Hello Lugs,
Pinebook Pro still going well. Issues so far:
Changed OS to Manjaro with KDE (default on newer releases).
Built-in speakers are tiny, therefore tinny. They were stupidly quite too until I discovered you can use KDE settings to crank up volume. Currently run them at 150%. Earphones OK at 100%. Then app vol sliders work OK.
Zoom app not available and Zoom web won't work on FF. Does work on Chromium but is a bit flaky.
KDE themes don't always work, fail during install. Maybe some rely on dependancies not ported to Arm64.
Struggling to find my ideal KDE theme. AFAIK a light, transparent panel also means a transparent app launcher which is unreadable when it pops over a window with text in. Opaque panels look a bit clunky and I don't like dark themes. Will carry on looking.
Sleep mode works but battery consumption whilst asleep is too high. I shut down if I expect to leave it more than an hour or two.
Still think it was a good buy.
I've been following development of PinePhone too. As with Pineboook the prototyping is being done openly with early adopter versions for software devs released a while ago. There are about 6 OS projects being ported but only one is Android (AOSP) based. The others are 'pure' Linux eg UBports. It's tempting but so much these days relies on mobile apps and there aren't going to be many of them for Linux OSs. Any thoughts anyone?