Has anyone looked at purchasing a pinephone from pine64.org, or considered
doing so?
Aside from the usual features I am curions whether the support of mobile
communications protocols is sufficiently broad to assume it would be
supported by AT&T (which is the carrier for which RedPocket is the low
I was lucky enough to get one of the UBPorts editions of the PinePhone
back in June. I am using it as my "daily driver", but realize that my
use case is probably not the norm.
Here's a quick rundown of my impressions.
The phone itself is surprisingly solid and seems thoughtfully engineered
t
One other option I haven't tried yet is the "GloDroid" which claims to
be "A fully open source port of Android to the PinePhone". Since I've
grown weary of Android, it hasn't held much interest for me. There
appear to currently be 17 different OS options for the PinePhone
(although many seem t
On 8/8/20 2:34 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
Has anyone looked at purchasing a pinephone from pine64.org, or considered
doing so?
Aside from the usual features I am curions whether the support of mobile
communications protocols is sufficiently broad to assume it would be
supported by AT&T (which is th
On Sat, 8 Aug 2020, Galen Seitz wrote:
This is not the phone you are looking for.
"Before anyone gets too excited, we need to make something clear—these
devices, while attractively priced, should be considered beta gadgets for
tinkerers to experiment and play with. They are not yet fully functi
"It would be nice to not be tracked by Google."
Rich, if you dig a lil' bit deeper into and get a bit clearer about this,
you can do a lot to mitigate Google's or any other corporate tracking of
your online presence and offline activities.
1. Airplane mode - I keep my phone in airplane mode unles
On 8/8/20 2:34 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> Has anyone looked at purchasing a pinephone from pine64.org, or considered
> doing so?
As mentioned, pinephone is not quite there yet. I do like Pine's concept
of isolating the OS from the cellular modem hardware. Its for the modem
and related parts that y
On Sat, 8 Aug 2020, Mike C. wrote:
Rich, if you dig a lil' bit deeper into and get a bit clearer about this,
you can do a lot to mitigate Google's or any other corporate tracking of
your online presence and offline activities.
Mike,
True that.
1. Airplane mode - I keep my phone in airplane
Maybe this is your privacy option? https://copperhead.co/android/
On Sun, Aug 9, 2020 at 5:41 AM Rich Shepard
wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Aug 2020, Mike C. wrote:
>
> > Rich, if you dig a lil' bit deeper into and get a bit clearer about this,
> > you can do a lot to mitigate Google's or any other corpor
Paul, Thanks for your account of your experience so far with the Pinephone
& the various operating systems available for it. I will probably buy a
Pinephone some day when the hardware & software for it have matured more.
I love to read about this subject. Currently, I'm wrestling with LineageOS
>
> Another one to keep an eye on is the Libre 5 from Purism:
>
>
> https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/09/purisms-librem-5-phone-starts-shipping-a-fully-open-gnulinux-phone/
>
> https://puri.sm/products/
I like that PureOS is not based on Android or iOS, they've anti-tracking
features and you c
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