<story><title>I Love My PinePhone</title><url>https://jakob.space/blog/i-love-my-pinephone.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nousermane</author><text>&amp;gt; core features of a modern smartphone: consistent alarms&lt;p&gt;For me personally, this is one thing &lt;i&gt;missing&lt;/i&gt; from a modern smartphone. Many old-school GSM phones, when completely turned off (but battery still inside), if there is an alarm programmed, will turn on automatically few seconds before the programmed alarm, just in time to sound on the dot.&lt;p&gt;Very useful, and exactly what I want, when I go to sleep. You can sort of approximate that with &amp;quot;do not disturb&amp;quot; mode, but that drains a bit of battery (and traffic in cell data plan) uselessly.</text></item><item><author>krageon</author><text>This person doesn&amp;#x27;t need the core features of a modern smartphone: consistent alarms and reliable connectivity. As such, it is no wonder they love the pinephone: it is essentially a tiny laptop!&lt;p&gt;That said, I don&amp;#x27;t find this very compelling: I am in fact called by people and I don&amp;#x27;t think having to implement a hack around the system&amp;#x27;s sleep state is acceptable (especially given that it may still not be reliable, what with the dependability profile of the connectivity chipset). It may be more accurate to call this a Pine: Not much of a phone to be found.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>megous</author><text>This works on pinephone and pinephone pro, too.&lt;p&gt;On Pinephone, the RTC(has alarm support) is in the SoC and is always powered by PMIC even when the phone is off. PMIC can be configured to power up on interrupt signal, and SoC can be configured to pulldown the interrupt line on RTC alarm.&lt;p&gt;On Pro RTC is inside PMIC directly.&lt;p&gt;HW can do it. Alarm app just has to use the HW correctly.</text></comment>
<story><title>I Love My PinePhone</title><url>https://jakob.space/blog/i-love-my-pinephone.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nousermane</author><text>&amp;gt; core features of a modern smartphone: consistent alarms&lt;p&gt;For me personally, this is one thing &lt;i&gt;missing&lt;/i&gt; from a modern smartphone. Many old-school GSM phones, when completely turned off (but battery still inside), if there is an alarm programmed, will turn on automatically few seconds before the programmed alarm, just in time to sound on the dot.&lt;p&gt;Very useful, and exactly what I want, when I go to sleep. You can sort of approximate that with &amp;quot;do not disturb&amp;quot; mode, but that drains a bit of battery (and traffic in cell data plan) uselessly.</text></item><item><author>krageon</author><text>This person doesn&amp;#x27;t need the core features of a modern smartphone: consistent alarms and reliable connectivity. As such, it is no wonder they love the pinephone: it is essentially a tiny laptop!&lt;p&gt;That said, I don&amp;#x27;t find this very compelling: I am in fact called by people and I don&amp;#x27;t think having to implement a hack around the system&amp;#x27;s sleep state is acceptable (especially given that it may still not be reliable, what with the dependability profile of the connectivity chipset). It may be more accurate to call this a Pine: Not much of a phone to be found.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bestouff</author><text>Did you know that this works on some modern smartphones ? At least my OnePlus 7TPro does wake up from an alarm when it&amp;#x27;s totally powered down.</text></comment>