Are PinePhones Becoming More Usable On Each Release . . .

[ryo]

Hello,
I'm just curious if the phonepines are ironing out issues on every release. I read all these little things and curious if those tiny issues ( ex.  the high pitch buzz upon turning on the pinephone or a muffled sound when trying to talk on the phone ). I had the PMOS release but gave the phone to my little nephew, who seems to be getting way more out of it than I was at the time. The kids 11 and now bugging me for one of my thinkpads, bc his father won't let him switch his desktop over to linux. I'm itching for another pinephone, but really want to use it as a functioning phone. I don't use social media or any google apps on my phone.So, is it safe to pull the trigger on the Manjaro edition ?

If you buy a development phone with an OS still in development, and the makers explicitly state that it's not ready yet for daily use, then of course the phone/OS will have issues.
It's like buying a broken TV from someone who clearly states that the TV is broekn, and then you ask the seller when the TV will get fixed.

(Yes, you can buy broken TVs, but the target audience will always be technicians who know how to fix TVs.)

The problem is that not even the basic functions of a phone - calls and SMS - are working something like reliable. And this after more than a half year on the market with the phone.

So for using it as a PHONE the pinephone is absolutely unusable

Of course, but if you buy the phone and the description of the buying page displays:

... so that Manjaro developers can benefit from feedback and code contributions to their project. ... the PinePhone is an Alpha software build. ... device cannot be considered as a consumer-ready product.

Then of course it's expected that the phone will not be ready for general use.
I worked with development hardware before of game consoles before they came out, or even Android 12 years ago.
They were always very buggy at the beginning.
In the case of consoles, commercially released software never worked on them, but that was by design.

The PinePhone description also mentions that "This effectively mean that while core functionality of the PinePhone – such as telephone calls, SMS messages, LTE, GPS, GPU acceleration, etc. – [i]is[/i] operational, it is also an ongoing effort".
I'm not a native English speaker, my native language doesn't even come close to any western language, but I do understand that it means that calls, SMS, etc. can be used, but it's not guaranteed to 100% work.