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>>todsac+(OP)
At best, the Pinephone is buggy software on low priced but mediocre hardware. It has always been like this, and it is not going to change. There is nobody willing to spend the millions of dollars it would take to make it otherwise.

Meanwhile, AOSP is fully working, open source Linux-based phone software that runs on lots of modern hardware from a variety of manufacturers. Distributions like GrapheneOS have put huge effort into de-googling, privacy and security. Cameras work. SMS works. Phone calls work. There are lots of apps. I hear there are even a few phones that can do wireless charging!

Why waste any more mindshare on the Pinephone?

>>skymer+bp
On the contrary, AOSP is a largely nonexistent OS thrown over the wall by an evil adtech company so they can claim the proprietary malware-laden version they ship to 99.9% of consumers is open source.

You cannot remove the stench of Google from Android and we should stop trying. We should use a scorched earth policy of avoiding any code that Google has written and assume it is harmful by default.