[bigyabai]

I dunno, it's not unexpected. Smartphone hardware has been cheaper, more proliferate and faster than Raspberry Pis for a while. The Pi Foundation finds a market by supporting Linux, documenting GPIO and Arduino/hat ecosystems, and advocating for a hackier, server-like approach with the cheap hardware. Game consoles, smartphones and consumer laptops are often powerful, but priced taking the customer's service revenue into account.

My Raspberry Pi is definitely outclassed by a few of my old phones and laptops. But it's also super pleasant to host services on, so it's my go-to SBC.

[LtWorf]

Phones don't have any I/O and android is a pain in the ass to experiment with. Plus by default it will do things like powersave.

[NoGravitas]

If I could install PostmarketOS (and a close-to-mainline kernel?) on one of my old smartphones, I'd rather use that for my cyberdeck project than a Pi. I'm not prepared to do a pmos bring-up on an unsupported phone, though.

[LtWorf]

Good luck with that, I think the chance that your phone is supported and works are very slim unless you bought it on purpose for that.