Escaping Duopoly: Best 5 Linux Smartphones Without Performance Security Excuses
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> The Fairphone's use of eco-friendly materials has a positive impact on the environment. The use of ethically sourced materials helps to ensure that the mining of these materials is done in a responsible and sustainable manner, with fair labor practices and minimal environmental damage. This can help to reduce the negative impacts of mining on local communities and ecosystems. Additionally, the use of recycled materials in the phone's construction helps to reduce electronic waste and the demand for most used resources. Overall, the Fairphone 4's design and materials choices reflect a commitment to sustainability and ethical practices, which can have a positive impact on the environment and society.
> Overall, the Volla Phone X23 seems to be a solid choice for those looking for a rugged smartphone with a unique operating system and features.
> Overall, the Sony Xperia 1 is a good choice for those looking for a high-end smartphone with a focus on entertainment.
Overall, couldn't I have just asked ChatGPT for this article?
The PPP's been out for like two years now. This article is dated today... but I suppose that would have been correct around the time of ChatGPT's training data cutoff.
1. There's an app I use to operate and pay for the laundry machine in the basement of my apartment building.
2. There's an app I use during fire drills--I'm a a teacher--to confirm all my students made it out of the building.
3. There's an app I use to see the real-time location of the private bus which picks me up in the morning.
(None of these apps have equivalents on the web.)
The connecting thread is that I didn't really choose to use these services, someone else chose for me.
Everything else I have managed to move to my computer or replace with alternatives, but the payment one, it's basically the only way to transfer money to friends and family, that isn't a major hassle.
OT: so when you are going to rent an appartment you have to do it via an app like airbnb (in german: there is a "vivawest-app", and you can not visit the appartment physicaly before you sign a (minimum 3 month) contract (to rent from them), no -you'd have to use the app for a "sightseeing" (cos "migrants" and um you wont know or hear about otherwise))?
There's once was a saying (in german): "lass dich nicht ver-äpp-eln" (-;
regards...
At least the camera is working now!
But as someone mentioned, this article still references CopperheadOS, which does has not existed for a long time and reads like a content-mill piece. It's not a very good article :(
One thing that is keeping me from changing is the camera quality. I had a Huawei P30 pro and it was sick. Then i changed to the iPhone 13Pro and again, also top. But i still have not seen convincing hardware integration with good lenses on these mobiles.
Sent from my PinePhone Pro.
Sent from my Librem 5, while my Pinephone running Mobian lies beside.
What possibility is there for such android apps to ever run on PinePhone?
You won't be able to run banking software or play DRM content this way, but I think WhatsApp and Signal should work. I can imagine some features not working (video calling, cloud backups) but basic chat should work.
This means there's only a single app that needs to find updates to messages - a major boon on de-Googled Android too. Everything's in one place, from Whatsapp to Discord to Telegram. Best of all, there's a variety of clients for Matrix. Telegram, Whatsapp, and Signal have desktop applications for Linux, but they're lukewarm at best - some have scaling issues due to screen size, some are objectively not meant to be used standalone.
But unfortunately they don't support audio or video calling for Whatsap [1] or Signal. That is a critical feature. I doubt anything short of legislation would force Whatsapp or Signal to allow this feature.