12-08-2021, 05:55 AM
The application's that Pinephone runs on prevent it from working as a daily driver. Anbox (android wrapper) has problems. On the base model, I DO think that there is enough memory to run a single application in anbox, while I do have to try a few times to start anbox up, eventually it will start and the application running inside of anbox will run smoothly. The problem is that anbox doesn't work well. Currently the keyboard that anbox uses is just a black area on the screen with invisible keys, to be able to type, you need to guess where keys are located in this area, setup like a standard keyboard, but if you need to use special characters, it gets exponentially more difficult to the point of being unusable.
TLDR; anbox keyboard is unusable so it is not possible to run android applications on the pinephone, which makes pinephone unusable as a daily driver. If this is resolved I think it can be a daily driver (within reason)
TLDR; anbox keyboard is unusable so it is not possible to run android applications on the pinephone, which makes pinephone unusable as a daily driver. If this is resolved I think it can be a daily driver (within reason)