08-02-2022, 02:37 PM
(08-01-2022, 01:45 PM)justcody Wrote: My questions:
1. Are there only 2 phones being offered, and they are both beta?
1a. Either of the phones fully usable if I bought for myself or my kid?
2. Confirm that the PinePhone hardware is a lot less than my current low end phone A10e(bellow specs) and the Pro would be a close?
2a. How fast would it feel being that the OS is different?
3. See weird verbiage about the battery being sold/package separately on the PinePhone Pro, do I order battery separately, etc?
4. Current or expected future use of apps from Google and or Google play?
4a. Using google maps to get to places and or google voice(for sms)?
I don't really get why you would want to go for a Pinephone if you're happy with your Google phone. Since you are aware that your phone is spying on you and since you don't seem to mind it I'd say: Stick with it. Unless you like tinkering a lot in order to get a phone that sort of works (though unreliably), the Pinephone is not for you. All your questions have to be answered in the negative:
1. They are not even beta, many things simply do not work and many more things are unreliable (depending on the Operating System you use, but there is no OS that's fully funcional)
1a. No.
2. The Pinephone is underpowered and really, really slow. The Pro seems to be twice as fast (and would still probably be much slower than your current phone)
3. No idea. But talking of batteries: Battery life is short with the Pinephone, expect only a few hours standby time and even less when using it.
4. No, not at all.
That said, I would of course highly recommend to get a Pinephone. It's great fun.