battery life seems good as I used it all day yesterday and only charged it once towards the end of the day. It's running lineage OS, and performance seems good. If you are leave too many apps open it'll slow down, but other than that, its pretty cool as a secondary phone. Kindle is so much more fun to use on this.
I got it from a guy on the blackberry subreddit over on reddit. he sells a few of them apparently. popping a 256 gb microsd card in this today!
blackberry passport se. converting to android involves an emmc swap so its pretty technical, but the guys working on these on the subreddit seem to know what theyre doing. It runs lineage 18.1 (android 11)
just an internal chip swap and flash with android. still has old internals--32gb storage and 3gb ram. The zinwa p26 will completely modernize the internals of passports (regular passports, not silver editions)
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littlelordfauntleroy@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 339d
How's the performance and battery life? I always wanted a Blackberry!
ghosthacked@lemmy.wtf · 5 pts · 339d
battery life seems good as I used it all day yesterday and only charged it once towards the end of the day. It's running lineage OS, and performance seems good. If you are leave too many apps open it'll slow down, but other than that, its pretty cool as a secondary phone. Kindle is so much more fun to use on this.
I got it from a guy on the blackberry subreddit over on reddit. he sells a few of them apparently. popping a 256 gb microsd card in this today!
littlelordfauntleroy@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 339d
Sweet thanks. I may need to suss this out.
brachypelmide@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 339d
Wow, what a sight! Surprised there was a Lineage ROM for this. What model is this?
ghosthacked@lemmy.wtf · 7 pts · 339d
blackberry passport se. converting to android involves an emmc swap so its pretty technical, but the guys working on these on the subreddit seem to know what theyre doing. It runs lineage 18.1 (android 11)
brachypelmide@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 339d
Oh right, didn't notice the post body. I gotta be honest, I haven't seen a modern-ish phone with a square screen before 😅 Looks awesome!
Winged_Hussar@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 339d
Wow. This is super tempting to try.
urheber@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 339d
I'm drooling it's sooooo amazing
jaemo@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 339d
Is this like a unihertz but with more steps?
ghosthacked@lemmy.wtf · 3 pts · 339d
just an internal chip swap and flash with android. still has old internals--32gb storage and 3gb ram. The zinwa p26 will completely modernize the internals of passports (regular passports, not silver editions)
ghosthacked@lemmy.wtf · 3 pts · 339d
I'm using a samsung microsd card so 288gb of storage
Ilandar@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 339d
Very cool!