Play along - create a PinePhone keyboard

[BronzeBeard]

Someone once told me:

"If you want a better XYZ, buy a better XYZ" - You can't expect the PinePhone to be the end-all-be-all of phones.

The PinePhone wasn't designed for anything other then a Phone, all other uses are "extras", this should be considered when trying to add additional functions.

Decide what you want to use the PinePhone for and move forward, for me, I'm looking at it as a small portable computer first, and a Phone as a secondary use.

As you state, Pinephone was designed to be a phone. This keyboard removes/reduces such functionality without the use of a dongle (blue tooth, wire mic, whatever). So folks generally have a good reason to complain about it. Especially since keeping the functionality of a phone is as simple as a 180 degree hinge. That being said, it probably raises costs too much, at least that's the only good reason I can think of for not designing with 180 degrees in mind.

In the end I'll buy it, because "Better XYZ" doesn't exist. Choices for PKB Phones are pretty slim, and none of them can use mainline Linux functionally.