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  Re: non-smart debian phone  Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com> - 2020-08-07 07:50 +0200
    Re: non-smart debian phone Dan Hitt <dan.hitt@gmail.com> - 2020-08-27 22:30 +0200
      Re: non-smart debian phone Keith Bainbridge <keithrbaugroups@gmail.com> - 2020-08-30 06:10 +0200
        Re: non-smart debian phone Dan Hitt <dan.hitt@gmail.com> - 2020-08-30 19:10 +0200

#225966 — Re: non-smart debian phone

Is the screen really a show-stopper?  If not, how about getting a
PinePhone CE, and running Mobian or postmarketOS on it?

https://store.pine64.org/product/pinephone-community-edition-postmarketos-with-convergence-package-limited-edition-linux-smartphone/

-r


> From: Dan Hitt <dan.hitt@gmail.com>
> Subject: non-smart debian phone
> Date: August 5, 2020 at 21:38:40 PDT
> To: debian-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> 
> I plan to get a non-smart phone to replace my smart phone.
> 
> By non-smart, i mean that it does not have a touch screen.
> 
> However, it might be reasonable for it to have a usb port not just for charging, but for communication with my computer.  Conceivably it might be useful to download voice mail to my computer, for example, or maybe to play through its speakers.
> 
> It would be nice if it ran a free operating system, such as debian.
> 
> Does anybody have any experience along these lines, or advice?
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> dan

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On Thu, Aug 6, 2020 at 10:42 PM Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com> wrote:

> Is the screen really a show-stopper?  If not, how about getting a
> PinePhone CE, and running Mobian or postmarketOS on it?
>
>
> https://store.pine64.org/product/pinephone-community-edition-postmarketos-with-convergence-package-limited-edition-linux-smartphone/
>
> -r
>
>
Hi Rich,

Thanks for posting.

So i ended up doing just what i did not want to do, and i'm back in Android
land.  My reason is because the network provider, Mint, offered 3 months at
$15/month, at least as a teaser, and they sold me some screen phone with
android for about $60.

The deal with Mint is they require phones which are "4G LTE and VoLTE
friendly".

So i think my search should have been for the right network, which can
support the kind of device i want (namely, something as close to the free
world as possible).

So next time i search, i hope to do it more intelligently.

dan

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On 28/8/20 6:23 am, Dan Hitt wrote:
> 
> So next time i search, i hope to do it more intelligently.
> 

So why not start the search now, while you have time to think about it 
for a bit before you need to jump in?

-- 
Keith Bainbridge

keithrbaugroups@gmail.com
or ke1thozgroups@gmx.com

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On Sat, Aug 29, 2020 at 9:07 PM Keith Bainbridge <keithrbaugroups@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 28/8/20 6:23 am, Dan Hitt wrote:
> >
> > So next time i search, i hope to do it more intelligently.
> >
>
> So why not start the search now, while you have time to think about it
> for a bit before you need to jump in?
>
>
Why, indeed?

I suppose that would entail getting a list of carriers and a list of
phones, and then checking the phones against the carriers.

There seem to be sites that do compatibility checks (e.g.,
willmyphonework.net) so i guess this is possible in principle, although i
could not find either 'librem' or 'purism'  on their list.  But they do
have a way of submitting queries for items not on their list, so maybe i'm
not trying hard enough.  (Although i am looking for something more modest
than librem.)

Anyhow, i'm all ears to hear of anybody's experience in choosing a phone
which runs free software (like debian, or some of the others that people
have mentioned) and what carrier they use.  Especially if it is an
out-of-the-box experience, but also if it involves installation on an
existing phone.

And, if you install a new os on an existing phone, do you first have to
activate the phone with some carrier, or can you just plug your phone into
a monitor and keyboard and do the installation of the os just like you
would on your pc, and then go through the activation with a carrier?

And thanks for posting, Keith!

dan

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