PinePhone versus Sailfish (Sony/Jolla)

[ragreenburg]

@richieeee you will never get anywhere near sfos on sony with pinephone. No matter which os you choose. And I'm talking here about basic functionality like calling, texting or battery life.
I did try to daily drive pinephone for a month but went back to my Sony XA2 with sfos. Pinephone gave me too much stress and disappointment.

For me pinephone is just a hobby project. It's not usable device at the moment. And it seems creating mobile, phone oriented and usable OS takes much more time than anybody anticipated.
Also hardware, mainly modem is weak and highly unoptimized. At least in places where cell signal is not strong enough.
Which is the case where I live.

I wouldn't say never. In reality a bunch of these devs have had their hands on the PinePhone for at most 1.5 years which isn't long enough to make an entirely functional mobile OS made by volunteers. That being said, comparing OS's with what they were back in Feb 2020 you can see the drastic difference. I also think that once Purism finishes up with their mobile OS then Mobian and PMOS will also be nearly as good as PureOS because they all use Phosh. Don't get me wrong, the PinePhone is currently a bit of a pain and certain OS's have made virtually zero progress in the past 9 months or so (I'm looking at you, UBPorts) but others have made large jumps in usability and most of them are based off of PureOS which also isn't finish yet.