Do I know anyone here who daily drives #LinuxMobile / #postmarketOS on their main/only phone and would be willing to share their experience?
@luana Using a #Librem 5 with #phosh (on #Debian based distros) since several years. All the common bits (phone calls, SMS, mobile data, GPS positioning, proximity and orientations sensors, leds, haptic feedback, cameras, …) etc work.
The app ecosystem (as mentioned in this thread) is growing and has nice options already. Camera usage has some quirks (userspace / app limitations) but there's 3A (thanks @pavel) so "point and shoot".
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@luana @pavel Battery live is either short or (with suspend) the phone won't yet wake up on e.g. incoming Matrix/XMPP messages (but wakes up fine on e.g. incoming calls / SMS).
We have lots of things to make the user experience nicer on the phosh side and some gaps like e.g. Android Auto, Cellbroadcast support or nice BT integration but things make steady progress.
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@paoloredaelli @luana @pavel At least for the L5 I can say there's lots of potential for improvements (leveraging the M4 core, suspend more, freeze background processes, …). There's limitations compared to the heavily mobile optimized SoCs of today but it should be possible to get into an o.k. state "out of the box".
Regarding CIE (e.g. cie-middleware) so looks like yet another a project for someone to pick up.
@paoloredaelli @luana @pavel 😃
Waydroid does run apk but I assume you need access to a smart card reader? Haven't tried that.
@agx
Short battery life is a really sore point. I wonder how Android, being Linux based gets so long battery life
I still haven't dared using it daily because it often get hot. Plus I use Telegram a lot and I need to use Italian's CIE and SPID which support only Android and iOS.
@luana @pavel