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I ordered my Pinephone this month and patiently awaiting it. Despite what may currently be lacking, it's in a good enough place to be a daily driver for myself.

I ordered my Pinephone this month and patiently awaiting it. Despite what may currently be lacking, it's in a good enough place to be a daily driver for myself. My Blackberry Q10 served me well for years but the battery is starting to go and the OS + apps are no longer supported. I can actually say I've skipped Android/iOS entirely.

SuperPaintMan 6y ago
If you don't mind hacking around and a bit of Jank, you can get the Lineage GSI working on the UniHertz Titan. Still Android, but you keep the HW Kepboard and the batterylife and build on it is insane. Not nearly as clean as stock or the Key2, but much more freedom respecting.
fakedang 6y ago
Fellow Q10 fan here. Only switched to Android for my usual apps because the BB app store is crappy. Else it could run most Android apps, simply by installing the apks.
- CosmicShadow 6y ago
  I miss my Passport!
etaioinshrdlu 6y ago
You're saying the PinePhone is a daily driver before you've tried it? I just got mine and it is significantly buggier, crashier, and slower than expected. The USB C port is also of low quality. It is overall worse quality than expected.
- bsharitt 6y ago
  Yeah, I was excited to try to daily drive a Pinephone expecting it to be "a bit buggier" that a regular phone, but it's still a long way to go once I got it.
- slothtrop 6y ago
  Based on other reported experiences which may be inconsistent.
djeiasbsbo 6y ago
I have had the PinePhone devkit for a long time now and while I am very invested in the project and like to see this optimism, I can tell you that it's definitely not ready to be a daily driver yet. It's coming along fine though and in a few years that might be true! For now, a great device for tinkering and contributing back.
aitchnyu 6y ago
The brick wall I noticed was MS Outlook and Teams on Android didnt let me copy paste text to any non-MS app, other apps just got a plaintext error message. To open any link, I had to install Edge for Android. The phone also has policies enforced by MS Intune. How will a new player break into this market?
- roytries 6y ago
  This is on a phone managed by your employer I assume? Intune protects the data in your employee accounts from leaking outside of those apps. In a regular Outlook without Intune installed you can copy/paste just fine. Source: I've used the Outlook app before my phone was enrolled with my company so I noticed the differences :).

SuperPaintMan 6y ago

If you don't mind hacking around and a bit of Jank, you can get the Lineage GSI working on the UniHertz Titan. Still Android, but you keep the HW Kepboard and the batterylife and build on it is insane. Not nearly as clean as stock or the Key2, but much more freedom respecting.

fakedang 6y ago

Fellow Q10 fan here. Only switched to Android for my usual apps because the BB app store is crappy. Else it could run most Android apps, simply by installing the apks.

CosmicShadow 6y ago
I miss my Passport!

etaioinshrdlu 6y ago

You're saying the PinePhone is a daily driver before you've tried it? I just got mine and it is significantly buggier, crashier, and slower than expected. The USB C port is also of low quality. It is overall worse quality than expected.

bsharitt 6y ago
Yeah, I was excited to try to daily drive a Pinephone expecting it to be "a bit buggier" that a regular phone, but it's still a long way to go once I got it.
slothtrop 6y ago
Based on other reported experiences which may be inconsistent.

djeiasbsbo 6y ago

I have had the PinePhone devkit for a long time now and while I am very invested in the project and like to see this optimism, I can tell you that it's definitely not ready to be a daily driver yet. It's coming along fine though and in a few years that might be true! For now, a great device for tinkering and contributing back.

aitchnyu 6y ago

The brick wall I noticed was MS Outlook and Teams on Android didnt let me copy paste text to any non-MS app, other apps just got a plaintext error message. To open any link, I had to install Edge for Android. The phone also has policies enforced by MS Intune. How will a new player break into this market?

roytries 6y ago
This is on a phone managed by your employer I assume? Intune protects the data in your employee accounts from leaking outside of those apps. In a regular Outlook without Intune installed you can copy/paste just fine. Source: I've used the Outlook app before my phone was enrolled with my company so I noticed the differences :).