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Mobian 
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| Version Tested
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mobian-pinephone-phosh-20201215
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| UI Shell
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Phosh
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| Features
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| General System
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- ✅ Copy / paste works
- ✅ WIFI works
- ✅ WAN works
- ✅ App switching works,
- ✅❌ Headphone jack works, but require additional settings change to output audio to headphones.
- ❌ Phone crashed and needed restart several times over ~10 days with relatively light usage.
- ❌ UX to place/move typing cursor hard to use
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| Phone Calls
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- dialing in
- dialing out
- speaker mode
- mute
- call quality
- Contacts integration
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App: Calls (Stock App)
- ✅ Can make / receive calls with decent call quality.
- ✅ Speaker mode works.
- ✅ Displays contact names properly in call history panel for phone numbers that stored in contacts.
- ❌⬆ Cellular connection sometimes terminate and does not reconnect after about a day of usage. Re-locking and unlocking the phone sometimes fixes it.
- ❌ Calls sometimes does not have incoming audio. Toggle to speaker mode fixes that problem.
- ❌ When playing audio in another app, incoming phone call has no incoming audio.
- ❌ ⬇No integration to contacts or SMS app from call history panel. (No way to add new phone number to address book; no way to reply by text to a number in call history panel.)
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| SMS/MMS
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- Sending text
- Receiving text
- Group MMS
- Sending image (MMS)
- Receiving image (MMS)
- Contacts integration
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App: Chats (stock app)
- ✅ Can send / receive text messages.
- ❌ No MMS support (cannot send/receive images or group text)
- ❌ No sound/vibrate notification when receiving text when the SMS app is in focus, even when phone is locked.
- ❌ "Add contact" (to address book) does not work
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| Email
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- Sending / Receiving emails
- Contacts integration
- downloading / uploading attachments
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App: Geary (Stock App)
- ❌⬆ No way to specify authentication method / port for IMAP (as a result, probably does not support a lot of different IMAP configs)
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| Map
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- GPS location
- building / landmark search
- directions
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App: Maps (Stock App)
- ✅ Can get GPS location
- ✅ Can search for landmarks
- ✅ Can search for directions to places
- ❌ search UI not phone optimized (difficult if not impossible to see some text / buttons).
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| Browser
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App: GNOME Web (Stock App)
- ✅ Basic browsing works
- ✅ Audio playback continues in background
- ✅❌ Multiple tabs work, although attempting to close one tab prompts UI/UX inconsistent with Phosh.
- ❌⬇ YouTube plays, but with low frame rate (<10FPS)
- ❌⬇ When phone is locked, audio playback stops after a while (5mins), but resumes on awaking phone (no unlocking needed)
App: Firefox (Stock App)
- ✅ Basic browsing works
- ✅ Audio playback continues in background
- ✅ YouTube plays with good frame rate
- ❌⬇ When phone is locked, audio playback stops after a while (5mins), but resumes on awaking phone (no unlocking needed)
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