On Fri, Oct 02, 2020 at 09:18:21PM +0100, Phil Thane wrote: [snip]
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?
Do you *really* need any/all of those apps? I used to have an Android phone but after a couple of years decided that it was more trouble than it was worth. I have 'downsized' to a feature phone which just makes phone calls and sends/receives SMS (also has the advantages of being very cheap and undesirable and runs for several days on one charge).
I have an old smartphone with no SIM that I use as a SatNav.
Everthing else is on the laptop.