PinePhone as Linux PDA?
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I can‘t comment on every aspect of this (especially since I haven‘t been using the keyboard accessory much, as the resulting micro-laptop is just too wide screen for my liking):

1) I don’t think SoftMaker make an ARM (Aarch64) build available. Therefore you won’t be a able to run this easily. (You could attempt running it with box64 and binary translation, but I doubt it‘s going to be a good experience.)

2) It‘s packaged, but you are going to have to change the scaling - at stock scaling Thunderbird definitely won’t fit the screen.

3) It‘s packaged, and should run at a small enough text size. You can also try some graphical feed readers: https://linuxphoneapps.org/categories/feed-reader/

I‘ll leave the other ones to people that are more familiar with the keyboard.
Just one thing: The great thing with the PinePhone imho is, that you can try many distributions and graphical shells and find the one that fits you best. Your tiny laptop/PDA idea may indicate that AVMultiPhone (https://archivista.ch/cms/en/news/avmultiphone-v2/) is something you might enjoy.
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PinePhone as Linux PDA? - by jakfish - 08-30-2022, 11:37 AM
RE: PinePhone as Linux PDA? - by linmob - 08-30-2022, 02:35 PM
RE: PinePhone as Linux PDA? - by jakfish - 08-30-2022, 02:51 PM
RE: PinePhone as Linux PDA? - by wibble - 08-31-2022, 12:24 PM
RE: PinePhone as Linux PDA? - by jakfish - 08-31-2022, 01:39 PM

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