Just wanted to post about my positive experience with the librem5
I’ve had it for a month or so now, before i was running around with a pinephone with mobian (about 5 months)
things I’ve noticed which make me really happy:
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alarms/calendar notifications work!
no more backup phone required. this is prob due to the fact that standby/power saving is off.
this is a daily driver thing for me so excellent.
Tried applying this to the pinephone but, that would not survive the night on battery -
battery seems to have more juice than the pinephone, currently i’m on a twice a day charge cycle. Which works for me atm
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the hardware kill switches.
I really love these, it’s super easy to disable wifi and then re-enable when i’m home. it usually picks the wifi up rather quick -
the camera+ app take pretty decent foto’s
no more backup required… sort of (see feedback )
love the auto focus/ manual switching. that UI could use some work and is a bit small/finicky -
it;s a PC
nothing more to say right?
Things that would be great if they are fixed:
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video recording.
the video’s stutter, so this is not ready for daily use just yet. -
orientation when taking pictures
when snapping pictures or filming in horizontal/landscape mode the display rotates and you get a mini preview window. which is not super -
firefox ESR addons windows/popups
I don’t know if its firefox ESR and might be fixed in firefox latest. but the addons menu/overlays don’t work.
they take ages to display and are to big/ stutter and have other graphical issues making them useless. Which is a shame because i would love to use containers & ublock for extra security ^^. Also firefox latest would be very nice. I know you can install that on debian, would be cool if we could get a mobile build. -
disk image backup
backing up and restoring the full phone drive seems a chore compared to the pinephone with towboot. from what i’ve read so far in the posts on this forum. I would love if the process would be more like that of the pinephone.
But in general I LOVE LINUX PHONES!
compiling on my phone, in whatever language c++, c# java etc. it’s great!
I feel like i really own this device, i’m running my own build software, no stores or other gatekeeping involved
so in closing:
Thanks for all the work, this rocks!