Pine64 Phone - Any Devs Who know How to Setup?... Any Early Adopters Here?
by enorbet from LinuxQuestions.org on (#4XR47)
Greetings
I currently use Vonage for voice calls and have a very simple flip-phone mobile/emergencies/text. I'm quite happy with Vonage but although I've been pretty happy with the flip=phone, sometime this year I will be forced to replace it as the Network is going 5G and it doesn't "speak that language".
The Pine64 phone is a lot cheaper than Purism's Libre 5 (almost 5x) and besides the attraction of lesser cost, the main thing is that I have no need or desire for all that extra functionality. All I really care about is text and the ability to make and receive rare calls on the move.
I know a LOT about PCs, both hardware and software, but I know diddly about phone service including how one would setup a phone like Pine64 running Linux to work with any cell network. So I'm appealing to anyone who knows at least something as to how this can be accomplished. What is needed? What networks can be connected to? What providers possibly will even allow such a phone?
I pretty much welcome any commentary. Thank you in advance.
I currently use Vonage for voice calls and have a very simple flip-phone mobile/emergencies/text. I'm quite happy with Vonage but although I've been pretty happy with the flip=phone, sometime this year I will be forced to replace it as the Network is going 5G and it doesn't "speak that language".
The Pine64 phone is a lot cheaper than Purism's Libre 5 (almost 5x) and besides the attraction of lesser cost, the main thing is that I have no need or desire for all that extra functionality. All I really care about is text and the ability to make and receive rare calls on the move.
I know a LOT about PCs, both hardware and software, but I know diddly about phone service including how one would setup a phone like Pine64 running Linux to work with any cell network. So I'm appealing to anyone who knows at least something as to how this can be accomplished. What is needed? What networks can be connected to? What providers possibly will even allow such a phone?
I pretty much welcome any commentary. Thank you in advance.