This Phone Has a Different Story! 

Mobile service after we die 💀💀

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the customer service is actually incredible. The folks at purism are very active and friendly and are active participants of the Linux community!

​@@anirbandutta6913they are not even giving refund.. how can you it's good customer service

here before this blows up!

What is the niche according to u , which u r saying? Pls share❤

I was shocked when I saw this video on my feed lmao Mainstream Indian mobile youtuber is talking about linux on mobile... not even ubuntu touch, this is straight up phosh/gnome mobile

Agree

Exactly 💯

Mrwhosetheboss done a better Job a couple of years back

You mean Nothing Phone?

Nothing stops you from sandboxing android apps on this using waydroid Takes some setup but it's doable

​@@aman.vashisht😂

​@@aman.vashisht😂😂😂

Nah bro. Nothing isn't good cuz it runs android 😂and it's unreliable

😂 Some time I think I'm the only one worried about Tardy and schedule , Accountability. Imagine spending $ 1,299 in advance and hoping it will delivered in 4 years. 😮 My friend have lots of patience

​@@AMAZINGGRACEMARATHIit was $799 back in the day but still, crazy stuff

The 4 years had multiple reasons though. First of all nobody expected COVID to happen. Additionally they could not switch out any important hardware parts they selected to build it because they were also set to implement open-source drivers and firmware for them as well as guaranteeing customers firmware support. Then another problem was that the SoC they use for the device gets used in the automobile industry as well. So they pretty much run straight into heavy supply chain issues.

That feels a little redundant on this one :p

​@@Vancha112true, the camera doesn't even get eletric current when the switch is turned off lol

@@softwarelivre2389 right ^^

Hardware switches are definitely better. You can even save up battery life, turning things off and the software looses signal immediately.

That is Phosh shell, beboom should have tried gnome mobile os

Yup PMOS

The plan is to switch from Phosh to GNOME in the future, I assume. Currently Phosh is still favorable over GNOME shell, even with its mobile layout patches.

yes!

Well, it can make calls, SMS, use calculator and flashlight. Access the web and play some games. It will get better some day, I hope so.

@@softwarelivre2389 It can do a lot more than that. It can pretty much do whatever a Linux desktop can do. The hardware specs just get in between at times.

@@thejackimonster9689 it was a joke, my friend. The main problem is not even the hardware, but the lack of development still

@@softwarelivre2389 Which lack of development? I got new kernel updates today. I can run latest version of any flatpak app easily. Pretty much every week I can update some piece of software on it, since you have access to rolling release app cycles and Purism still does active development on their end just with less frequent updates.

Gnome itself trying to port to mobile form factor with libadwita and libhandy, actually this is Phosh shell.. gnome is developing their own mobile os named as gnome os mobile and that looks good you can find that on RU-vid

The user interface (phone shell) is called Phosh. There is also a official GNOME Shell Mobile which is pretty different. There is also KDE Plasma Mobile

Nothing stops you from loading waydroid to run android apps on this It'll not perform the same way but it's pretty good on something like a pinephone or an android first phone running linux mobile like pmOS or droidian

I generally watch many tech RU-vidrs. But beebom tops my priority list

Its laptop’s wifi card.

Agreed

It is not exactly for daily uses, but it is the first step

Oh and please put "Librem 5" or something like that in the title so we know what device it is when we search for it. I'm afraid to not find this video again when I try to send it to my friends.

You mean separate switches for camera and microphone? Because the switch shutting off the camera will also disable the microphone.

Pinephone?

Android usually comes with big limitations though. The typical Android you get out of the box, isn't rooted. If you want to install whatever you want, you need to tinker with adb, developer settings or some custom FOSS store apps. You can't easily develop apps on your Android device while PureOS gives you tools like git, ssh, gcc and more from its repository. It's effectively a Linux desktop in the palm of your hands.

Depends... The OS does not come with a permission model like Android. So in case you want to run some third-party software which you don't fully trust, it's very easy to restrict that. Also you don't need to trust the OS in all cases. After all even Android could have an unknown vulnerability which potentially leaks access to your camera or microphone. In such a case a hardware switch would still restrict an attacker. Also in some countries you want to make sure not being tracked at all cost, even as civilian (for example during some protests). In such a case you can kill base band modem and wifi modem completely. So it's not possible to track you via your phone. But you will still have access to some functionality of your phone.

Have you missed the whole part about modularity? :P

You can do quite a lot. You currently just need to tinker a bit getting things working depending on what you want to do. For example I have no issues using Signal and Telegram on it. Listening to music is totally fine. But you can also use it to enter your home server from terminal and reconfiguring it via ssh. Theoretically even some Android apps run via a compatibility layer on it. So it's effectively a Linux desktop controlled via touch screen.

It is running gnome in an implementation known as phosh and anything with the linux kernel is linux based so yes it is.