Librem 5: First Impressions

>>jstanl+(OP)
"WiFi works, no setup required beyond selecting a network and entering the password. Calling works, no setup required beyond installing a SIM card and rebooting. SMS works, no setup required beyond installing a SIM card and rebooting."

Interesting, possibly useful as a daily driver.

Also: link for the best pro comment about linux phones I've read on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26080871

>>marcod+t2
Thanks for the link. Most of those points are still true, except for the middle three about SMS/MMS.

If your distro ships the latest version of Chatty alongside mmsd-tng[0], SMS as well as MMS (both bidirectional) work supremely well, I trialed it as a daily driver for all of last month and didn't drop a single SMS/MMS. MMS attachments (images, didn't try video), group chats, everything was fine.

I still had to configure APN settings manually, but there was no faffing about on the command line, it just worked. All the other points, though, yeah... those are still accurate.

[0] https://gitlab.com/kop316/mmsd

Edit for clarity: this comment (and the link in the parent) references the PinePhone, not the Librem 5, though they're roughly comparable devices

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