Thierry de Coulon 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 :) > well, I can not carry my PC in the pocket - so except phone and sms, I need reminders (calendar) and contacts, which I need to sync (and I refuse to use cloud services for that) The other thing is that I have issue with business contacts, mails and scheduled meetings, so I need some kind of outlook on the phone as well. These are my use cases and I basically driven from the need to do business. > 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). > I contradict, because Sailfish (the former MeeGo) was developed exactly for smart phones. > 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. > Well this is where former Nokia and later Jolla/Sailfish failed and this is how Alien Dalvik got adopted (license cost 50€ and is permanent). So the point is that the developer expects some kind of monetization and if the community is not big enough, there is no motivation to write apps >> 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. > Yes, HFP is hands free profile. The other one that you may use is HSP (head set profile). HFP is used mostly in cars as it offers some additional functions. >> 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. > the eco system is the apps and the way you manage them (install, access to data on the phone, monetization, user base etc.) >> 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). > Yes it has Linux version, but it is closed/pre-compiled for specific distributions. WhatsApp is BS, but they use it here and I need it for contacting the school etc. > 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... Oh, good that you can be so conservative, I am trying too, but I already described the use cases that are driven by the circumstances. The stupid thing is that is expected if you want to be part of the company/social life :/ BR ____________________________________________________ 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
