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[–] 46 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Daily drivin Manjaro (Plasma mobile) on my Pinephone Pro for over a year now. If you are not into the whole "taking pictures all the time" thing you can easiy use it as a daily driver. (This message was typed on it)

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  • [–] [S] 31 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

    I respond to you just because yours is the last of the "I daily drive a PinePhone" comments, but this is meant for everyone with the same opinion.

    Do you, in all honesty, feel comfortable enough with your device that you would confidently run a business solely through it?
    I'm not an influencer, so my job isn't "taking pictures all the time", but still I wouldn't rely on a Linux phone to run my business because I cannot risk:

    • to miss a phone call, a text or an email;
    • to run out of battery if I'm outside my office all day long;
    • to have a faulty GPS should I use a navigator to meet a client;
    • that Bluetooth disconnects mid-call for the 5th time in a day while I'm driving;
    • that I have to take a picture to collect information and the latest update borked the camera.

    All of these things happen frequently on a Linux phone, and if you have a job where you can live through it good for you, I envy you TBH.
    On the other hand, keep in mind that it's not just the "Instagram people" that need a reliable device.

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Of course, everyone has different requirements on their phone, so the question if one would be comfortable running their buisness of a pine phone is quite divers.

    Phone calls, texts and E-Mails

    Text and E-Mails pretty much work as well as on every other phone. Phone calls work too, but the audio quality is below what one could expect from a modern iPhone.

    Battery

    While the battery runtime of one battery is definitely lower compared to competing devices, it is also replaceable. I usually spend my day in the office were the phone can be charged, so the battery life does not become an issue. When I am traveling I bring some extra batteries. The form factor is commonly available and batteries cost around 10 €, so I got 4 of them, which last me for ~36 hours until I have to charge them. I have so far never spend more time away from an outlet.

    GPS

    Works nowadays pretty reliable, accuracy of around 20 m is also good enough to find were I need to go

    Bluetooth

    Definitely not perfect but random disconnects happen rarely. On the other side I have an headphone jack, which always works reliably

    Camera

    Ok, this point goes to you, the camera is not usable. When taking pictures of documents I usually have to use my tablet.

    So now to the overarching question:

    Do you, in all honesty, feel comfortable enough with your device that you would confidently run a business solely through it? No, I would not feel comfortable to run a business through a phone, I need a real computer for my work. If I could only use a phone I would choose the pine phone, because at least it can run all software I require for my daily work. Connected to keyboard, mouse and a monitor it could be a slow, but acceptable work machine I can certainly imagine that there are jobs, which rely more heavily on a phone. But in these cases one should have separate work and private phones anyway

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  • [–] [S] -2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    So what you're saying to me is you can daily drive a Linux phone if you also daily drive a power bank, a bluetooth or wired headset and a camera?

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I dont need the power bank, since I can simply swap bateries. But in principle yes

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    It depends by what job you have: a plumber, for example, could probably run their business entirely with their phone.
    But we're missing the point, I'm not saying a smartphone can replace a PC, whether it be Linux, iOS or Android. I'm saying that If you need to do all the tasks that are required by a "modern day job" and you need to do them well, then I'm sorry (I really am) but Linux phones aren't ready yet.

    And most people aren’t running a business, so there’s that.

    Most people don't have the skill to troubleshoot a Linux phone, why don't we count them too in the statistics?
    Then, I used "running a business" as just an example to indicate the "urgency of a functioning phone" for whatever reason: it might just be that you have a relative you have to take care of, or that you are a doctor/nurse that can be contacted on every moment, or that you're an a job hunt and cannot miss the call... I can go on for hours on why in A.D. 2024 a person from whichever social context cannot afford to be off the grid

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    Most people don’t have the skill to troubleshoot a Linux phone, why don’t we count them too in the statistics?

    This community is called linuxmemes. You are talking to GNU/Linux users here. For everyone else it's going to be hard, obviously. It takes time to learn to use a completely different operating system.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    What do you use to browse Lemmy?

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The voyager PWA. Works really great and feels pretty much like a native app

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    So you use Chromium on there? Or how do you use PWAs?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Plasma mobile comes with the anglefish browser as default (a mobile browser based on chromium) that has support for PWAs

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Cool! Thats really interesting as not even damn Firefox has that

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