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I carry around a Pinephone with my personal SIM and use it for most personal activities. I also carry about a work phone, which I use for work, and personal act
by ppcar 5y ago
I carry around a Pinephone with my personal SIM and use it for most personal activities. I also carry about a work phone, which I use for work, and personal activites that I can't yet do on the Pinephone (maps, chromecast, etc.)
It's liberating to have plain old Linux on my phone. My phone is now introspectable, behaves like my other computers, and only runs software that does not track me.
I hack on these and am excited to see how well these continue to mature.
The Pinephone is too underpowered (camera, 2.4GHz, small battery) to be the a viable choice for most interested folks.
The Pinephone is the phone that will jumpstart developers and early adopters to building an ecosystem, and facilitate more powerful phones.
- karussell 5y agoCan you explain why you have to use a different phone for maps? Couldn't you use a browser? Or do you mean navigation? And is the GPS device optional or always included for all pinephones?
- ppcar 5y agoI use GNOME Maps for some things, but it doesn't do navigation. I think GPS is always included on all Pinephones: https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/PinePhone#GPS_.2F_GNSS https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/PinePhone#GPS_.2F_GNSS
- intricatedetail 5y agoYou are still being tracked if you carry that other phone though.
- ppcar 5y agoYou're right. I would prefer no tracking, but am happy with having reduced the amount of tracking that occurs.
- d110af5ccf 5y agoCarriers in the US were recently caught selling e911 location data so you should probably assume that you're being tracked while carrying any device with an active cell network connection.