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which linux phone is the most promising? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I want to donate to a linux phone. I believe in linux and I want a linux phone. Maybe we can use one in very few years as a normal daily driver. It's getting closer and closer every month.

I want to donate that we get there sooner. But which project? I'm following postmarket but I'm not sure if they are the most promising. What's your stance on this? To which project would you give your money to accellerate it?

Edit: I don't want to buy a phone. I want to support the phone os devs. Sorry for the bad wording.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (3 children)

6a is good. The 7 is said to be bad.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I have a 6a, which I tolerate for GrapheneOS. The battery life is absolutely terrible.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

For me its 2 days when I use it rarely.

[+] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

These people know zilch about security

Agreed, now your mission is OpenBSD

Let's watch if your shit got cared, you can only attacks small projects with peoples who don't want to write portable code (amd64 and aarch64 only) for "security"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The 6 series was when google introduced the tensor which is where the stereotype for worse battery life, worse performance, and less efficient radio come from.

I have a 6a too and for the price it's fine, and I think a lot of the battery concerns are overblown, and for a budget phone competing with other budget phone devices tensor was great. That said the things that would make the tensor in the 7 bad are as present in if not more so in the 6a.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I dont know. I had a 7pro and that thing got hot and was like a tablet. I 100% cannot reproduce this on a 6a. Its battery life is better than my 4a and before my Nokia 7plus.