<story><title>PinePhone – Open Source Smart Phone Supported by Major Linux Phone Projects</title><url>https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>katmannthree</author><text>The pinephone is great, in fact I&amp;#x27;m typing this comment from mine.&lt;p&gt;That said, fair warning to anyone thinking about getting one: it&amp;#x27;s slow, buggy, and flat out unreliable if you need to be able to receive &amp;#x2F; answer calls and texts for anything important (e.g. work).&lt;p&gt;Once they get the software worked out over the next few years though, it&amp;#x27;ll be the best thing out there. No ads, no bullshit, just a phone with a mainline linux distribution.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dogma1138</author><text>I think the main thing that PinePhone has going for them is the price $150-200 for what essentially is a hobbyist device at this point is more than reasonable.&lt;p&gt;This is in stark contrast to the Purism phones which offer about the same hardware (slightly better CPU but worse GPU) at flagship prices.&lt;p&gt;This is somewhat also proof that the prices that Purism charges aren’t due to lack of economy of scale you can make these devices on the cheap, the hardware is available.&lt;p&gt;I have a similar complaint about their laptops they charge a hefty premium for what is essentially a bog standard OEM laptop from China which you can get for almost half the price in many cases including from other direct to customer vendors.</text></comment>
<story><title>PinePhone – Open Source Smart Phone Supported by Major Linux Phone Projects</title><url>https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>katmannthree</author><text>The pinephone is great, in fact I&amp;#x27;m typing this comment from mine.&lt;p&gt;That said, fair warning to anyone thinking about getting one: it&amp;#x27;s slow, buggy, and flat out unreliable if you need to be able to receive &amp;#x2F; answer calls and texts for anything important (e.g. work).&lt;p&gt;Once they get the software worked out over the next few years though, it&amp;#x27;ll be the best thing out there. No ads, no bullshit, just a phone with a mainline linux distribution.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>theodric</author><text>You have a strange definition of &amp;quot;great.&amp;quot; If any other phone exhibited those characteristics, I would write it off as garbage, not excuse its faults with a promise that they&amp;#x27;ll be fixed Real Soon Now™</text></comment>