Are you using the Pinephone as your daily driver?
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  1. Do you use the Pinephone as your daily driver?
  2. If yes: What distribution do you use?
  3. Which desktop environment/interface do you use?
  4. Does the interface offer the basic functionality you need, or is something missing?
  5. Have you been able to add the missing functionality through third-party applications or customizations?
  6. Which customizations did you apply to make the pinephone meet your expectations towards a daily driver?

1. Unless I am missing something here, this is not a realistic question. I got the UBports edition, and for a few months, I followed the progress very closely. Then once a week, once a month, and now every few months. I upgraded last week, and no one can seriously pretend Pinephone can be used as a daily driver. No need to fight. I have debated this for months, and I know some people are convinced they use PP as a daily driver. 



2. Mobian

4. Everything. 

- Battery life is super short, half a day?

- Phone calls are not working correctly. The sound is metallic. Sometimes is so broken you cannot understand, or they do not understand you.

- If calling an automatic service, you can not dial options

- Some automatic services don't work with pinephone

- Modem loses connectivity (random?)

- SMS not always arrive. Both directions.

- Apps are soo slow. Firefox takes forever to launch. Websites need a long time to load. The format is not adapted to a phone size

- Exchange email not working

- No app for Dropbox

- Should I continue?

- Camara: Low picture quality, software not ready.

- VPN not working properly (at least a few months ago)

- Maybe you can use it as a daily driver if you do not need a phone.



Good things about the phone?

It is a project, and it is moving forward. 

Terminal is great!



I am not following very actively. Maybe some of my points are already fixed. 

I am a fan of PP! 


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RE: Are you using the Pinephone as your daily driver? - by daniel - 06-28-2021, 09:25 PM

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