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Pavel Machek
pavel
Edited 4 days ago
I had many phones. Some were good, some were bad, and some were meh. Siemens sl45i looked like good phone, but it was not, partly because they forgot to debug it. Ericsson t68i was nice (70? grams), bluetooth was improvement. Nokia 6230 was very nice phone (99 grams), Nokia 6230i was downgrade, and Ericsson K700i was not a good phone. UI was not great and it would not hold in one piece.
I had HTC Dream (aka T-Mobile G1). Having Linux inside was "cool" but it definitely was not good, and was not a phone. Nokia N900 was better, Linux worked a bit better, but still not a phone. And than it got ... worse? Motorola Droid 4 is better version of N900, but bigger again. Pine Phone, Librem 5, OnePlus 6 ... yes, each one is better computer, but neither is really a good phone.
And then I got Geeksphone Keon (Firefox OS). It runs Linux (kernel 3.4 or something), but rather old one, and is certainly not a good computer, but it started feeling as a phone, again. Reasonably battery life (few days), and it would actually fit into pockets I had available when riding horses. I liked that one. 120grams.
And now I have a new toy (actually few "new" toys, thanks!) that starts to feel like phone. Samsung S4 mini VE (110 grams) is really nice phone. Small enough and can last few days (with LineageOS), and with #postmarketos it seems to be pretty good computer, too. It runs mainline kernel, and most of the stuff mostly works (except cameras). Wow! Once again, I have phone I like (or four).
Samsung was not even too evil when creating the phone, so you can just hold buttons and enter bootloader. Certainly improvement from OnePlus 6, where I will likely never get rid of red errors during boot. There is a bit of evil in the details, that "VE" or "value edition" is important. That is i9195i, which is very, very different from "S4 mini" or i9195. Mainline support is very limited for i9195 -- you will not get touchscreen, for example.
Any help would be welcome. And if you have S4 mini you do not need, I may be able to use it.
#i9195 #i9195i
I had HTC Dream (aka T-Mobile G1). Having Linux inside was "cool" but it definitely was not good, and was not a phone. Nokia N900 was better, Linux worked a bit better, but still not a phone. And than it got ... worse? Motorola Droid 4 is better version of N900, but bigger again. Pine Phone, Librem 5, OnePlus 6 ... yes, each one is better computer, but neither is really a good phone.
And then I got Geeksphone Keon (Firefox OS). It runs Linux (kernel 3.4 or something), but rather old one, and is certainly not a good computer, but it started feeling as a phone, again. Reasonably battery life (few days), and it would actually fit into pockets I had available when riding horses. I liked that one. 120grams.
And now I have a new toy (actually few "new" toys, thanks!) that starts to feel like phone. Samsung S4 mini VE (110 grams) is really nice phone. Small enough and can last few days (with LineageOS), and with #postmarketos it seems to be pretty good computer, too. It runs mainline kernel, and most of the stuff mostly works (except cameras). Wow! Once again, I have phone I like (or four).
Samsung was not even too evil when creating the phone, so you can just hold buttons and enter bootloader. Certainly improvement from OnePlus 6, where I will likely never get rid of red errors during boot. There is a bit of evil in the details, that "VE" or "value edition" is important. That is i9195i, which is very, very different from "S4 mini" or i9195. Mainline support is very limited for i9195 -- you will not get touchscreen, for example.
Any help would be welcome. And if you have S4 mini you do not need, I may be able to use it.
#i9195 #i9195i
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Ozzelot 
ozzelot@mstdn.social
@pavel i have so much shit i do not need... may have sold the s4 minis for peanuts (of course, having bought them for even smaller peanuts - i confess, i did a capitalism) to a very particular company, though.
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Project Insanity
pi_crew@social.project-insanity.org@pavel oh i think i have one, will take a look
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