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What are the critical innovations needed to get the OS usable for a non-tech person only interested in Phonecalls, SMS, and pictures?

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It's pretty much all there, it just needs to be packaged.

Also most people don't like carrying a compass and road atlas like I do so the turn by turn navigation needs to work (KDE marble will stick you on a slippy map and route for you but I don't think it does real time navigation right now.)

I wonder if anyone has evaluated the possibility of porting OsmAnd for navigation.

Since html supports gps, I wonder if there are any web based turn by turn nav apps? I did a quick search and didn't turn up anything current, but a deeper dive might yield something.

Depending on your carrier (I live in the US so I can only speak to them), Calls, MMS, SMS already work just fine.

As far as pictures....the Camera on the OG Pinephone is not great, I would not use it to take serious pictures (or I am bad at taking pictures, which may also be true!). The Pinephone Pro has a much better Camera, but so far, it does not work in software.

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