Question to the #LinuxPhone/#PostmarketOS/#PinePhone community: I still have the OG Pinephone from 2020 in a drawer and was playing around with the idea of using it as a semi-#dumphone / less distraction riddled device for day to day usage.
How is the current state of Linux on a Phone and what about this particular device? The PmOS wiki page looks promising,, so does the Debian wiki (which was my main phone OS back then) but I am unsure how well this is maintained. IIRC, it became somewhat abandoned when the #PinePhonePro arrived.
#PMos #Debian #Mobian #UBports #Linux
", "contentMap":{ "en":"Question to the #LinuxPhone/#PostmarketOS/#PinePhone community: I still have the OG Pinephone from 2020 in a drawer and was playing around with the idea of using it as a semi-#dumphone / less distraction riddled device for day to day usage.
How is the current state of Linux on a Phone and what about this particular device? The PmOS wiki page looks promising,, so does the Debian wiki (which was my main phone OS back then) but I am unsure how well this is maintained. IIRC, it became somewhat abandoned when the #PinePhonePro arrived.
#PMos #Debian #Mobian #UBports #Linux
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", "contentMap":{ "en":"@jayvii admittedly, my testing wasn't comprehensive, but I found that even basic phone functions like calling or texting were shaky at best, and hon-functional at worst. it might depend on your network provider, but outgoing call audio would often be choppy. Other times, it simply would not recieve calls or texts for some reason. I wouldn't rely upon it even as a dumbphone.
" }, "attachment":[], "tag":[ {"type":"Mention","name":"@jayvii@social.jayvii.de","href":"https://social.jayvii.de/actors/jayvii"} ], "url":["https://mastodon.social/@hstone32/114924320664011173"], "type":"Note", "id":"https://mastodon.social/users/hstone32/statuses/114924320664011173" } , { "@context":[ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams", {"Hashtag":"as:Hashtag"} ], "published":"2025-07-27T09:01:38.000Z", "attributedTo":"https://framapiaf.org/users/debacle", "inReplyTo":"https://social.jayvii.de/objects/m8MFsRe1zL4", "to":["https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public"], "cc":["https://framapiaf.org/users/debacle/followers","https://social.jayvii.de/actors/jayvii"], "content":"#PinePhone (≠ pro) running #Mobian #trixie is the only #smartphone I have, i.e. I can't compare to other devices.
", "contentMap":{ "en":"#PinePhone (≠ pro) running #Mobian #trixie is the only #smartphone I have, i.e. I can't compare to other devices.
" }, "attachment":[], "tag":[ {"type":"Hashtag","name":"#pinephone","href":"https://framapiaf.org/tags/pinephone"}, {"type":"Hashtag","name":"#mobian","href":"https://framapiaf.org/tags/mobian"}, {"type":"Hashtag","name":"#trixie","href":"https://framapiaf.org/tags/trixie"}, {"type":"Hashtag","name":"#smartphone","href":"https://framapiaf.org/tags/smartphone"}, {"type":"Mention","name":"@jayvii@social.jayvii.de","href":"https://social.jayvii.de/actors/jayvii"} ], "url":["https://framapiaf.org/@debacle/114924381671335319"], "type":"Note", "id":"https://framapiaf.org/users/debacle/statuses/114924381671335319" } , { "@context":[ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams", {"Hashtag":"as:Hashtag"} ], "published":"2025-07-27T09:24:23.164Z", "attributedTo":"https://social.jayvii.de/actors/jayvii", "inReplyTo":"https://framapiaf.org/users/debacle/statuses/114924381671335319", "replies":"https://social.jayvii.de/objects/GPWNerGKip4/replies", "to":["https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public","https://framapiaf.org/users/debacle"], "cc":["https://social.jayvii.de/actors/jayvii/followers"], "content":"@debacle i gather, you deem it generally usable then. What's your typical use-case, if I may ask? I.e. is it just a device you do phone calls with or is it more like a pocket PC you'd do all kind of things with like web browsing, news reading, listening to music / podcasts, etc?
", "contentMap":{ "en":"@debacle i gather, you deem it generally usable then. What's your typical use-case, if I may ask? I.e. is it just a device you do phone calls with or is it more like a pocket PC you'd do all kind of things with like web browsing, news reading, listening to music / podcasts, etc?
" }, "mediaType":"text/html", "attachment":[], "tag":[ {"type":"Mention","name":"@debacle@framapiaf.org","href":"https://framapiaf.org/users/debacle"} ], "type":"Note", "id":"https://social.jayvii.de/objects/GPWNerGKip4" } , { "@context":[ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams", {"Hashtag":"as:Hashtag"} ], "published":"2025-07-27T09:37:36.000Z", "attributedTo":"https://framapiaf.org/users/debacle", "inReplyTo":"https://social.jayvii.de/objects/GPWNerGKip4", "to":["https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public"], "cc":["https://framapiaf.org/users/debacle/followers","https://social.jayvii.de/actors/jayvii"], "content":"For #privacy reasons, I run it without #SIM, so I can't comment on normal phone calls. I like to use it for #SIP calls, but it seems, that #gnomeCalls still has one or the other bug in that respect. I hope for a fixed version soon™.
I use the #PinePhone for chat (#Dino), offline and online maps (#mepo, unfortunately not yet in #Debian), web (#Firefox) — but battery life is amazingly short.
", "contentMap":{ "en":"For #privacy reasons, I run it without #SIM, so I can't comment on normal phone calls. I like to use it for #SIP calls, but it seems, that #gnomeCalls still has one or the other bug in that respect. I hope for a fixed version soon™.
I use the #PinePhone for chat (#Dino), offline and online maps (#mepo, unfortunately not yet in #Debian), web (#Firefox) — but battery life is amazingly short.
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", "contentMap":{ "en":"@debacle thanks for the input!
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