If you just let it sleep (modem on registered to the network, allowing for voice calls, all the rest of the phone suspended), you'll get about 24 hours of runtime.
I think there's still more power management fixes that can be done, mostly in BT/Wifi, but it's not bad at all for a phone that's still tagged as "dev"
They’re optimistic that it will be a recommendable daily driver for some people (probably like you) by early 2021.
- calls -> yes (to include VoLTE on a lot of US carriers)
- SMS -> yes
- battery life -> not very good (3-4 hours screen time?, less than a day standby)
- mobile data -> yes
- wifi ->
- (optional) MMS -> noEDIT: Wifi works perfectly for me as well, including excellent hotspot (via nmcli)
It looks like they are asking for testers, but I cannot seem to figure out how to add it. Do you have knowledge on how to do that (or a good place to point to to try it)?
It also looks like it is for downloading MMS only, it doesn't look like it has support (yet) for sending them.
> Wifi works perfectly for me as well, including excellent hotspot (via nmcli)
Sorry, that looks to be a typo by me, I meant to say it works just fine for me.
Are the developers all outside the US, in countries where MMS isn't used as much so this isn't perceived as a deal breaker? Or is it just a difficult feature to support?