Good to hear the phone is also ariving in non-german speaking areas. The double tap to wake problem is known and there will be a fix for that.Received my Shiftphone 8 last week. Moved to ShiftOS L directly and what a treat is that. Simple, clean and no annoying popups from all the closed Google services, which you have to accept, without knowing what the service is actually doing with your data.
I really like the clean install.
Fingerprint sensor is working much better than on my former Samsung S20. Do like the ample amount of memory and storage.
This is by far the best phone I had: software-wise, going to Android AOSP has never been easier.
Also:
STT is working fine with the Futo-keyboard
TTS is working fine with Sherpa-onnx tts engine
Remarks:
- FM radio app missing
- display-setting: Tap to Wake: double tap anywhere to wake is implemented as single tap to wake. Double tap to sleep works fine.
- gallery: zooming out doesn't work well in landscape mode
- Shift Camera app: timer (countdown). Wouldn't be 3,5,10s more useful. 8 is a bit short as max.
- don't understand the LiveDisplay setting. You can set grayscale read mode and adjust colors, but what does it have to do with live or time of the day?
- SHIFT HOME is using quite some battery, don't understand why. Also running in the background a lot.
- did connect a second display (USB-C), that works, but it simply mirrors, a setting to show some form of desktop would be useful. Or rotate the second screen. AFAIK the Fairphone 5 has such a setting (same soc)
- did have a recurring crashing settings app -> system -> languages -> Text to Speech output. Think I added another language and set TTS on Dutch before I added a Dutch TTS engine, or the other way around. Had to do a factory reset twice to fix it. Working fine now.
I already sugested the phone to FUTO because I think i complementes their software perfectly hardwarewise.
