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Here's my experience:

> At least 20 hours charge

I think I get about 3 days on complete standby (with no sim card)

> Browser

Has had a usable browser for at least half a year.

> Phone audio

Works

> Camera

Its supposed to work on Manjaro at least.

> IM

Someone posted Matrix and Telegram work in a sibling thread

> Native apps

Pretty much everything is native afaik, excluding PWA/electron/emulation

Can't say about the rest, since I didn't really test it much with a SIM card :/

One thing I'll say though, it has(had?) problems with wakeup, ie. if it goes to sleep an alarm or timer wont wake it up.




> I think I get about 3 days on complete standby (with no sim card)

I'm more interested in "realistic usage." Like you I haven't really tested it with a SIM card. Though just from a minute or two with the keyboard I found it impractical for carrying on a conversation over SMS so I don't think I could do a real test of the battery life anyway.

The on-screen keyboard is not actually the main problem, the main problem is just that the thing is very laggy compared to my flagship. I hit the wrong button and then the entire UI locks up and it can take a minute just to get back to the screen I wanted to be on. vs. on my flagship I can jump to the browser, do a search, jump back to messenger, send a message, jump to maps, look at something, and everything happens with typical subsecond responsiveness.


This is my biggest gripe with it at the moment as well, it's horribly unresponsive. I think a UI specifically for mobile will have to be made before it's really useful :/


Ok, thanks to the both of you. I think I'll have to wait it out a bit longer, but I'm excited that it's showing so much progress. Feels at least better than the OpenMoko days.


Some people say it’s already good enough: https://forums.puri.sm/t/librem-5-dogwood-vs-pinephone-pmos-....




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