(07-07-2021, 01:55 PM)d0n601 Wrote: The phone is for people that want to support the development of Linux phones. If you'd have read up on the status of what is and isn't functioning on various operating systems you'd have known what you were getting yourself into. I don't think "Beta" ever means "flawless and 100% reliable" in any way at all. It's a shame to see Pine64 getting returns when in my opinion they've been pretty up front about the device they're selling.
Beta doesn't mean flawless and 100% reliable. I never said that it does. However, if you're going to ship a smartPHONE, it had best be able to send and receive calls and texts at a bare minimum and store contacts. At least that functionality should be better than a BQ running Ubuntu Touch in 2017. But this works worse.
A Beta version is "an early release of the offering that’s almost ready but might have bugs that can only be found when a wide user base tries it out."
The GUI update manager failed for broken dependencies out of the box. Fine, I fired up the terminal and updated it from the command line. No worries. It's slow - fine, I wasn't expecting a flagship. But the cellular modem's connection isn't something I can babysit throughout the course of my day.
