Can the PinePhone replace your Android or iOS device?
It&#x27;s completely nobbled! This project had the potential to be really great but it&#x27;s blown before it&#x27;s gotten off the ground.  For starters, its specs are worse than the phone I owned 5 or 6 years or more ago.<p>- Pathetically inadequate CPU<p>- Bluetooth 4 (dark ages Bluetooth)<p>- Tiny 2GB RAM (OK for 1980s-type games I suppose)<p>- Only 16GB eMMC†<p>- Only 802.11 b&#x2F;g&#x2F;n (now as ancient as hieroglyphics)<p>- Doesn&#x27;t seem to have FM radio (why the hell not?)<p>- Screen too small<p>- Screen too Lo-res<p>- Super Lo-res cameras<p>- Mono speaker it seems.<p>It may be cheap but it&#x27;s no good if you can&#x27;t use it (except perhaps as a mantelpiece ornament). Why are all these type of projects always so damn inadequate&#x2F;behind the times (I&#x27;ve yet to find an exception)?<p>We urgently need a REAL Google&#x2F;Android replacement and we&#x27;ve ended up with an old fashioned toy!  What&#x27;s wrong with these designers, have they been in a time warp for a decade or more?<p>It reminds me of USB 1—stillborn and totally useless, Microsoft running 8x3 filenames a decade longer than it ought, and Bill&#x27;s famous 640k disaster&#x2F;fiasco (even at the time I nearly fell over with laughter at his announcement).<p>It seems some people never learn.<p>P.S.:  At least it has one good point—a headphone jack.  That isn&#x27;t retro, it&#x27;s just sensible. (But I wonder if that was by design or accident.)<p>__<p><i>† As it is, my current phone uses 256GB&#x2F;SD plus 64GB internal and I&#x27;m desperately running out of space!</i>