Last Updated on May 17, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org
We do not know of Linux phones and SBCs which do not have any issues. But there are Linux phones and SBCs with positive qualities, as for instance:
The PinePhone
- most of the features Pinephone developer Martijn Braam shows seem to work
- for most issues we had with the Pinephone we had support in the Pine64 forum
The main issues for us personally are
- high shipping costs and import taxes to Switzerland
- the Pinephone was criticized for it’s poor battery life and it’s poor software support
- Keep in mind, it took us about three weeks to install LibreOffice on the PinePhone, working everyday a litte bit on it, although we had good support from the Pine64 forum:
https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=16614
- How is it with the next application we want to install on the Pinephone?
Rasperry Pi
- a positive quality is the community Raspberry Pi’s have
- there are tons of insructions for Raspberry Pi’s
- It has 10 years of software developement behind it.
The main issues for us personally
- hardly available
- no Raspberry Pi 5 since several years
- We cannot follow the procedure how Raspberry Pi Inc. deals with customers who use the device for private use.