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As someone not in the free smartphone world (yet) - what is going on? What are those UBports and Braveheart versions people are talking about? How's the softwar

• blihp 6y ago
  The Braveheart edition was pre-release (v1.1) hardware with no OS preinstalled. The Community Editions (CE) are based on release hardware with $10 of the purchase price going to the distro that gets preinstalled. The first one, that many here have in hand currently, was the UBports CE which was the v1.2 hardware with UBports preinstalled. The model you can currently order is the PostmarketOS CE which will be based on the v1.2a hardware (fixes an annoying USB hardware bug and I believe a low-brightness flickering bug as well in v1.2) So while they're different revs of the hardware, it's still the same phone with h/w bug fixes. Define usable ;-) The distros are all very much a work in progress as even basic things like power management and device drivers still under very active development. The hardware of the Pinephone feels pretty solid and the software is just about at a 'hacker friendly' stage where you're not having to deal with fundamental annoyances at the system level. It's still a long way from being 'daily driver' ready though.