Yeah as soon as I got my pinephone and the lag on the lock screen happened I had a sinking feeling it wasn't going to be that great.
Also, I tinker with many of my devices but it would be perfectly valid if the pinephone I purchased I wanted to just work out of the box, at least to the extent where the first screen doesn't lag on keyboard input.
That's a huge sign of immaturity at least in the QA process (if one even exists).j
Mind you, I really want things like Pinephone to work and be a viable alternative to the general ad/spyware infested crap on the market.
The Pinephone home and order pages had a warning in figurative blinking neon signs clearly stating it's not for consumers and squarely targeted at developers interested in making the software better.
my budget for a phone is about $150. i have been thinking about getting a pinephone (with a keyboard) but that would have been twice my budget, and after i saw a friend with that having trouble getting the keyboard working, i passed on it. before i had a fairphone 3, which i had received as a gift, but its performance was worse than the $150 phone i had before that. now however i got a very good deal (slightly over my budget) on a refurbished 3 year old oneplus nord that new would have cost $400. and boy, i have never had a phone that was that good. not only is it much faster, the battery lasts longer too.
i can now understand why people like to spend money on a high end phone. i still won't spend that much but thanks to refurbishing services i don't need to.
i really appreciate what fairphone and pinephone are doing. we need these alternative phones. i had my share of them, firefox phone, geeksphone. a sailfish based phone from india, a samsung phone running tizen. i even got a second hand openmoko very cheap because the owner was unsatisfied with it. and i can really see the evolution.
the problem is that these phones are a few years behind the curve and that the apps are written for high end phones. (the fairphone was really struggling to run wechat)
so actually, in theory you should be right. there should be software that is snapping fast even on these phones. i mean even the openmoko had usable apps. but in practice, sadly the hardware is simply a limitation.
perhaps in a few years phones will reach the same state that desktop and laptop computers have now. they can only speed up by adding more cores, and individual applications can't really go any faster, so a 7 year old computer still performs fine, even for my kids as a gaming device.
That's basically what I did: https://announce.asheesh.org/2022/09/i-switched-to-iphone-fo...
I didn't see issues running wechat on a Pixel 3a, which is slightly older than the Fairphone 3. I replaced my 3a with a 6a, but not for any performance-related reasons.
Maybe there's something weird about the Fairphone 3?
I am reading HN on it right now, still going strong!
Admittedly I have never used it as my first phone. The mechanics and probably the battery (still the first one) would not have lasted.
Yes it uses the GTK toolkit but that has nothing to do withe GNOME-Shell or its performance problems.
I corrected the Wikipedia article.
It's because you're not their employer, so they can do (or not do) whatever they want.