(10-07-2020, 02:23 AM)firefox-58 Wrote: ATM I am using with joy my other Linux based smartphone: A SONY Xperia X running stable and flawlessly on Sailfish OS. Calls and SMS work, Caldav/Carddav works, ActiveSync works, Camera works, Browser and internet are working and the battery lasts for 2-3 days.
Hello fellow sailor
While I think we can all agree that progress on call functionality is frustrating I think it's worth commenting that the comparison to Sailfish OS has a number of issues:
1. Sailfish is backed by a commercial company founded by ex-Nokia developers, has paying personal customers and corporate clients and launched it's first phone in 2013 (7 years ago).
2. It's UI (which is awesome) is closed source.
3. Saying the browser works is a stretch, it's only just got an updated engine in the 3.4 early access release and still has stability issues (ref: https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/browser-p...ose/2590/8). Prior to this update it didn't work with many sites due to the outdated engine, it's still not great.
4. You are fortunate to have an Xperia X, mine died (hardware), I replaced with XA2 on which *phone calls* are plagued by a bug (no audio in either direction) which has been known about across *4 releases* (ref: https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/3-4-0-22-...io/2446/18). I have used Sailfish as a daily driver for over two years and unless this is fixed ASAP I'm going to have to ditch :/
I love Sailfish too but it's really not a good comparison to the PinePhone project which is 100% open source community driven and only 6 months ish of development in vs the many years that Sailfish has been in development (not to mention it's precursor projects in Nokia itself).
I just felt it was worth pointing out
I fully agree that it would be great to:- Get an update from devs on the issues surrounding the modem functionalities
- Get told where to direct donations to accelerate the work on this area (like others I'm more than happy to funnel some cash to this cause!)
