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I've had the first gen PinePhone and my view on it is that this is not really a mass market device yet. The PinePhone is just too slow to use. It's frustrating
by emacsen 6y ago
I've had the first gen PinePhone and my view on it is that this is not really a mass market device yet.
The PinePhone is just too slow to use. It's frustratingly unresponsive.
I hoped the LibreM would be fast enough to make the phone usable.
And then after that, there need to be apps that work, but the Free Phone ecosystem is fractured. There's Android derivatives such as the Lineage or /e/ OS, there are pure Linux variants running Phosh, which was developed by Pureism, but also runs on Mobian and postmarketOS, and there is Plasma Mobile, and UBPorts, as well as GerdaOS, which is based on KaiOS, which is a fork of FirefoxOS.
- linmob 6y agoThis sounds you did have a Braveheart edition and have given it away since. I got started with the UBports Edition PinePhone in June and I think it's amazing how much the software has improved since. I have quite a backlog of new apps I need to add to https://linmobapps,frama.io https://linmobapps,frama.io, and overall it has gotten more stable and smoother as more and more is being upstreamed and hardware enablement happens. BTW: I am writing this on my PinePhone.
- Mediterraneo10 6y agoUBports is arguably obsolete, it is based on 2014-era Ubuntu-specific code that even Ubuntu moved away from and is now bitrotting. Mobian has a more promising software stack, but I agree with the OP that the PinePhone is painfully slow, and it doesn't matter which edition you have, because they all have the same underpowered A64 CPU.
- emacsen 6y agoI didn't give it away, it's functional. As for UBPorts, it stoppped updating! It just fails to update. It also insists I'm on a captive portal when I'm on my home wifi.