I think this works as intended on the Librem 5. In fact, I have the opposite complaint: Calls does resolve phone numbers to contacts, which means that if I have a contact with more than one phone number, I can’t tell which number my contact called from.
Same on the Librem 5. MMS support is coming though and perhaps that functionality will apply across both phones.
I’m not finding that on the Librem 5. Geary operates well. I use it every day, mostly receiving though. I was able to send email using SMTP. In other words, SMTP works for me.
(I even had the situation that the SMTP server had changed between now, when I just tested it, and when I previously tested it. Geary carefully preserved the failed-to-send message. I closed Geary, updated the SMTP config, and started Geary again. It then picked up attempting to send the email and finished the job. So there’s even a bit of robustness in the face of “bad user on device”.)
Lockups are at worst very occasional. I may have had one or two in the whole of this calendar year. It’s certainly not something that jumps out as a problem so yes I would say “past that sort of thing”.
There are certainly bugs and there are certainly functional gaps - and I do concede that after a while, one can become blind to them i.e. they become just part of the landscape.
This seems to be close on the librem 5 at least. Been watching this merge request that is about mms. It seems to be under constant development. Not sure when the dev is going to decide it’s good enough to merge.
I’ve been under the impression that mms no longer blocked new sms messages for some time though. Not sure why you’re having that issue.
I think we don’t have yet the correct sound config for a wired headset, so last time I checked, the microphone didn’t get picked up. But it was a while since then.
Indeed, the mic doesn’t work for a wired headset on the librem5, but it does work on the pinephone with mobian (I did this frequently before I got my Librem 5)
Apologies. I said SMTP, but I meant POP. Evolution does POP, but most stuff doesn’t fit on the screen – way too hard to use on the sofa, impossible whilst driving.
Wired headset is definitely the best experience for the other caller, but I tend to tangle the cable whilst driving. I really need Bluetooth or at least wired mic/aux. The echo cancellation and spacial filtering is working better on the L5, right?
If the L5 doesn’t block new SMS after a failed MMS, it will definitely do the trick until MMS is fixed. Much appreciated!
From all the responses I get the feeling that in almost every case the Librem is more feature complete than Mobian. Other threads point to that regarding navigation and camera, as well. That’s great news. My hope is that eventually the Pinephone catch up, either with Mobian or PureOS (even if I need non-FLOSS drivers/blobs. I’ll need a backup device in case I accidentally trash the Librem!
There’s always the option of putting PureOS on the Pinephone. It’s been a while since I tried (got distracted while waiting on a cable to ship to interact with the UART to troubleshoot startup issues) but in theory should be possible. I do get the feeling, updating pretty much daily, that Mobian is lagging behind PureOS as far as package versions.
It should be noted that the LIbrem 5 has it’s own issues at present. Currently the modem only supports 2g and 3g calling so no volte yet. Also taking pictures is painfull due to no autofocus/autogain/autoexposure.
It is being worked on. That is still from a development version and stuff still needs to be done to solve a few issues and integrate with other parts of the stack, for example GNOME Contacts supporting storing SIP addresses as contacts so you can just lookup a SIP contact, press the call button, and magic happening.
You can follow the progress of the work with SIP here:
You can also check the merge requests here:
As for echo cancellation, others would be better suited to reply to that, I believe we are working on some improvements.
My critique of SIP and echo cancellation apply only to Pinephone Mobian, as I don’t yet have a Librem 5. From what I can see, Mobian does no SIP whatsoever and does echo cancellation very poorly. If someone on the forum has both phones and can make a direct comparison, it would be very appreciated.
I ran into the same problem: very unhappy with email clients. My idea at the moment is to look into webmail clients. I’m using imap, so I can’t specifically say whether it helps for your pop3 problem, but I found rainloop to be a nice client, which - so far in my experience and for my use case - lacks only one feature: not marking emails as read once viewed. My work flow since years is that I do mark them manually as read, when I’m done with them.
My initial idea has been to have the webmail client somewhere in my internal network which I can reach via vpn, but I’m already thinking about a setup where I’d install the client locally on the phone, but didn’t try, yet.
Ah, yes. I should have said: I am using IMAP with Geary. (The fact that it only does IMAP means that I am only accessing some of my accounts from the Librem 5. I can live with that for now …)
If Geary doesn’t eventually grow POP support, I was thinking of putting in a POP-to-IMAP bridge … one day.
FWIW the PinePhone has a completely different modem audio path which makes it unable to utilize the same solutions that Librem 5 does for stuff like echo cancellation. AFAIUI Mobian doesn’t do any echo cancellation there, it’s fully relying on the modem.
