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I daily drove it for a year. I now use a feature phone (my first phone!) because the PinePhone took water because of a big rain and took some time to recover. I
by jraph 3y ago
I daily drove it for a year. I now use a feature phone (my first phone!) because the PinePhone took water because of a big rain and took some time to recover. In the meantime I got used to my old feature phone again and the voice quality doesn't suck for the person at the other end of the call with this. Moreover, the PinePhone is unreliable as a phone and I think SMS and call reliability is critical.
I also have a PinePhone Pro from when it was affordable. It totally fixes the lags and is fast, making it difficult to use the regular PinePhone again. However, it heats too much and doesn't last long enough on the battery.
The PinePhone in general should not be expected to replace your main phone unless you know otherwise. It is still a prototype Linux mobile phone for testing and developing Linux stuff.
I still use it daily though. Still useful as a GPS device, to display train tickets and QR codes, to watch videos, listen to things and casually browse e.g. in bed (make sure you don't wrap it in your sheets though).
It's not generally practical yet. An Android phone will beat it. It is one of the most practical mobile devices if you care about FOSS and need some smartphone-like features besides calling. Is also occasionally use it as a 4G access point, I also just use my feature phone as a 3G access point through bluetooth for the pinephone when I both want both the calls to work and the smartphone feature or when I'm lazy and don't want to move the sim card but this can be slow.
It is an essential device that may make it possible to have an actual fully working Linux mobile device in a few years.