On Sunday 20 November 2022 00.46:29 deloptes wrote: > I read many months ago about the Pine Phone and was not convinced in anyway > that it is useful either. Let me know what is your experience and share > some use cases. For example can you sync data, how the usual features work, > calendar, alarms, sms, e-mail clients etc. I'd be happy to share, but you seem to be a much heavier phone user than I am :) I don't think many (if any) "linux application for phone" have been writen, so you mostly have to rely on apps that were not inteded to be used on a phone (or a tiny screen, or a vertical screen). As far as I undestand, Pine's idea is that no one will write these applpications as long as there is no hardware, so they try to provide that hardware. The software still has to be created. > How does it behave in a car - can you connect and use the phone (HFP)? Sorry, don't know what HFP means (english is not my mother tongue). Hand free maybe? There is bluetooth but I never tried to connect in a car (only use it with a special app to control charging...). I'll take a look. > can you encrypt the filesystem? I guess this will depend on the system. Never tried it with android either, I have no secrets on my phone... > which ECO systems are available? Not sure what you mean. Some linux-for-phone systems are based on regular distributions, such as Mobian - Debian. Some GUIs are based on KDE. But I did not have the feeling that there was a real integration at this point. > Can you use clients such as Signal, WhatsApp, Firefox? Firefox sure. Does Signal have a Linux version? AFAIK WhatsApp is IOS/Android only (but as I use neither this in only hearsay). I must say I'm rather a phone hater - I use my Android as a PDA (alarm, short notes, Kindle), parking paying and - when I absolutely have to - phoning. I usually have phone costs (all included) of less then $5 a month... Thierry ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
