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Any idea how this fares as a daily driver? The things that matter to me, in descending order:

  - calls
  - SMS
  - battery life
  - mobile data
  - wifi
  - (optional) MMS

I tried looking for this info on their web page but had trouble finding it (not surprising - I assume there is lots of development going on).

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25101115 One of the dev behind plasma mobile commented on that a few days ago.

not about the battery life though. My understanding is that applications must be updated to make the life of the battery manager easier. But that's just guessing on past articles read here and there.

Right now, on Mobian, you will get more or less 2-3 hours of screen on time, with everything enabled (modem, wifi, bluetooth, max screen brightness and doing stuff with it

If you just let it sleep (modem on registered to the network, allowing for voice calls, all the rest of the phone suspended), you'll get about 24 hours of runtime.

I think there's still more power management fixes that can be done, mostly in BT/Wifi, but it's not bad at all for a phone that's still tagged as "dev"

They mention suspend from wakeup on incoming calls drastically improved this month, as did call audio quality. The author is now using it as a daily driver for his sim card, but carries an Android alongside it.

They’re optimistic that it will be a recommendable daily driver for some people (probably like you) by early 2021.

For the majority of distros:

  - calls -> yes (to include VoLTE on a lot of US carriers)
  - SMS -> yes
  - battery life -> not very good (3-4 hours screen time?, less than a day standby)
  - mobile data -> yes
  - wifi ->
  - (optional) MMS -> no

Actually, Sxmo has MMS patches pending on the mailing list which allow receiving and viewing text, audio, and video content: https://lists.sr.ht/~mil/sxmo-devel/patches/14017

EDIT: Wifi works perfectly for me as well, including excellent hotspot (via nmcli)

Holy crap, that is awesome!

It looks like they are asking for testers, but I cannot seem to figure out how to add it. Do you have knowledge on how to do that (or a good place to point to to try it)?

It also looks like it is for downloading MMS only, it doesn't look like it has support (yet) for sending them.

> Wifi works perfectly for me as well, including excellent hotspot (via nmcli)

Sorry, that looks to be a typo by me, I meant to say it works just fine for me.

No MMS last I checked, which is always a bit surprising to me.

Are the developers all outside the US, in countries where MMS isn't used as much so this isn't perceived as a deal breaker? Or is it just a difficult feature to support?

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