewer to show the image and also displays contents of the directory containing the selected image. Image rotate works well.
-Sound Recorder: Records and saves audio files. The "open" file button does not appear unless there is an audio file present and selected. The "open" file button doesn't work; the file selector behaves much like notepad. The "delete" button briefly pops up a confirmation dialog which appears to automatically select "OK" and then proceeds to immediately delete the file.
-Software: No problems browsing the list of available software. System update alerts are issued and the automated system update process seems to work well.
Random Observations: Overall, the system seems quite stable. The Phosh UI takes a bit of getting used to; Plasma is initially more intuitive. The soft keyboard seems to be missing a way to generate "F" key output (F1-F12). Also, as a system feature, auto-rotate would be very nice but seems to be missing.