Are you using the Pinephone as your daily driver?

[Zebulon Walton]

Having used the Pinephone as my regular phone for a few days now I actually find the most difficult aspect of it is just the size of the thing, it's difficult to carry around. It otherwise works fine for making and receiving calls. I've never had any kind of smartphone before, just flip phones which are very compact and hardly noticeable when clipped to a belt. I found a holster that the Pinephone fits but of course it's bulky and tends to get in the way of things like reaching for my wallet.

Also one time the Pinephone managed to turn itself on due to being jostled around inside the holster. I'm running Mobian with full disk encryption and the phone apparently spent hours at the unlock screen and got very hot, actually uncomfortable to touch, and battery nearly discharged. Apparently there is not much in the way of power management at that stage of booting up. (Normally the phone gets warm in regular use but nothing like that.) Fortunately there appears to be no damage. So far positioning the phone so its buttons are facing up in the holster have prevented this from happening again but I still check it periodically, may have to leave the battery out if this becomes a repeat problem.

So, how are others dealing with the logistics carrying the Pinephone around with them on a daily basis?