@linmob To be honest I don't think the pinephone is a failure. It does what it is supposed to do. Getting hardware to the people who want to develop a mobile linux experience and give tinkerers a chance to try linux on a phone and see what you can do on a truely open OS.

I liked my time with the pinephone as long as I had it. It might been a bit slow, battery was "eh" and software was okay, but it proved that you can run linux on mobile hardware and have a decent experience.

It was also cheap enough where it could feasably be just a secondary device for the time being as software and hardware mature (which they did). Buying a pinephone also supports the people who want to bring us Linux on mobile being Pine itself and all those devs doing the distros (with those special editions).

By actually delivering stuff pine did good work for the industry. Now it will be more or less just a matter of time (and maybe some better hardware + software) until it becomes viable for everyone.

I though kinda wish it was just a tad smaller and not as bulky xD