Yup, I understand that it’s a pretty large leap, but the phone’s so affordable I’m not worried about it, and I’m learning a little, and having fun playing with it. I’d say it’s worth it IMO.
It’ll also be fun to see how the OS’es evolve over time.
It comes with a screen protector that feels plastic, and I’m probably not going to remove it for now.
The back cover is made out of plastic and it feels pretty cheap IMO.
I do like the clean design aside from the big UBports logo that kills that clean design. Looks easy to remove though, which I will likely try.
Over all it feels cheap, but if you look at it without touching it looks pretty good.
They’ll never be sold direct by carriers but in Europe at least that doesn’t matter (assuming they can become profitable) as there’s no real requirement for ‘carrier support’
Lol. I wasn’t that bad. I did boot it up with the tape on the phone, but when I realized it wasn’t charging I knew what to do. They really should have used plastic that wasn’t completely clear.
edit: That guy sounds like a dick… I wouldn’t ban anyone for seemingly trying to help.
Also sounds like he’s trying way to hard to sound smart.
I can see why… Thats the full on firefox desktop app running. Whats the bets its using up all your ram.
I have a funny feeling that the reason it may be slow is because the software is likely horribly un-optimised and there are few if any programs made for the device.
As far as i can tell these ARM distros have the same problem a number of distros have. The team are compiler teams, the build the source code for the platform. They dont engineer programs for the specific platform, so the programs were never specifically made or altered to be tailored for these kind of devices that really need highly optimised and efficient code.
I bet you could make this phone blazing fast if you stripped out all the cruft
Those plans are cheap. I’ll keep them in mind, but for now I just went to a local story and got one from there. Thanks though!
I’ll have to look into this. It did come with another mobile focused browser, but it seemed even worse.
I’ll give it another shot, but it’s definitely not my distro of choice. I didn’t spend enough time with it to answer that now.
Can confirm Manjaro Phosh can make and receive calls or texts even when it’s sleeping. This experience is pretty good, but the the sound quality is fairly bad, though completely understandable.
