Today 10 years ago I went to Poland to buy a Phone with pre installed #Firefox OS on. The Phone was a Alcatel One, so very shitty. Two years later I installed Firefox OS on my Nexus 5 instead.

It was a very good concept, but sadly rolled out on too shitty hardware so it never caught on.

  • Freesoftwareenjoyer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    How is PinePhone Pro now? It’s been over a year since its release and reading on reddit a few months ago it still seemed behind the original PinePhone. I would like to upgrade to the Pro version, but I’m worried it will be another year for it to be stable.

    • Shatur@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I think its on par with the original PP now. I also own PP and I would recommend to upgrade, performance is way better.

      But if you do, I would recommend to use megi’s u-boot fork to improve your battery life.

      • Freesoftwareenjoyer@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        That’s cool! So there aren’t any issues with phone calls anymore? I think people complained about audio quality, but I guess my PinePhone also has some issues like that.

        >But if you do, I would recommend to use megi’s u-boot fork to improve your battery life.

        Doesn’t everything use Tow-Boot now?

        • Shatur@lemmy.mlEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          No call issues at all, I daily drive it.

          > Doesn’t everything use Tow-Boot now?

          Yes, but it’s a distribution of U-Boot and it some releases behind. Megi recently implemented many cool features for U-Boot for PPP and it will take time until they appear in Tow-Boot. So I would recommend to use provided binaries from Megi for now, see his blog for more details: https://xnux.eu/log/091.html.