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Re:PinePhone Pro Announced by jjulius on Friday October 15, 2021 @12:23PM (#28879527)
>There are far too many out-of-the-box bugs and glitches to consider this a usable product.

Their phones are clearly marked as "Beta" on their store[1]. Forgive me for being so blunt, but what did you expect?

[1]https://pine64.com/product-category/pinephone/?v=0446c16e2e6...

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Re:PinePhone Pro Announced by mixmastamyk on Friday October 15, 2021 @06:43PM (#28883996)
Beta traditionally means it works in the common case, with some glitches and bugs around obscure uses that wider testing will identify.

The PP I received was crashy and couldn't even update the OS because a file or library was broken. :-(

I had to start it up ten times, run a terminal with a mobile keyboard in a 4pt font to fix the updater before it crashed at the one minute mark.

I'd call it pre-alpha.

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