Something others (who have the option) may want to try: Use your old phone as a wifi tablet after wiping all cellular settings. This works well for me as I can check/rely on wifi for any Android apps I could not do without. I plan to keep using Pinephone as a daily driver.
I am personally very happy/satisfied with my Pinephone and find it very usable for my expectations/uses. I appreciate all the hard work from the devs who donate their personal time/work/problem solving skills to bring us something usable (and for me Mobian is very usable). I have had a lot of fun experimenting so far and tbh never held super high expectations for a $150 community driven phone, especially first months into Community Edition releases. This is a $150 hardware device and Pine64 merely supplies the hardware part. Most Pinephone OS dev teams are not that large.
I'm using a Pinephone UT Community Edition as my daily driver (running Mobian mostly atm, Ubuntu Touch, Arch, Manjaro). For me Mobian is most usable/stable enough and I have enjoyed watching and experiencing the progress on each. Never expected to be able to use/run Inkscape on a Linux phone for $150.
To add: I haven't missed a single text message on Mobian <3. I haven't missed a call (that I am aware of, no one has said anything). In fact I have to wonder if my telemarketer calls have somehow become *more* reliable :-P. Call issues may also relate to carrier (2g, 3g, 4g, LTE voice..) and service/compatability for some users.
Donating money is one way to help and show devs interest/appreciation for their project. I think the best thing we can do as things stand now is try to get more active in development process, in any way we are able. Trying to help report bugs is one way I think the community can pull together stronger. Gather information on bugs as we experience them, try to find a way to reproduce them (when possible).
I am personally very happy/satisfied with my Pinephone and find it very usable for my expectations/uses. I appreciate all the hard work from the devs who donate their personal time/work/problem solving skills to bring us something usable (and for me Mobian is very usable). I have had a lot of fun experimenting so far and tbh never held super high expectations for a $150 community driven phone, especially first months into Community Edition releases. This is a $150 hardware device and Pine64 merely supplies the hardware part. Most Pinephone OS dev teams are not that large.
I'm using a Pinephone UT Community Edition as my daily driver (running Mobian mostly atm, Ubuntu Touch, Arch, Manjaro). For me Mobian is most usable/stable enough and I have enjoyed watching and experiencing the progress on each. Never expected to be able to use/run Inkscape on a Linux phone for $150.
To add: I haven't missed a single text message on Mobian <3. I haven't missed a call (that I am aware of, no one has said anything). In fact I have to wonder if my telemarketer calls have somehow become *more* reliable :-P. Call issues may also relate to carrier (2g, 3g, 4g, LTE voice..) and service/compatability for some users.
Donating money is one way to help and show devs interest/appreciation for their project. I think the best thing we can do as things stand now is try to get more active in development process, in any way we are able. Trying to help report bugs is one way I think the community can pull together stronger. Gather information on bugs as we experience them, try to find a way to reproduce them (when possible).
- RTP
"In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few." -Shunryu Suzuki
[ Pinephone Original | Pinetab v1 / v2 Enjoyer ]
Linux Device Privacy / Security Playlist
"In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few." -Shunryu Suzuki
[ Pinephone Original | Pinetab v1 / v2 Enjoyer ]
Linux Device Privacy / Security Playlist
