when I bought my #pinephone I read all the stuff about “don’t expect the performance to be great” and thought “my current phone is a five year old budget model, I’m used to the performance not being great“. Just went to look at some CPU benchmarks comparing it with that 5 year old budget phone (Moto G5 Plus) and … well, “not great” is a level of understatement that as an Englishman I can only look at in awe.
cpubenchmark.net/compare/Qualc…
Six months of on and off (lately mostly off, in all honesty) messing around with it trying to turn it into a usable phone and honestly, for £50 I could get something on ebay that’s four times as fast - having really strong “maybe I picked the wrong path” vibes here today
Qualcomm MSM8953 vs ARM Cortex-A53 4 Core 1152 MHz [cpubenchmark.net] by PassMark Software
Comparing Qualcomm MSM8953 vs ARM Cortex-A53 4 Core 1152 MHzwww.cpubenchmark.net
federico
in reply to Daniel Barlow • • •Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to federico • •@federico @Daniel Barlow this. but also: does its performance *feel* slow? I don't have an android phone for comparison, but to me the only complaint for daily tasks would be the time taken by megapixels to convert / save a picture (and I suspect that's not strictly an hardware speed issue), everything else feels quite usable.
Unless of course somebody wants to use android on it, but then I agree that the pinephone is probably not the best hardware choice, since it targets mostly the people who *don't* want to use android.
Daniel Barlow
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •it feels *painfully* slow, to the extent that I'm almost wondering if I got a dud one. Slow as in "takes so long to launch the calls app that I worry the caller will have rung off and gone to voicemail". Slow as in "ssh over wifi feels like connnecting to a US host did in the 1990s internet". Slow as in "tens of seconds to launch a web browser". Slow as in "did it even register that touch?".
I know all about FOSS vs closed ecosystems, which is exactly why I bought it. And I've been running Linux as my primary computing environment since Slackware was The New Thing, so I can accept a certain "lack of polish". But, you know, there's a continuum between "it just works" , and "it just about works", and right now I'm unable even to put this thing on the scale.
Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Daniel Barlow • •Normand C. :postmarketos:
in reply to Daniel Barlow • • •I've been using my Pinephone as my main phone (calls and everything) since last December, and it's been a struggle. It's a good thing I don't get or make many calls, or need to text much. I have high hopes for the Pinephone Pro, but I'm still waiting for distros to improve their support. AFAIK the camera is still not working, let alone the video cam. It's a bit disappointing TBH.
I too have a Moto G5 Plus that I still carry around when I want to take pictures.