[PLUG] FOSS friendly PDA?

[Brian Stanaland]

I'm not sure what the current status is but Purism has a phone that has
kill switches for the cell radio. https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/



On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 12:22 PM Richard Owlett <rowlett at cloud85.net> wrote:

> On 02/12/2020 09:35 AM, Jason Barbier wrote:
> > I know both these miss the disable the wifi point, unless you unload
> > the kernel module but the gdp pocket and the Gemini both ship versions
> > without cellular modems.
>
> No cell modem would be the minimum. Learning to modify kernel to disable
> the WiFi would be valuable education.
> Are they in current production?
> Do you have current URLs? What I found dated to when they were crowd
> funding.
> Can I avoid Amazon and Ebay?
>
> >
> > As for the pinephone you have to look on the forums about 2019-nconv
> effects are on production but the chances are right now its none because
> they are only shipping in engineering sample batches, that's also why you
> can't find FCC info, it's not yet certified and the braveheart edition
> isn't a production device its a preprod engineering sample. There are also
> no importers of any pine64 stuff that isn't how their businesses operates
> right now. That said I got my pinephone, they were able to mail it straight
> to me, I didn't have to deal with customs at all and its a pretty nice
> mobile data consumption device that I can do wifi surveys with.
>
> I'm not interested in engineering prototypes. I was in engineering
> support in the 70's and 80's. I did testing of PDP-11s related to FCC
> type acceptance. I'll wait for product intended for retail customers.
> The pages I read didn't give me a warm fuzzy feeling that they were even
> aware of FCC type acceptance.
>
> >
> >> On Feb 12, 2020, at 03:56, Richard Owlett <rowlett at cloud85.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> I've explored this issue in the past without finding something:
> >>   in current production.
> >>   meeting my non-negotiable specifications.
> >>   satisfy enough of my preferences to be a good fit to how I do things.
> >>
> >> This is a rewrite of some multiple posts to debian-user and adjusting
> phrasing that caused off topic responses.
> >> I post here as:
> >>   this group is not Debian specific,
> >>   it will provide a different point of view.
> >>
> >>
> >> I wish to enter/store data while away from home. The data will then be
> transferred to my laptop via a USB cable. [think a Palm Pilot in a
> smartphone physical form factor]
> >>
> >> It must use a standard Linux (Debian preferred).
> >> The manufacturer should ship with the Linux installed.
> >> Android is *UNACCEPTABLE*!
> >> It should NOT have cell connectivity.
> >> If it has WiFi, I must be able to disable it.
> >>
> >> When I looked a few years ago there were some open source hardware
> projects in the prototype stage but I don't recall any that reached
> production. [There was something similar based on Raspberry Pi which ended
> up too thick due to how screen was attached.]
> >>
> >> Recently I was pointed to the PinePhone.
> >>   https://www.pine64.org/pinephone
> >>   https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/PinePhone
> >>
> https://www.pine64.org/2020/01/24/setting-the-record-straight-pinephone-misconceptions
> >>
> >> It meets my cell connectivity and WiFi requirements with a set of kill
> switches.
> >> https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/PinePhone#Killswitch_configuration
> >>
> >> I can see practical procurement problems.
> >> The site hasn't updated to report on impact of Coronavirus.
> >> There isn't any indication of any U.S. importer - I don't want to have
> the hassle of handling any duties or FCC type acceptance of the included RF
> components.
> >>
> >> It does have a nice set of specs.
> >>
> >> Any suggestions or survey articles I should read.
> >>
> >> TIA
> >>
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