A host named regret

[Kevin Kofler]

Addressing your complaints one by one, from my experience as a daily PinePhone user:

• Power consumption: Yes, it is high. Keep your phone plugged in overnight until you leave home and always carry a powerbank in case you need it, then you should be fine. Do not worry about your battery breaking with so many charging cycles. Mine has been lasting for years that way, and worst case, it can be replaced (and compatible replacements are also available from third parties, due to electrical compatibility with a specific Samsung battery model). Also do not worry about the phone overheating from the charging. Yes, it gets hot (and not only from charging!), but that does not seem to be a problem in practice.
  
• Performance: This device has an Allwinner A64 SoC, introduced to the market in 2015. PINE64 says in the FAQ that the performance is comparable to a Raspberry Pi 3 (introduced in 2016). What kind of performance did you expect from it? Yes, it is slow. It should not be expected to be fast.
  
• Android apps: Those are not expected to work out of the box indeed. Nowhere was it claimed that they would. If you want to run them, try Waydroid and/or the Android Translation Layer. Both are available in postmarketOS. Apps may or may not work with them, with currently a much higher success probability for Waydroid.