Re: OT: Which smartphone would you use

2017-09-26 Thread Thomas Hejze
Am Donnerstag, 21. September 2017, 19:48:34 CEST schrieb Matthias Apitz: > > Unfortunately their hardware dos not seem to support Ubuntu any more. I > > found the "Ubuntu Edition" under "obsolete models", even a cyanogen > > edition, but all their current models run on Android. The rest of their >

Re: OT: Which smartphone would you use

2017-09-26 Thread Thomas Hejze
Am Freitag, 22. September 2017, 10:36:45 CEST schrieb Franck Routier: > Hi, Jolla did an official port of SailfishOS to Sony Xperia X hardware. > The only point is the the image is not yet available for purchase, > but it should be a matter of days... > > See https://blog.jolla.com/sailfishx/

Re: OT: Which smartphone would you use

2017-09-22 Thread Franck Routier
Hi, Jolla did an official port of SailfishOS to Sony Xperia X hardware. It's about one year old, but you still can get one in Europe for around 300€. Then you'll have to buy (49€) a Sailfish for Xperia license, and install it. The only point is the the image is not yet available for purchase,

Re: OT: Which smartphone would you use

2017-09-21 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Thursday 21 September 2017 at 6:33:40 PM, in , Thomas Hejze wrote:- > I start to worry for the > future of Open Source. Isn't there a business case > for a FOSS smartphone? I think Fairphone tries, but they still ha

Re: OT: Which smartphone would you use

2017-09-21 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día jueves, septiembre 21, 2017 a las 06:54:43p. m. +0200, Thomas Hejze escribió: > Hi Dotan, > > > Am Montag, 18. September 2017, 19:55:49 CEST schrieb Dotan Cohen: > > The answer pretty much depends on what smartphone features you are > > looking for. Do you need to run a web browser? Emai

Re: OT: Which smartphone would you use

2017-09-21 Thread Thomas Hejze
Am Dienstag, 19. September 2017, 13:44:53 CEST schrieb Andreas Ronnquist: > > If I had the money, I would pledge for one of these: > > https://puri.sm/shop/librem-5/ > That project looks promising, however, I fear I am not able to spend $924.000 for my smartphone ;-) Anyway that is what I a

Re: OT: Which smartphone would you use

2017-09-21 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día jueves, septiembre 21, 2017 a las 07:09:01p. m. +0200, Thomas Hejze escribió: > Am Montag, 18. September 2017, 20:13:14 CEST schrieb Matthias Apitz: > > >> I'm using for more than two years an Ubuntu phone BQ E4.5. The > > >> project was > > >> driven by Canonical and BQ as the hardware OE

Re: OT: Which smartphone would you use

2017-09-21 Thread Thomas Hejze
Am Montag, 18. September 2017, 20:13:14 CEST schrieb Matthias Apitz: > >> I'm using for more than two years an Ubuntu phone BQ E4.5. The > >> project was > >> driven by Canonical and BQ as the hardware OEM. The project > >> died in March of > >> this year, but is now moved to a community of OpenSou

Re: OT: Which smartphone would you use

2017-09-21 Thread Thomas Hejze
Hi Dotan, Am Montag, 18. September 2017, 19:55:49 CEST schrieb Dotan Cohen: > The answer pretty much depends on what smartphone features you are > looking for. Do you need to run a web browser? Email integration? well first of all I would like to make phone calls. I use kdepim for contacts, ca

Re: OT: Which smartphone would you use

2017-09-19 Thread Andreas Ronnquist
On Mon, 18 Sep 2017 17:32:51 +0200, Thomas Hejze wrote: >Hello everyone, >I know this is off-topic, but since it is related to IT security and >therefore more or less to GNUPG, I hope that I get some helping >answers, though. > >Having been objecting to smartphones for a long time I fear that the

Re: OT: Which smartphone would you use

2017-09-18 Thread Mauricio Tavares
On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 2:04 PM, Matthias Apitz wrote: > On Monday, 18 September 2017 17:32:51 CEST, Thomas Hejze > wrote: >> >> Hello everyone, >> I know this is off-topic, but since it is related to IT security and >> therefore more or less to GNUPG, I hope that I get some helping answers, >> t

Re: OT: Which smartphone would you use

2017-09-18 Thread Matthias Apitz
On Monday, 18 September 2017 20:07:38 CEST, Mauricio Tavares wrote: I'm using for more than two years an Ubuntu phone BQ E4.5. The project was driven by Canonical and BQ as the hardware OEM. The project died in March of this year, but is now moved to a community of OpenSource entusiast. Th

Re: OT: Which smartphone would you use

2017-09-18 Thread Dotan Cohen
The answer pretty much depends on what smartphone features you are looking for. Do you need to run a web browser? Email integration? AnkiDroid? A decent camera? Let us know what features you are looking for. On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 6:32 PM, Thomas Hejze wrote: > Hello everyone, > I know this is

Re: OT: Which smartphone would you use

2017-09-18 Thread Matthias Apitz
On Monday, 18 September 2017 17:32:51 CEST, Thomas Hejze wrote: Hello everyone, I know this is off-topic, but since it is related to IT security and therefore more or less to GNUPG, I hope that I get some helping answers, though. Having been objecting to smartphones for a long time I fear t

OT: Which smartphone would you use

2017-09-18 Thread Thomas Hejze
Hello everyone, I know this is off-topic, but since it is related to IT security and therefore more or less to GNUPG, I hope that I get some helping answers, though. Having been objecting to smartphones for a long time I fear that the time has come that I get one for myself. The question is whic