LINux on MOBile - impressionsLINMOB.net is a blog about LINux on MOBile devices. With the PinePhone (Pro) and Librem 5 shipping it is back to report on GNU+Linux on mobile devices.Zola2020-06-14T16:42:18+00:00https://linmob.net/tags/impressions/feed.xmlPinePhone Hardware - Early Impressions2020-06-14T16:42:18+00:002020-06-14T16:42:18+00:00https://linmob.net/early-impressions-pinephone-hardware/<p>After almost a week playing with the Pine64 <a href="https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/">PinePhone</a> I want to share some overall impressions. As <a href="https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php?title=PinePhone_Software_Releases">software</a> is at least partially not quite adapted to this <a href="https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php?title=PinePhone#Hardware_Revisions">new 1.2 hardware revision</a>, I will limit myself to the hardware for this post and proceed from the outside to the inside.</p>
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<p>The great thing about the PinePhone upon taking it out of the box is: This feels just like a smartphone. It does not feel like some strange thick tinkerphone. Surely, it does not follow the latest design trends, but the bezels around the screen and the screen to body ratio is certainly not terrible either. The pastic feels plasticky, but it does not—at least in my opinion—feel cheap. Overall, considering the price of device and the economies of scales of the production of this device, I really think that this phone feels amazingly well made. </p>
<p><em>So let's get to the specifications:</em> The screen is pretty big with 5.95", but it does not stand out as a giant among the smartphones of 2020. A 720x1440 px resolution is not what I would call super high res, and it does not meet Apples retina criterium at 271 ppi. But it certainly is good enough, and it is a overall a screen that I would describe as fine. Sure, a higher res could have been better, but you have to take the other parts of this phone into your consideration. The Allwinner A64 SoC has a ARM Mali 400 MP2 GPU, which is not exactly the fanciest—it was announced <a href="https://www.notebookcheck.net/ARM-Mali-400-MP2.116279.0.html">in mid 2008</a>. A higher screen resolution would have put the GPU under even more pressure—I think Pine64 chose wisely when they went with the 720p screen. The <a href="https://www.quectel.com/product/eg25g.htm">Quectel EG25-G</a> modem is also a great choice, as it supports many different bands, enabling Pine64 to not have to make different SKUs for different continents.</p>
<p>One thing I wasn't that happy about when the PinePhone was announced were the choice of <a href="https://linux-sunxi.org/A64">chipset</a> (although it was not that surprising, as you could call Pine64 PineA64 if you wanted to, as all their devices without the "pro" label use that SoC), and the amount of RAM which is not too plenty by todays standards at 2 GB. I was even more sceptical because of the Wireless LAN chipset: The PinePhone has a Realtek Wifi+BT chipset (RTL8723CS), and my experience with Realtek Wifi had always been bad at best. After using it for a couple of days I must say, that all these choices are fine. You just have to consider the price, and hey, it all works.</p>
<p>One possible shortcoming of the design is one I really did not expect: Pine64 decided to adopt a battery design used by the Samsung Galaxy J7 2015, a midrange Android phone. The battery is not small with 10-11 WH capacity, but just consider that <a href="https://twitter.com/Mariogrip/status/1271248916349140994">UBports have boasted lately</a> that they managed to get idle time to up to 14 hours. So, if you are looking forward to getting all day battery life while using your PinePhone a lot... well, that may take a while or be just plain impossible. Unfortunately I could not find extended batteries for the J7 2015, but still, that might become a thing in the future. We'll see.
Also, there's a design bug, that renders <a href="http://xnux.eu/devices/pine64-pinephone.html">USB-OTG DisplayPort Alt mode broken</a>.</p>
<p>Overall, I must say that I am quite <em>happy</em> with my purchase. The PinePhone is a great device for the price—and it is only going to get better.</p>
Samsung Galaxy SII (GT-I9100) - Review2011-07-09T12:54:00+00:002011-07-09T12:54:00+00:00https://linmob.net/samsung-galaxy-sii-gt-i9100-review/<p><em>After about three weeks I feel ready to write this late review on the Samsung Galaxy SII, an Android best seller. I have been using it, switched back to my Acer Stream (2010 gen.), compared it to the Pre Plus and the old and dusty T-Mobile G1 to come to the conclusions I will share now. The Galaxy SII in question was running Android 2.3.3, build Gingerbread.XWKE2.</em></p>
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<p>The first thing one notices when one gets the SGSII is: “Wow, that IS a small box.” The next is, after opening the box: “The box couldn't be smaller.” One takes it out and thinks: “Hey, that is thin and light”. A second later one notices, that the battery isn't inside the phone yet - I could go on like this, but who would read it like that.</p>
<h3 id="hardware">HARDWARE</h3>
<p>It's thin (8.49mm), but huge - and light (119g). It's fast, a 1.2GHz Dual Core ARM Cortex A9 chipset, accompanied by ARM Mali 400 MP graphics (developed and made by Samsung, called Exynos 4210) and 1GB of RAM provide a stutter free Android experience on a WVGA (800x480) Super AMOLED Plus screen (12 subpixels. 16GB of onboard storage (microSD slot is there, too), an 8 Megapixel Camera with LED flash, a 2MP front camera and a HSPA+ capable 3G module make the spec sheet complete.</p>
<p>While the device feels good and solid in my rather large hands (at first I found it a little bit to light and was terribly afraid of breaking it), the hardware has its weaknesses - I don't want to comment on the plastic skin of the device, which makes it so super light and feels sturdy, but on the button of the SGSII, which are.. well, not that great.</p>
<p>First of all, there is the missing camera button. Not that I would particularly like dedicated camera buttons, but with such a good and quickly starting camera like the one of the Samsung Galaxy SII, this IS annoying, as starting the camera becomes more interesting, as you know that you could do a quick shot if only there was a dedicated button (or maybe a lockscreen option, though that would be slightly inferior in my opinion) to start the camera. But there is none, and so you find yourself searching hectically for that camera shortcut - I placed one on every homescreen, but that's an ugly hack.</p>
<p>The three buttons the SGSII has on it the sides, volume up and down and power, are, to make this button game even worse, poorly placed, on opposite sides at the same height. This made me hating them, as I, while short pressing the power button to save power by switching the screen off, often accidentally raised the volume without noticing. Think of sitting in a business meeting (or a lecture at school or university, or in a play at the theatre) and your phone starts ringing loudly - it didn't happen to me, but that was because I was lucky. I believe that Samsung should have placed both buttons on one side or moved the power button to where the iPhone has its - if technically feasible, they should do that for their next superphone, even if that means an extra millimeter of thickness.</p>
<p>These are the most annoying buttons, and I've got to say that the one physical, surrounded by two capacative ones, sitting right under the screen, aren't that great, too. As Samsung seems to be trying to resemble the iPhone as good as possible, they didn't watch usability here. While there is nothing to complain about the physical Home Button, the other two (you can configure their illumination in the settings, which is a nice touch) are so close to the bright and amazingly colorful screen (I didn't miss qHD resolution, though more is always better ;) ), without anything that makes a haptic difference and at a low height of 14 millimeters, that it occurs that you touch them while trying to access the buttons of an application or the other way round - especially while you're in a haste.</p>
<p>One more thing: There is no notification LED on the SGSII.</p>
<p>Nonetheless, all these issues are negligible, the Galaxy SII is a great hardware, that looks awesome (while sort of knock-offy), sometimes at expense of usability.</p>
<h3 id="software">SOFTWARE</h3>
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<p>The Android 2.3.3 software (as reviewed, I will update to 2.3.4 right after this review, unfortunately not OTA) doesn't come stock but has a layer on top of it, that is custom to Samsung devices and has the name TouchWiz, iteration 4.0. With 4 buttons at the bottom it resembles a well known fruit phone. Besides that, Samsung has replaced many icons, and added in blue as an additional color.</p>
<p>While speed and responsibility aren't harmed by TouchWiz (which is a notable thing, as other custom layers, like the ones of LG, Motorola (Motoblur), Sony Ericsson, and HTC (Sense) have been reported to slow the phones down - to there defense I have to add that the customization's of the latter two change a lot more), my eyes and usability are.</p>
<p>It's a personal thing, but I find these TouchWiz icons ugly in comparison to what Android 2.3.x (Gingerbread) delivers. While the colored buttons in the settings menu may help some, the changed battery icon definitely doesn't - it's always green, while the stock icon features different colors that help illustrating the battery status.</p>
<p>Samsung has added some applications in, as all manufacturers seem unable to resist to (this, BTW, is a great pro of the Nexus series). Most prominently these are the 4 Hubs (Social Hub, Gaming Hub, Readers Hub and Music Hub), that offer you content for money - even the Social Hub, which just comes with a limited feature set. All of these hubs seem to be an attempt to build an ecosystem like the one Apple offers - but it's no more than an attempt in my opinion. In addition to this, there is “Samsung Apps”, an application market which offers you a bunch of free Apps, among these many, that are in the Android Market anyway (which is still crowded and appears sort of unorganized). It has some special Samsung applications in the “Utilities” section, which are quite usable though (many of these come preinstalled, but not all), including Kies Air (which is great, you connect your Phone to your PC via WiFi and can access the phones data via your PCs browser), Samsung Remote, Samsung Mobile Print and a tool which you can use to update your phones camera firmware.
The most welcomed additions by Samsung to Android (they have added in a custom email app (somehow connected to that Social Hub crapware, customized dialer, contacts, calendar in a million small ways that don't add value in my humble opinion) are 3 three preinstalled apps: A Video editor, a picture editor and Polaris Office, which allows to view and edit Microsoft Office documents (+ view PDF). While all of these apps surely have a limited feature set (this is mobile!), they come in nice and handy and one is glad to have them. Swype is a nice addition that deserves to be mentioned, too.</p>
<p>A friend of mine just bought a SGSII (as his first real smartphone), and I want to share his first impression with Samsungs Software stuff (translated):</p>
<p><em>“I’ve now bought the SII 9100: D and I’m still happy ….. I wonder just how much garbage is already on the homescreens - mega lots of windows for gaming hub, movie hub, … etc - if you use them, does that cost money? Are these applications where one has to download stuff et cetera or where you are directed into a store?”</em></p>
<p>Sounds like <strong>fail</strong>, Samsung!</p>
<h3 id="usability-multitasking-software-side">USABILITY/MULTITASKING (Software side)</h3>
<p>Well, this is Android. Usability on Android has never been exactly award winning, and Samsung didn't manage to really improve this with TouchWiz 4.0, which makes the whole TouchWiz story even more disappointing. Multitasking on Android means using a “Share” option (when you want to send something to another App) or using the Home Button with a short or a long press. While short press brings you back to the homescreen where you left of (another press then directs you to the first homescreen in TouchWiz (as opposed to the one in the middle on stock Android), a long press on the SGSII's home button leads you to a Screen showing the “Recently used Applications”. This seems nice, but say you've got a notification (new email) and entered your email app using the Notification area (which Samsung enhanced nicely, though CM does this in a better way), you won't find that email app among the recent apps that pop up after another long press after you've gone elsewhere (e.g. browser, to look things up). Google should really improve this in Ice Cream Sandwich, the next Android release which is going to unite smartphone (Gingerbread, 2.3.<em>) and tablet (Honeycomb 3.</em>) branches of Android again.
And then there's this Menu Button, which, mostly because of bad usability decisions by App developers is a pain in the neck - comparable platforms like iOS or WP7 don't have such a button, which shows that it isn't necessary - in fact this button is a relic of the early days when Android was developed to become a Blackberry competitor using Googles services.
None of these things are genuinely Samsung's fault though, it's a problem of Android itself.</p>
<h3 id="performance">PERFORMANCE</h3>
<p>Nothing to complain here. It's fast, it's fluid - I experienced crashes using 3rd party applications, but that's most likely not Samsungs fault. It's on a speed experience level with the latest fruit phone. However, for those of you into gaming, you may consider to get a nVidia Tegra2 powered device (such as the LG P990 or the Motorola Atrix, which both have more flaws then the SGSII), as these feature the Tegra Zone with special games - what Samsung offers in their “Samsung Apps” can't compete yet.</p>
<h3 id="battery-life">BATTERY LIFE</h3>
<p>Well, it's OK. It worked a day for me usually, and I am pretty hard on my phones - the SGS II did better than the Palm Pre Plus or the Acer Stream. I could criticize some of the Power Saving Mode stuff Samsung did (no revert to 2G, etc. pp.), but at least they tried to help users with power saving. What's annoying: Once battery drops under 10%, you can't take anymore pictures. Doesn't make sense to me.</p>
<h3 id="accessories">ACCESSORIES</h3>
<p>Samsung doesn't put much into the small box. Among a wall charger and an USB cable and an everlasting Quick Manual, all you find is a surprisingly good in ear headset, which really sounds good. I am going to get myself one of these for my Palm Pre Plus as it just is a lot better (though not as good in the looks department - but, as you know, beauty is in the eye of the beholder).</p>
<h3 id="verdict">VERDICT</b></h3>
<p>The Galaxy SII is a good phone, that offers great performance. Samsung really did a good job with the Exynos chipset - unfortunately the phone doesn't deserve the title “great” due to aforementioned issues. Many of the issues, mostly those on the software side are fixable - if they aren't fixed by Samsung, the community will attempt to do so.</p>
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<li>huge, great, responsive, colorful Super AMOLED + touchscreen</li>
<li>thin</li>
<li>Camera</li>
<li>fast. really fast!</li>
<li>battery life is really ok for such a beast</li>
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<li>TouchWiz / Samsung Software additions don't add much</li>
<li>no Camera button, overall button placement</li>
<li>WiFi isn't that good</li>
<li>Multitasking isn't always fun thanks to Androids UX</li>
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Samsung Galaxy SII - More Impressions2011-06-16T15:55:00+00:002011-06-16T15:55:00+00:00https://linmob.net/samsung-galaxy-sii-more-impressions/<p>This time it's a video, because I didn't feel like writing a long story. More detailed impressions will follow as soon as I have got ideas or questions to answer. If you want to see what I find noteworthy, feel free to check out the <a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/106783261023883900993/SamsungGalaxyS2?authkey=Gv1sRgCIb0pPX6tNi80gE&feat=directlink">latest screen shots on Picasa</a> - I will try to submit some daily.</p>
<p>LINMOBnet on YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utyOU2qq538">Samsung Galaxy S2 - More Impressions - Part 1</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sdg3wDfIK_o">Part 2</a></p>
A day at CeBIT. Again.2011-03-04T08:11:00+00:002011-03-04T08:11:00+00:00https://linmob.net/a-day-at-cebit-again/<p>I am starting this very subjective write up sitting on a chair in the Webciety’s Bloggers Lounge and I feel pretty tired and exhausted - it's just as it has been the years before. You walk around all day and spend time out there, go hands on with the few devices you are interested here, talk to booth people… There are great moments and less great - this time there were few less great ones, even the sun was shining all the time, which I never experienced in CeBIT seasons Hannover.</p>
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<p>After having strolled around many booths in many halls, I visited a place that is a must for a guy writing about Linux, the Open Source park, which is a rather small area full of people that show off their more or less popular projects. Among many business related projects (including some I've never heard of, as I am a little bit ashamed to admit) and more popular ones like Firefox 4 and LibreOffice I stumbled on a small Enlightenment corner and there on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carsten_Haitzler">Carsten "raster" Haitzler</a>, who, as some of you may remember, was once involved into the Openmoko project. I talked to him for quite some time, first in german (as his father's german) then in english about Linux, Android, toolkits on mobile devices. As you can read on his <a href="http://www.rasterman.com/index.php?page=News">website </a>as well, he's with Samsung now, who are investing heavily into Enlightenment to build a platform on - which will actually be <a href="https://linmob.net/2011/02/mwc2011-day-1.html">LiMo r4</a> compliant (there is EFL in LiMo r4, not only GTK+, cairo, clutter and so on). He showed me some EFL demos on an obviously Samsung built device on par with Galaxy S (using Hummingbird and an (approx.) 3.7" WVGA screen) - most likely a developer model of the never released<a href="http://www.slashgear.com/samsung-i8330-aka-vodafone-h2-limo-phone-leaks-2687073/"> Samsung H2 / GT-i8330 hardware</a>, which was supposed to be released during last summer, but didn't make it (at least on Vodafone in Europe). I think I will write a dedicated article about what we talked about as soon as possible, because it really was great to talk about the downfall of MeeGo (back to Moblin, mostly - a fact he wasn't too unhappy about, working on LiMo, which is certainly a rival to MeeGo on handsets.</p>
<p>Besides that, I didn't hang out for too long in CeBIT's OpenSource paradise (it was so crowded!) and headed on to webciety to get a little rest while listening to some panels I didn't plan to listen too (at the one I had on my schedule, one about tablets with the MeetMobility guys + 2 others (a Qualcomm representive + @petweetpetweet) I arrived late, just to get a rest after all these tablet hands ons (in fact I used my partly broken (headset jack) Palm Pre to capture a hands on with the Hanvon A116 tablet, but I will have to edit it before uploading, so don't expect that before saturday) and walking (I liked both ASUS Android tablets I wrote about recently (the MeMO and the Transformer, of which the latter really features amazing build quality and a really great finish), and then went on to have a look at some more devices before coming back late to the panel I just mentioned. After that, I managed to talk to<a href="http://twitter.com/sascha_p"> @sascha_p</a> for a few minutes, exchange business cards and head on to Huawei, were I had a look at their Android devices, entry level and up before "winning" a Vodafone 246 dumb phone at the stand of a popular german PC magazine, which was about the last thing I did before heading out to catch my train.</p>
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<p>Edit 2023-07-23: Turns out, I also took a video of some Windows Phone device:
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Frustration2010-10-27T23:16:00+00:002010-10-27T23:16:00+00:00https://linmob.net/frustration-2/<p>I've been preparing to publish something here for quite some time. I started a writeup on smartphone platforms while sitting in the train on the way back from an useless job interview in Munich. I didn't finish it, had other things to do, my parents were on holidays nearby, and I had another stupid test to pass. While I was working on that, I had to learn the hard way why exactly Apple came up with their Magsafe stuff: The power supply of my netbook somehow managed to pull it down when I stood up from my desk. Screen broken. Nice black area on the right of the screen. I most likely won't fix it. I will rather sell it, and buy something that's more helpful and an additional battery for my 14” notebook.</p>
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<p>In addition to that, another semester has started. As I hate printing all the stuff you need to be prepared at lectures and later be prepared at the examination, simply because it takes so long, is an effing waste of natural resources and it's a pain in the neck to carry all that paper along whenever you travel in order to be able to work, I tried to find something that could fit my workflow. An electronic device, like Amazons kindle, plus some features to be able to make annotations during lectures. I hear someone shouting TabletPC. Sorry, that's not it. It can do too much else and thus distract me badly, it's heavy, expensive and in addition to that, most TabletPCs have a terrible battery life.</p>
<p>And don't talk me into the iPad or an Android tablet. They seem (if my inquiries weren't too bad) to lack the appropriate software - not to mention their sunlight readability. It's too bad that there are so few tablets using Wacom technology. </p>
<p>Really, the only device that's close to fit and available is made by Apple, and I am not talking of any iOS device here. I think of getting one of these crazy Newton MessagePads. Unfortunately, those that are (relatively) powerful and thus interesting (2000, 2100) are rare and still expensive, and then there is another drawback: Apparently no PDF support. PDF just wasn't that popular in the 1990s. Converting is possible, maybe it would even work out.</p>
<p>But really: Isn't it effing frustrating that there is no effing device that is really suitable to survive University without having to carry a huge load of paper? Is this market so uninteresting? </p>
<p>Maybe I should turn this disaster into a business plan.</p>
<p>(<a href="https://brimborium.net/frustration">Crossposting, originally posted at brimborium.net</a>)</p>