Hi all,
Things continue to move on quite quickly, so I guess it's time for a new status/progress update (I'll try to post those on a monthly basis).
Over the past month we added or improved a whole bunch of exciting features:
All of these features are available in today's image, which has been promoted to a new "reference" release (I dare not say "stable" at this stage, even though I happily use my PinePhone as a daily driver).
The community has done a great job at improving the project's wiki, and things keep getting better.
Many thanks to everyone involved!
You can also follow Mobian on Twitter now, where we'll share news of software development as well as other news related to the larger PinePhone community.
Finally, we're always looking for contributors and developers as the team is still quite small and we're not short of items on our TODO-list! Please reach out to me if you'd be willing to help out
As always, the latest image can be downloaded from our server.
Enjoy!
Things continue to move on quite quickly, so I guess it's time for a new status/progress update (I'll try to post those on a monthly basis).
Over the past month we added or improved a whole bunch of exciting features:
- Thermal management is now working, decreasing the CPU frequency under intensive load so your phone doesn't get too hot (and the "Usage" app now properly reports temperature)
- Latest crust build greatly improves battery life (now ~20hrs idle with the modem on)
- Updated phoc & phosh which bring in lots of improvements, including automatic scaling for apps which would otherwise overflow the display (enabled by default for Calendar, Maps & Geary)
- Camera and flashlight are supported out of the box
- Driver for the ANX7688 USB-C controller is now included in the kernel build (requires a HW fix to be able to actually use USB-C peripherals)
- More mobile-friendly software have been packaged for Mobian (not all are installed by default, but they're just an "apt install" away):
- Cawbird (Twitter client)
- Flashlight
- GNOME Metronome
- Pinhole (Camera app)
- Tootle (Mastodon client)
- Cawbird (Twitter client)
All of these features are available in today's image, which has been promoted to a new "reference" release (I dare not say "stable" at this stage, even though I happily use my PinePhone as a daily driver).
The community has done a great job at improving the project's wiki, and things keep getting better.
Many thanks to everyone involved!
You can also follow Mobian on Twitter now, where we'll share news of software development as well as other news related to the larger PinePhone community.
Finally, we're always looking for contributors and developers as the team is still quite small and we're not short of items on our TODO-list! Please reach out to me if you'd be willing to help out
As always, the latest image can be downloaded from our server.
Enjoy!
