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Samtime tries out a Fairphone 4 running Ubuntu Touch and it seemed pretty fine. Noted issues were the second camera not working, GPS/Map app being a bit weird, and imo, the screen showing all the apps you have open is terrible. But with the reg app store and waydroid, I think it could be almost managable to use.

My mom is a battery life fiend though, so that part she won’t let go of. What’s your thoughts?

  • harsh3466@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Just watched this a little while ago and was pretty impressed overall.

    I agree the “all open apps” view is awful. The Vista callout made me laugh out loud.

    With this and Motorola working with Graphene, we seem to be moving steadily towards some decent options for phones that aren’t Google or Apple

    • [object Object]@lemmy.ca
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      5 months ago

      Graphene still requires Android though.

      The existence of Graphene obviously tells me that Android is a honeypot, otherwise a trillion dollar company like Google would also harden allocation and memory safety in Android.

  • A Sharky Anthro@fedia.io
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    5 months ago

    I really wish Sailfish would offer their OS for a wider range of devices, that OS seem the closest to ready for everyday people to use. Sailfish is great for power users as well!

  • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I bought one way back in 2015. A BQ Aquaris E5, quite decent hardware, factory-installed with Ubuntu Touch. It was an absolute disaster: buggy as hell, even the most basic native apps (SMS etc) hardly worked. Obviously no way to run Android apps. Somehow I made it work for about 3 months before giving up and flashing a CyanogenMod ROM.

    There was one silver lining. At one point during those 3 months I managed to lose the phone in a (completely anonymous) taxi. The interface was obviously so weird and crappy that the taxi driver actually replied to my SMS and returned the thing to me.

    Any decade now it will be ready!