[meristohm]

Since I no longer play games on my mobile device, I’m comfortable with lower performance (to run Anki, a password manager, Firefox, text editing, play music and podcasts and audiobooks and text-to-speech ebooks—this might be resource-intensive?, record and view photos and videos, send and receive texts and calls). Battery life is also important, though most of my phone use is while it is plugged in.

[mhitza]

The biggest performance issue is going to be the browser. Because for any type of rendering performance hardware acceleration is a must. And Firefox disables that by default on Linux (needs to be manually enabled in about:config).

The second issue, which I saw based on reviews alone was a very slow camera interface.

One surprise with PinePhone optimized distros is Ubuntu Touch (ubports). Not sure what type of magic they are on, but accelerate 1080p video in the browser and fluid mobile interfaces.

Check out the Short Circuit youtube channel for their PinePhone video. Watched it expecting to see just laggy interfaces, but ubports really takes it to the next level.

[testific8]

Speaking from experience with the pinephone, the browser situation is actually pretty good on postmarketOS because they have a custom firefox configuration for mobile: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co6qnlw4hgE

I can also confirm that the camera interface is slow. It takes like 30 seconds to dump a single image and render it into a jpeg. The main camera app is called "Megapixels". I'm not sure, but i've heard there are some paralellism changes coming downstream that may improve performance somewhat now that they have updated to gtk4.