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I think I remember you mentioning this on another Pinephone thread!
Totally agree as a Pinephone owner. It's not daily driver yet, but it's slowly getting there. It's also not something that I think will ever scale to "daily driver" for some of these tasks, like Zoom, multitasking, etc. just because the hardware is very much lower end (most models only have 2GB RAM, I heard there's some speed issues on the 3GB RAM model, which I have, as well). Just being realistic, but the older adage of getting a performance gain on older hardware with Linux is really starting to erode due to how much power's needed to run things on the modern web, and all these new electron apps which are browsers in and of themselves. It's not uncommon on my Pinephone to slow to a halt with two tabs in Firefox, or one tab on a very javascript heavy site or app. Some of this can be optimized in software of course, but at a certain point the hardware restrictions will ultimately hold you back.
It's very much going to continue to be a development platform though, and a good target device for OS development since it's sold so cheaply. Hopefully the work done for optimizations on this device will carry over to the Librem 5 and other devices as postmarketOS has been doing.
I would be happy to spend twice that on a Linux phone with better hardware that will last a long time. Hopefully we get a new version of this
Librem 5 as @redemption said if you want something new, there's also third party support in postmarketOS for a few devices as well if you want to recycle something!
I'm down. I don't get calls for anything but spam, I just need my small dopamine rectangle
Small dopamine rectangle that you can plug in to a USB C monitor to turn into a large dopamine rectangle
Pixels are great phones, only thing I wish it still had was a headphone jack and that Google didn't try to force you to use cloud storage by not having a microSD slot. Graphene, Calyx, or LineageOS are all good choices for de-googling the phone too!
It probably will, but it will not be seamless, and lots of apps will have issues (due to services being different, missing libraries etc). You can use anbox on Linux already which makes a lot of stuff work so pinephone may be able to use a fork of it adapted for actual phone use, but working with actual phone hardware for some apps will be a challenge.
Yep, you need anbox to run any android apps on Linux, with varying states of usability/working/etc.
