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by ttarr 1100 days ago
You raise a good question, unfortunately I asked the same and no one seems to know the answer.

My other question was, why the first iPhone is significantly faster than a recent PinePhone.

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Honestly it depends. The PinePhone Pro (which I've only briefly interacted with and do not own) seems like it works well, if a bit buggy, and with a fairly unoptimised UX derived mostly from desktop linux. Given that there's a handful of supported OSes/images (between android and linux) and just as many unofficial ones, it could be that we have only interacted with less polished SW.

Also FOSS GPU support depending on what device/SOC you have really varies. So weak GPU support can end up handicapping the experience.

Personally I'd like to mess with an android pinephone pro (not the stock "linux with android containers") but I'm not willing to foot the bill to set one up to play with.