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oriesdan | 5 years ago

Hi, thanks for taking questions.

What is the state of the phone call/sms/mms support in Plasma Mobile on Pinephone?

Also : will the CE edition be some sort of Neon mobile, or will it be based on PostmarketOS or something?

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ognarb|5 years ago

Yes it works! SMS and MMS are supported via the application Spacebar. The application got a lot of improvement last months. https://www.plasma-mobile.org/2020/11/12/plasma-mobile-updat...

Calls are also working fine.

The only "exception" being one carrier in the USA does not seem to work with ofono (the underlying framework) yet, but that issue was also with the previous UBports edition.

kop316|5 years ago

Interesting. My Understanding is that MMS is non-fuctional:

https://sr.ht/~anteater/mms-stack/

But I am admittedly more familiar with the Phosh stack versus the KDE stack. Are you then using ofono and that is providing a working MMS support for the Pinephone?

(Sorry I am not trying to be confrontational, it would be amazing if MMS works!)

eckza|5 years ago

This is great news.

Biggest question: Can I send SMS, on this phone, from another computer?

The biggest reason I ditched my iPhone for Android was the excellent implementation of in-browser messaging, to and from my phone, on any computer with a web browser.

I don't need to be able to text from "any computer with a web browser", but if I could send SMS from Win / Mac / Linux machines that I owned, that would be a huge incentive for me to give this platform a shot.

Happpy|5 years ago

Is there auto call recording? Or on the roadmap.

qchris|5 years ago

I hadn't heard about the new support for MMS, that's fantastic news! It's such an important part of group messaging in the U.S. that not having access to it was a huge blocker for me in terms progress towards daily driver status.

oriesdan|5 years ago

That's awesome. Great job!

stonogo|5 years ago

Which carrier?