05-21-2023, 02:46 PM
Great topic.
How I see this:
Pinephone is working decent enough to be used as daily driver but it is so slow that it is actually more "dummy phone" than smartphone. You can technically do all sort of complicated things with it but do you want to?
Pinephone Pro is still a work in progress, but assuming it can be made to work as a phone it would be decent enough to use as a smartphone. Battery life would be biggest challenge and afaik it is nearly impossible to improve enough so it can be used as smartphone when on the road.
Considering that a tremendous amount of work has been done on both models I wouldn't want to see any more brand new faster and shinier devices except in a completely exceptional situation.
For me perfect next Pinephone would be Pinephone Pro (if community can make it work as a phone) with a giant battery - and seriously giant something like 20 000mah.
Then we have decent device with decent battery life and it can seriously compete with ios and android in daily use.
And when more people can daily drive it because the software is mature enough and battery life is long enough we might get a genuinely bigger crowd interested - and some of them will contribute to community.
And after that we can jump to next gen. Pinephone but personally I don't want to rush there, because then we would have to wait two years again for the phone to be "almost good".
How I see this:
Pinephone is working decent enough to be used as daily driver but it is so slow that it is actually more "dummy phone" than smartphone. You can technically do all sort of complicated things with it but do you want to?
Pinephone Pro is still a work in progress, but assuming it can be made to work as a phone it would be decent enough to use as a smartphone. Battery life would be biggest challenge and afaik it is nearly impossible to improve enough so it can be used as smartphone when on the road.
Considering that a tremendous amount of work has been done on both models I wouldn't want to see any more brand new faster and shinier devices except in a completely exceptional situation.
For me perfect next Pinephone would be Pinephone Pro (if community can make it work as a phone) with a giant battery - and seriously giant something like 20 000mah.
Then we have decent device with decent battery life and it can seriously compete with ios and android in daily use.
And when more people can daily drive it because the software is mature enough and battery life is long enough we might get a genuinely bigger crowd interested - and some of them will contribute to community.
And after that we can jump to next gen. Pinephone but personally I don't want to rush there, because then we would have to wait two years again for the phone to be "almost good".
