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    Best recent phone hardware for install ?

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      • KenedaK Offline
        Keneda @tricky
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        @tricky

        I only said PINE64 open source device can't be compared to Multinationals.

        2015-2023 : Meizu MX4 ☠️⚰️✝️
        2023-2024 : Nexus 5 ☠️⚰️✝️
        2024-***** : FPOS Fairphone 5 waiting UT for freedom 😉
        🇲🇫🇬🇧

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        • LakotaubpL Offline
          Lakotaubp
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          Just getting a little OT for this thread. 🙂

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          • Peter GammaP Offline
            Peter Gamma @Lakotaubp
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            @lakotaubp not me, we can continue discussing.

            PETER GAMMA (Physiologist), MEDITATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE SWITZERLAND

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            • PhoenixLandPiratP Offline
              PhoenixLandPirat
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              Will just say, buying phones with Ubuntu Touch, or at least some varient of linux, such as kde plasma, manjaro, etc, supports our movement more than installing Ubuntu Touch on x, y, z android device.

              So Id personally recommend
              Pinephone,
              Fx(tec) pro x
              Or the volla phone.

              Im saying that from a OnePlus 3, but I have a pinephone, and i plan on continuing down the line of supporting those who support me/my preferences financially.

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                domubpkm
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                There is no miracle UT smartphone. It would be known. There are myriads of issues for every new and old. You have to assume that you don't even know if your own SIM card will be fully compatible : this is my case currently, no internet (like others) with the Volla and Pinephone. So everyone has to make his choice despite all the comments and hope.

                Luckily the first smartphones (BQ, OPO, Nexus5..) which are more and very reliable, are still maintained and I hope that they will remain so as long as necessary..

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                • PhoenixLandPiratP Offline
                  PhoenixLandPirat @domubpkm
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                  @domubpkm Absolutely, rather than "Best recent phone hardware" which leads to peoples personal favourites, and then people get upset when someone says "nah this one is the best because its my favourite" , we should talk about what peoples values are, or desires, if someone wants a better camera, will be different from someone who wants a physical keyboard, which might be different from someone who wants a high end cpu, and someone might hit there price limit at £400.

                  People will fall in different places with all these different questions, and there are a lot more questions than that, if I care about camera, and you dont and you care about a physical keyboard, if we are asked "Whats the best phone" if I say x, and you say y, its possible that we'll get angry and upset at eachother, because we are fighting for a place, rather than being happy with the phone that fits us better.

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                    Peter Gamma @PhoenixLandPirat
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                    @phoenixlandpirat No need to get angry. There is a phone for everyone. Miracles can happen when the cost to power ratio is good, the community for a device is growing, when a company makes a constant effort to have the most recent hardware components. The more people which are using a device, the more interesting it becomes, there are more debuggers and developers, which makes the device more attractive. In my view, chances are best that a Xiaomi device becomes a miracle device.

                    PETER GAMMA (Physiologist), MEDITATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE SWITZERLAND

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                      PhoenixLandPirat @Peter Gamma
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                      @peter-gamma I wasn't angry in anyway, so don't worry about that 🙂

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                        AppLee @Peter Gamma
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                        @peter-gamma
                        I think Xiaomi is the next Google.
                        Their products look good, sound good are not expensive (yet). But later scandal after scandal users will discover the truth behind and quality will decrease...
                        A company is a company, no brand makes only good products, so you still need to compare products.

                        And as for the best hardware to install UT on, the answer is : the more open
                        Less blobs, more open source drivers/firmwares, mainstream kernel, ...
                        Those will help our community as @PhoenixLandPirat already said.

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                        • KenedaK Offline
                          Keneda @AppLee
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                          @applee
                          Totally agree with you, best hardware for open-source software, is open source hardware ^^

                          2015-2023 : Meizu MX4 ☠️⚰️✝️
                          2023-2024 : Nexus 5 ☠️⚰️✝️
                          2024-***** : FPOS Fairphone 5 waiting UT for freedom 😉
                          🇲🇫🇬🇧

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                            Peter Gamma @Keneda
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                            I bought now three Xiaomi devices for the price of the PinePhone I sold on ebay. Now, I can start doing tests. I prefer to have several devices. It is not a big loss if one is bricked. And it is also possible to have different devices with different distros. There is no perfect distro, as there is no perfect phone.

                            PETER GAMMA (Physiologist), MEDITATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE SWITZERLAND

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                              ubuntoutou @cliffcoggin
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                              @mito77 OnePlus 6T is only 2 1/2 years old and has a whooping 6 or 8GB of RAM! You can still buy a brand new one.

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                                cliffcoggin @ubuntoutou
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                                @ubuntoutou said in Best recent phone hardware for install ?:

                                @cliffcoggin OnePlus 6T is only 2 1/2 years old and has a whooping 6 or 8GB of RAM! You can still buy a brand new one.

                                Not sure why you are telling me. I am happy with my 8 year old Nexus 5 that does everything I need.

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                                  Peter Gamma @cliffcoggin
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                                  For me personally, the winner is the port of Ubuntu Touch from Joel for the Xiaomi Poco F1 :

                                  https://forums.ubports.com/topic/4611/xiaomi-poco-f1-beryllium

                                  Joel, a passionate inter-disciplinary programmer who loves to code all night:

                                  https://github.com/joelselvaraj

                                  thanks, Joel, for your great work.

                                  PETER GAMMA (Physiologist), MEDITATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE SWITZERLAND

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                                    L-00514 Banned
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                                    Volla phone might be a good choice but this time i'm going to wait few months to verify if it's really stable before buying it 🙂

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                                      latasuman89
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                                      Im saying that from a OnePlus 3, but I have a pinephone, and i plan on continuing down the line of supporting those who support me/my preferences financially.

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                                        boky
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                                        I want to buy a pinphone, but it doesn't ship to my country), which is very sad. I'm looking closely at Redmi, how much does it fall short of Nexus 5 in terms of functionality?
                                        from of thisit is not clear, since It loses the connection to the cell network.

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                                          stanwood @boky
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                                          @boky I just ordered a Redmi Note 7 to supplement my N5, so I will be able to tell more about issues in 1 week or so.

                                          it seems that the bugs you refer to are from August 2020, they may perhaps have been fixed since then, although the vendor image (LineageOS 16.0) is still the same.

                                          Redmi Note 9S Stable
                                          If God has a computer, it must be a GNU/Linux

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                                            boky @stanwood
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                                            @stanwood Hi. Tell us how the installation went on Redmi Note 7

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                                              stanwood @boky
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                                              @boky To be honest I received it with UT already installed (was owned by an UT developer).
                                              I used the UBports Installer to fresh re-install UT, and it worked perfectly well.
                                              If your device is provided with Android 9, you have to carefully follow UBports Installer instructions.

                                              Redmi Note 9S Stable
                                              If God has a computer, it must be a GNU/Linux

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