Try to use a Nokia N900 today, and check if that's really the bar (I have one in my drawer). I think the bar is higher, and the experience is already better th

Try to use a Nokia N900 today, and check if that's really the bar (I have one in my drawer). I think the bar is higher, and the experience is already better than that on a few mobile devices. If talking about the UI, Plasma mobile is a bit experimental, but gets stuff done with bells and whistles, phosh is a bit barebones but better performant. If you want the Maemo UI, try Nemo mobile. When installing postmarketos on a device, you get quite a few to pick from. If you talk about performance, there are plenty of devices to pick with better performance than the Pinephone (including the Pinephone Pro soon, and the Librem 5). It was meant as a cheap dev platform, and it has largely succeeded at that. Now, telephony support is where it hurts. Supporting modems can get quite complex, so progress is slow. The Pinephone was deliberately engineered as to be doable. Part of the Linux appeal is choice. Choose what you don't need, but we'll likely end up with different needs. One way to bridge the gap is to get Android apps running. We're getting there thanks to waydroid.