Last Updated on September 30, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org
For us personally the Pinephone is interesting as a “real linux computer which can do anything” as it was advertised by some YouTube video makers. We can do without phone functionality, but not without a real linux computer which can do anything in our pocket or on our body. Are there any Pi’s which can compete with the Pinephone regarding this feature?
This YouTube video of Martijn Braam made us believe that we can use LibrOffice on the Pinephone:
Also Jacob Crume from New Zealand made us believe that the Pinephone is suitable to edit Libreoffice files on it frequently:
https://news.itsfoss.com/pinephone-review/
But here is the story of Peter Gamma and why he never used LibreOffice on his Pinephone:
https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=16614
Then ETA PRIME made us believe that everything is much easer with a Raspberry Pad 5.
Are Pi’s not SBCs which are suitable for hobbyists and widely used by those?
Here is the story of ETA PRIME:
“You Can Easily Build An Awesome Cyber Deck With This!“
Peter Gamma tried to install Raspberry Pi Os on the Pi Pad 5 but was not successful. Are there any happy Pi Pad 5 users and is there a community for it? In the followoing table you can see the naked reality of our user experience:
leepspvideo has a lot of interesting devices on his desk. But he does not have a Raspberry Pi SBC at the size of a Pinephone on there which he uses and demonstrates on a regular basis. This let’s us conclude that such a device does not exist which could be used for demos on a regular basis. Does leepspvideo not show almost everything which can be done with Pi’s? But he never showed a Pi at the size of a Pinephone which can compete with a Pinephone.