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Bought a pine phone because it's cool.
It is not daily driver worthy at all
out of curiosity. What were the problems you ended up experiencing? Been tempted to get one being a linux user myself.
Wifi keeps waking up the phone, draining the battery, then craps out when you want to use it. The camera has like 5fps with 1998 flip phone quality. Forget about multi tasking. It connects to the cell network so calling and texting should work. Want to use an app for something? Too bad.
That’s my experience from two years ago, I had the distro hopping sd card and tried all os versions at the time. It’s just not there yet.
The only use I see is dropping it somewhere and then using it as a jump host over lte, but I haven’t tested that.
A lot has changed in 2 years. But the camera on the original PinePhone will always be bad, since it's a 5 megapixel camera. For that reason nobody has even bothered to implement video recording, but there are scripts, which will let you do that.