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https://drewdevault.com/2023/06/16/Mobile-linux-retrospective.html
Seems like a good+kind opinion.
2023-06-16 · 3 weeks ago
This was basically the conclusion I came to with the Pinephone. It mostly worked most of the time but was unreliable enought that I stopped using it as a phone and now I use it like a pocketable laptop. A couple other issues I have are that the battery life of the Pinephone is not good enough and you can't keep a network connection alive to deliver non-SMS notifications.
I read this article earlier and it makes me kind of sad. My financial situation is such that I can't possibly justify a Pinephone unless it's going to be my only phone, and since I'm definitely going to be replacing my current phone soon I was really hoping that things had improved enough to make that a viable choice.
This makes me sad too. I was just in the process of researching which mobile linux distro to try due to feeling grossed out by android when I came to this post. Now I am reluctant to even try to play with them.
Flip phone is in my future.
I've had the odd breakage on PostmarketOS but nothing that couldn't be resolved. The team have put a lot of work into testing rigs and recently pulled together a team of manual testers. I can only see things improving. I've daily driven a pinephone and the battery life is a bit of a let down and its a little underpowered but usable. The OnePlus 6T is better in those regards but lacking some functionality due to how the devices are designed but patches for various sensors are waiting to make it into a release. It's all about tradeoffs; none of the mobile Linux offerings are currently perfect but I'm willing to have a few rough edges to not be using iOS or Android.