Re: cyanogen/LineageOS phone recommendations

2016-12-30 Thread Michael Butash
I have been using Sony Xperia android phones for a long time now. They are one of the few that told microsoft to shove it with their patent extortion, and their top-spec hardware is generally capable of being unlocked and romable with xda love. Currently using a Z5 Compact, haven't unlocked it to

Re: cyanogen/LineageOS phone recommendations

2016-12-30 Thread Nathan
On 2016-12-28 12:52, Stephen Partington wrote: The Samsung J7 is actually a good price point. As is the Moto G. and they are popular enough to have some XDA love http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-j7 Yep, really gotta plug the Moto lines. That is all my wife and I have been using for the

Re: cyanogen/LineageOS phone recommendations

2016-12-28 Thread der.hans
Am 28. Dec, 2016 schwätzte Ed so: Save on the monthly bill Get it cheep and unlocked at CostCo and/or look here - https://ting.com/shop?Brand=Samsung&Brand=Motorola I like project Fi, but I'm sure Google's alarms would go off with your registration... ;) Using Android, so project Fi isn't an

Re: cyanogen/LineageOS phone recommendations

2016-12-28 Thread Ted Gould
On Wed, 2016-12-28 at 13:04 -0700, Anon Anon wrote: > I want an Ubuntu phone so bad I cannot stand it. It seems impossible > to find any information about it and US carriers seem completely > ignored I'm using a Meizu Pro 5, which I got with Android and unlocked and flashed. I'm on AT&T and it gets

Re: cyanogen/LineageOS phone recommendations

2016-12-28 Thread Ed
Save on the monthly bill Get it cheep and unlocked at CostCo and/or look here - https://ting.com/shop?Brand=Samsung&Brand=Motorola I like project Fi, but I'm sure Google's alarms would go off with your registration... ;) On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 3:09 PM, Stephen Partington wrote: > I got Ubuntu

Re: cyanogen/LineageOS phone recommendations

2016-12-28 Thread Stephen Partington
I got Ubuntu Mobile installed and running on my Nexus7. I really liked it. The part of it however that ruined the whole thing or me is the really sloppy and klugy app ecosystem. everyone is slapping in html5 apps linking directly to a web page that are actually worse than just using a browser. On

Re: cyanogen/LineageOS phone recommendations

2016-12-28 Thread Stephen Partington
The J7 is remarkably close to the S7 in performance making it a rather nice device. On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 1:31 PM, der.hans wrote: > Am 28. Dec, 2016 schwätzte Stephen Partington so: > > moin moin, > > The Samsung J7 is actually a good price point. As is the Moto G. and they >> are popular eno

Re: cyanogen/LineageOS phone recommendations

2016-12-28 Thread Stephen Partington
I saw Moto G on sale at Costco sold as unlocked multi-carrier. On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 1:31 PM, der.hans wrote: > Am 28. Dec, 2016 schwätzte Stephen Partington so: > > moin moin, > > The Samsung J7 is actually a good price point. As is the Moto G. and they >> are popular enough to have some XDA

Re: cyanogen/LineageOS phone recommendations

2016-12-28 Thread der.hans
Am 28. Dec, 2016 schwätzte Stephen Partington so: moin moin, I had completely forgotten about the dual-persona options. I still don't want to use it in this case as I absolutely don't trust the particular app vendors. Still, multi-persona might be useful for some other projects and potentially

Re: cyanogen/LineageOS phone recommendations

2016-12-28 Thread der.hans
Am 28. Dec, 2016 schwätzte Anon Anon so: moin moin, I want an Ubuntu phone so bad I cannot stand it. It seems impossible to find any information about it and US carriers seem completely ignored. US carriers are the inhibitors, as is the case for many other cell phones and phone innovations. R

Re: cyanogen/LineageOS phone recommendations

2016-12-28 Thread der.hans
Am 28. Dec, 2016 schwätzte Stephen Partington so: moin moin, The Samsung J7 is actually a good price point. As is the Moto G. and they are popular enough to have some XDA love http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-j7 Had never heard of the j7. Looks good. More expensive than I was planning,

Re: cyanogen/LineageOS phone recommendations

2016-12-28 Thread Stephen Partington
Ubuntu phones are not ignoring the US Carriers, the carriers were the ones who are basically ignoring the Ubuntu Phones. There is a concept of the work/home split in android so you could split the two, apps and everything. https://www.android.com/work/ http://arstechnica.com/information-technolog

Re: cyanogen/LineageOS phone recommendations

2016-12-28 Thread Anon Anon
I want an Ubuntu phone so bad I cannot stand it. It seems impossible to find any information about it and US carriers seem completely ignored. I would just recommend buying the barest of bones and cheapest android phone you can use for work and put as little data as possible about you personally o

Re: cyanogen/LineageOS phone recommendations

2016-12-28 Thread Stephen Partington
The Samsung J7 is actually a good price point. As is the Moto G. and they are popular enough to have some XDA love http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-j7 On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 12:43 PM, der.hans wrote: > moin moin, > > work requires a couple of applications I refuse to install on my persona

cyanogen/LineageOS phone recommendations

2016-12-28 Thread der.hans
moin moin, work requires a couple of applications I refuse to install on my personal phone, so I need a secondary phone. Any recommendation considering the following? I would like to go with LineageOS[0] once it's up and running or some other 'as free as practical' Android fork. I would love a