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Anyone here using a PinePhone as their main phone in 2026? - noahclark - 11-15-2026
I've been daily-driving a PinePhone for about eight months now and I'm at a crossroads. Calls and texts work fine for me, but the battery barely makes it through a workday and a couple of apps I need for my job just aren't usable yet. I'm not a developer, just someone who likes tinkering and wants to keep supporting open hardware. I'm trying to decide whether to stick with it and wait for software improvements, or pick up a secondhand Android phone as a backup and keep the PinePhone for experimenting. My concern is that if I keep waiting, I'll be stuck with hardware that's already getting old. Has anyone else been in this spot? Did a backup phone help, or did it just make you stop using the PinePhone altogether? I'd really appreciate hearing how others here handle the daily-driver tradeoff.