[ale] [EXTERNAL] Woo! Pinephone64!!

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Thu Sep 17 09:06:29 EDT 2020


Will start with a cheap card with limited service from bodega sales. Will eventually get on tmobile.

On September 17, 2020 8:47:54 AM EDT, Leam Hall via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>Very much interested in this as well. What carrier are you going to
>connect it to?
>
>On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 8:42 AM Jim Kinney via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>>
>> My hopes as well.
>>
>> It's about the same size and weight as my one+ 5. Built in terminal
>with ssh, tab completion, gnome-3.36(!?!) is gui base, wayland. Firefox
>is basically the desktop version with mobile extension. Doesn't scale
>to screen right in portrait mode until a reboot after extension
>install. Can't figure out how to get the keyboard to go away yet. OS
>based on Alpine Linux. That's pretty cool. Software app is crap for
>now. Use cli with sudo apk search/add
>>
>> I'm wondering how much actual work I'll get done today 🤣
>>
>>
>> On September 17, 2020 8:31:56 AM EDT, "Beddingfield, Allen via Ale"
><ale at ale.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Woo!  I will be really interested to hear about your experience with
>it.  I'm hoping PinePhone will evolve into something that can be used
>as a primary phone in the not too distance future.
>>>
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>>> From: Ale <ale-bounces at ale.org> on behalf of Jim Kinney via Ale
><ale at ale.org>
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>>> Subject: [EXTERNAL] [ale] Woo! Pinephone64!!
>>>
>>> It arrived yesterday. Nice new toy. I got it with the nic/hdmi/usb
>dongle. Got some hackery to do. Sshd is started from begining. Other
>than a binary blob that runs the modem, it's all open source. Mini dip
>switches under removable back cover that control modem, wifi and
>bluetooth, cameras, microphone, and headphone. Removable battery and
>reset switch and a 6-pin accessory hacking pin collection.
>>> Take the tape off the battery connection. It helps :-)
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