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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
Try changing the default DNS in AOSP from 8.8.8.8 without doing ill advised, hacky weird nonsense. Have you tried to prevent your AOSP phone from reporting tethering to your carrier in the last ~6 years? The software is licensed GPL, which means you own it outright as a user, to it's core, right? So these types of things should be possible with ease with a little technical proficiency, right?

Android, including AOSP, is not an operating system, because it doesn't enable the user to operate the device. It is a kiosk, because it enables the licensee to use the device, and limits utility to OEM, carrier and Google market requirements and business cases.

>>betwix+sY
Well said. I'll have to remember the kiosk metaphor for Android.