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Is there a summary of functionality for pinephone?

I’m not clear if for example the degraded mms support is an issue in all variants of mobile gnu Linux distros or oif only some suffer.

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Since there are so many distros, it is honestly hard to keep up with (even if you are involved with the commuity). In (very) broad strokes (i.e. if you use a well supported distro), you can expect:

- Calls and SMS seem stable, even when the phone is asleep

- Battery life Screen on time is measured in hours, and sleep time is measured in ~1 day

- Anbox is usable, but not easy to install

- convergance is stable

- MMS is non-functional: https://sr.ht/~anteater/mms-stack/

- GPS/location is only usable if you have a GPS signal

- Camera is pretty stable (though the front camera had a green tint)

Which distribution are you using? (Asking because there are differences in feature support and reliability .)

I tried PostmarketOS, Mobian, and Manjaro.

PostmarketOS edge had Plasma Mobile 5.20.3, which was considered to be the latest plasma mobile at the time.

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