[lug] Linux Phones

[David L. Willson]

This would make a great BLUG presentation. 


From: "Davide Del Vento" <davide.del.vento at gmail.com> 
To: "BLUG" <lug at lug.boulder.co.us> 
Sent: Monday, December 14, 2020 5:00:27 PM 
Subject: Re: [lug] Linux Phones 

Thanks, Kevin! Very interesting. 
Please link here if/when you'll publish a new blog post with updates. 

On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 2:20 PM Kevin Fenzi < [ mailto:kevin at scrye.com | kevin at scrye.com ] > wrote: 


On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 08:56:17AM -0700, Simos wrote: 
> On Mon, 14 Dec 2020 06:38:17 -0700 Stephen Queen < [ mailto:svqueen at gmail.com | svqueen at gmail.com ] > wrote: 
> > 
> > Has anyone on this list bought one of the linux phones such as the librem5 
> > or pine phone? If so, what are their impressions? Are they user friendly? 
> > How do they compare to the mainstream phones? 
> > Thanks in advance, 
> > Steve 
> 
> Hi, 
> 
> I've been vaguely interested in Linux phones as well, especially after seeing a couple of recent articles at a Linux gaming site I follow: 
> 
> [ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2020/11/kde-teams-up-with-pinephone-for-the-pinephone-kde-community-edition | https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2020/11/kde-teams-up-with-pinephone-for-the-pinephone-kde-community-edition ] 
> 
> [ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2020/11/the-pro1-x-smartphone-looks-like-an-awesome-linux-phone-for-tech-fans | https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2020/11/the-pro1-x-smartphone-looks-like-an-awesome-linux-phone-for-tech-fans ] 
> 
> Hopefully Linux phones won't be just another "next year is the year of the Linux desktop" scenario because I'd love to have a basic sub-$200 hackable phone without Android/iOS. 

So, I have actually two pinephones now. ;) I got one of the orig 2GB 
memory models, and then later picked up a 3GB ones with usb-c minidock. 

They really are not close to being a daily phone yet, but there's pretty 
rapid progress. There's a ton of distros making images for them. 

It's going to be a while before they are day to day phones, and then a 
bit longer after that for everything to percolate upstream and land in 
mainstream distros. That said, it should be a pretty nice (if cheap and 
slow) phone then. :) 

Right now most folks are using a kernel by 'megi' that has a ton of 
pinephone related patches on it. You can see a feature matrix at: 

[ https://xnux.eu/devices/pine64-pinephone.html | https://xnux.eu/devices/pine64-pinephone.html ] 

They also have a image that has 17 os'es on it: 
[ https://xnux.eu/p-boot-demo/ | https://xnux.eu/p-boot-demo/ ] 

For $150 (or 200 if you want the usb-c minidock and 3GB) is pretty cheap 
for a phone and while it's slow and the res isn't great, it's a fun toy 
to play with. 

I did a blog post with more initial thoughts: 
[ https://www.scrye.com/wordpress/nirik/2020/07/25/pinephone-initial-thoughts/ | https://www.scrye.com/wordpress/nirik/2020/07/25/pinephone-initial-thoughts/ ] 

Probibly should do another soon. 

Happy to answer questions. 

kevin 
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