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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    I think my problem is that I don’t know where I want to see improvement. I see two options:

    • Linux phone - it’ll become a hobby and I’ll constantly need to tinker
    • Graphene, Fairphone, etc - better than what I have, but I’ll probably never get to my ideal

    If the PinePhone had better software, I’d totally just go with that, but it’ll be rough the first couple of years.

    • Hatch@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Regarding best phone for post market os

      https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices

      Pinephone (not pro) seems to have the most support its on the main line.

      Other than that under “community” & “phone” you would decide which phone in that list meets what you need and get peoples opinion on those specific phone with usage.

      • your selection on which direction to take via pinephone or android based on your needs and tollerances.

      If you dont mind tinkering go pinephone however if you need it to work for various uses based on what you/friends/family use and compromises need to be done then go android.

      Contribution can be bug reports, donations, assistance to other users ect. Anything is possible if you want.

      I do where i can and its my choice; same with you, your choices are your own.

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        I think I’ll want the PinePhone Pro because repairability is important and it’ll probably be hard to find parts for outdated mass market phones. The original PinePhone is just too slow for me (from videos, not hands-on usage), and the PinePhone Pro probably wouldn’t be a huge downgrade from my current phone in terms of performance.

        I didn’t see a big selection of used OnePlus 6s (OnePlus 6T seems available though), and the ones that are available are in poor shape (shattered back, burned in screen, some kind of damage, etc), so it’s not going to be a long term option most likely. The PinePhone should have decent parts support for a few years at least.

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          1 year ago

          Sounds good,

          I have a pinephone pro, while you can use use it touch. I recommend either the keyboard case(since it has a battery) or having a portable bluetooth keyboard of some sort. If configurartion is needed and there are issues with the onscreen keyboard(happens when i use certain apps like bitwarden) the keyboard helps ease that issue.

          I still use stock manjaro plasma but if i jump i might go to sway/plasma arch/sway postmarket still checking put options though. I know i need waydroid to work so ill see what the doc support is on both.