On 2020-09-01 16:42:50 deloptes wrote: > Thierry de Coulon wrote: > > From a search I get that mass storage was dropped when Android/Google > > increased "data scurity" on the phones. Why we are not allowed to take > > responsibility for the security of our data I don't know. > > > > I guess that any newer Android version will be MTP only. I did try > > various Linux OSes on a PinePhone and I nust say the results are - for > > the time being - quite devastating. The device is slow, and the OS are > > far from ready, to the point that many can't even... phone. Apps don't > > adapt to the screen, most don't rotate (and usually only manualy if they > > do). There's no camera suppport or very bad if any. > > > > I don't use my phone much, and I I still use a "real" camera for > > pictures, but even so I'm not abandonning my compact Sony for a while. > > I started using Nokia N9 when the whole madness around "smart" kicked in. > It was a kind of debian OS (MeeGo) and it is still a great phone. > > Few years later when Nokia gave up the guys that were working on N9 founded > Jolla and 2016 I bought the Intex AquaFish, that unfortunately finally > ended in the hands of my wife. 2017 it was not possible to purchase the > Intex anymore, because production was too expensive and Jolla was in bad > shape (They failed on the hardware manufacturing costs). I went for Sony > Xperia X where you could flash the Saialfish OS and I am still using it > today as primary phone. Licensed (29,-€) version has Dalvik and you can run > Android apps as well. I tried last year XA2 (which has a newer Dalvik), but > I failed flashing it and returned as I did not have the time to > investigate. At the moment I can not find hardware (latest is Xperia 10 or > so but is also out of stock). > > Long story short there are only few meaningful alternatives to Android and > iOS and there is nothing for my pocket - Librem 5 > (https://shop.puri.sm/shop/librem-5/) $750,- or PinePhone that you > described very well. > I would like to try librem-5 but 750 is simply too much and I am not sure > it will cover my daily use cases. > > In 2016 I was already familiar with Qt, so Sailfish seemed to be a good > choice and things that worked on the N9 still work on the Sailfish (well > some had to be recompiled and pimped of course). But at the moment I have > peace. > > It is indeed very very hard to swim against the mainstream on the phone > market. Incredible (IMO)! Yep; way too many unchecked monopolies in the "technology" world today. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
