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by makerofspoons 2185 days ago
Adding ubports to the list- I have it on my Pinephone and can place and receive calls, send and receive SMS, and utilize GPS. There are some features that don't yet work on Pinephone like MMS but it's on the threshold of being daily-driver worthy.
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Sounds great. Is the battery life OK? Was it hard to get the phone?

To be clear, I see some measure of compromise as totally reasonable if one's goal is to get on an open os...

Users on Pine64.org have reported their devices can run 14 hours on idle and my own experience is the battery will last all day with moderate usage. Getting it on the phone is as simple as getting Raspbian on a Raspberry Pi, you just flash the image onto an SD card.