I was going through Pine64’s page again after I found the latest KDE announcement. With that said, I seem to see a lot of issues with firmware on the Pine, whilst the Librem is just plain out of budget for me. Was interested in how many people here run a Linux mobile as a daily driver, and how has your experience been?

I’m considering purchasing the Pine but I’d like a better screen, more RAM and a better CPU. Don’t know if I should wait for a new model to be released (are they even planning to do that? Is the company active?). I will only really use it to browse the Web, and might even look to desolder a couple of parts that I know I won’t use.

Thanks.

Edit: I am willing to watch content and use banking apps from the browser. Do you think it’ll be fit for me?

Edit 2: overall, I am much saddened about the state of affairs regarding private computing on the go. I desperately hope that Linux on mobile takes off, even though its incubation looks disheartening at the moment. Thank you everyone for your comments.

  • helenslunch
    3·
    7 months ago

    Pixels are just way too expensive

    LOL what? The A series are some of the cheapest modern phones you can buy, and an incredible value…

    • Pantherina@feddit.de
      31·
      7 months ago

      Yup then that is pretty messed up. I was used to phones not costing over 200€, maybe 300

      • helenslunch
        3·
        7 months ago

        The only phones that cost that much are either several years old (in which case you can include used Pixels) or are riddled with bloatware and spyware and the absolute cheapest of materials that won’t last long enough to make buying it even make any financial sense.

        • MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.worldOP
          3·
          7 months ago

          And the commenter is lamenting how greedy companies are getting and customers agreeing to get themselves bent for these corporations. Apple started the pricing model and Samsung followed suit, and now everyone just takes it as default pricing. This is a pathetic state of affairs

          • helenslunch
            1·
            7 months ago

            and now everyone just takes it as default pricing.

            Who does that? There are several great phones you can buy for <$400. The phones of yore were trash.

        • Pantherina@feddit.de
          1·
          7 months ago

          Nokia 7plus back then. Great hardware, nice materials. Still working great but nearly no software updates. An indian guy develops LineageOS for Nokia phones though