PinePhone: trying out a Linux-based smartphone

OK, I have mean more "pretend" in the meaning "claim" which was my feeling of the word and is even one meaning according to my Czech to English dictionary when I check it now. I did not want to mark her directly as a liar but I feel her claim as overrated and emotional and underrating Purism effort too much. But I am not native speaker, so I speak Czenglish it is possible that each of us understand worlds meaning and intonation different. .... But from the initial comment only, there is no link to article and can be easily misinterpreted that she comments actual state, so I feel the comment as at least little unfair. But she probably feels that her experience was probably so strong that the comment is appropriate.

And yes, when I rested the movement of menus etc. again, then it could be probably better accelerated and more smooth etc. But it is far under my level of feeling unconformable. But can be problem for somebody. There are some surprises on the road, i.e. you go through smooth mobile adaptive setup of the WiFi and at the moment when I have selected Enterprise WPA you find that you need external monitor or change display zoom, rotate etc to get forward because that dialog does not fit on the device screen. It was situation three months ago when I have setup my EDUROAM account. May it be it is solved already. When you run VLC and move it on the external screen the widow decoration is (was, I have not checked today) only black rectangle, but could be drag and resized by mouse. So yes, there is long way to go. But I would not call software as completely buggy. I would say that it is in evolution. I have stuck GUI and or whole device during some experiments with different USB-C devices, monitors end and have to reset it, may it be five times. No data lost. But during normal use I have not experienced hard stuck of the system, it was during real experiments. I have it connected to ETHERNET in the dock over whole day and tinkered with it and again no problems. Only one incominig call silent over many attempts, and it was in November... Not counting actual unfinished suspend state. There could be overheat stuck in my initial tests three months ago. But I have not noticed any such misbehavior from December... So I would declare core hardware, CPU, charging, kernel and graphics engine support as stable now... and quite usable even for non standard setups, i.e. external monitor, keyboard, mouse, virtual mouse on display and I test Telegram not over its native client but over libpurple plugin and even it works. It has some lag (5, 10 sec) at each initial synchronization when mobile or WiFi connection becomes available but then it works for whole days reliably. Sometimes latest message after reconnect is duplicated... But that is probably common problem on libpurple Telegram plugin side. I like virtual keyboard, terminal, even calls (for both mobile and VoIP) and chatty as the reasonably ergonomics applications. Touch copy paste between applications has not ideal ergonomic yet. But you can use virtual keyboard menu key and get to the function usually. Solution is in the discussion/progress. If battery life can be prolonged by power management I can imagine to use it as my main phone in the town. In the countryside, it is too expensive to scratch it and battery is and will probably be a problem. I hope that GPS will be resolved at the end, so it is platform to test and develop some, ideally, offline navigation applications in car, for sure much behind OsmAnd initially... But management over SSH, aptitude, usability as full Linux desktop and Debian are plus not found on the mass produced mobiles...