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I remember seeing news about it, reading the specs, and immediately losing interest.
2GB RAM with 32GB of slow eMMC storage, Wifi 4 (2.4ghz only too), Bluetooth 4.0, not great 5MP camera, and a 720×1440 IPS screen were fine in 2010, but this is a device released in 2020.
The software aspect also turned me off, reading about so many things that were in progress or 'sort of working'.
I don't think that's specifically a Linux phone issue as much as developing for mobile devices. This is kind of thing I've always seen with custom ROMs.
For example, my old Moto G5s Plus is running PixelExperience 11 (now discontinued), and it is mostly working, except for secondary camera and encryption. There's often things that don't quite work in these cases.
For me it was that and the fact that it was more a "developer phone" and not a. "User friendly phone"
Those are almost exactly my phone's specs >.<
At least it was really cheap, which the pinephone wasn't