--- title: PinePhone review | daily.dev description: A hands-on review of the PinePhone developer edition running postmarketOS. The hardware is promising — USB-C, headphone jack, open-source Lima GPU driver, LTE... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/pinephone-review-jtg8vqxew twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: PinePhone review | daily.dev og:description: A hands-on review of the PinePhone developer edition running postmarketOS. The hardware is promising — USB-C, headphone jack, open-source Lima GPU driver, LTE... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/pinephone-review-jtg8vqxew og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/JTG8vqxeW.png og:image:alt: PinePhone review og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # PinePhone review **[Drew DeVault](https://daily.dev/sources/drewdevault)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A hands-on review of the PinePhone developer edition running postmarketOS. The hardware is promising — USB-C, headphone jack, open-source Lima GPU driver, LTE via Ofono, WiFi — all working without binary blobs. However, software support is extremely early: phone calls lack audio, MMS is unconfirmed, and most user-facing apps don't exist yet. The author is actively building mobile Wayland compositor components (based on Sway) including an app drawer called 'casa', a dialer, SMS daemon, lock screen, and on-screen keyboard. The phone is recommended only for developers willing to contribute, but the author is enthusiastic that the right free software community members are already working on it, and the $150 price point makes it accessible. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [I tried a phone that runs actual Linux, and Android app support made it almost usable](https://daily.dev/posts/i-tried-a-phone-that-runs-actual-linux-and-android-app-support-made-it-almost-usable-u2r8cunpe) · XDA Developers · 2 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#linux](https://daily.dev/tags/linux) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/pinephone-review-jtg8vqxew) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"PinePhone review","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/pinephone-review-jtg8vqxew","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/pinephone-review-jtg8vqxew"},"datePublished":"2026-03-31T12:28:43.712Z","dateModified":"2026-03-31T12:45:26.193Z","description":"A hands-on review of the PinePhone developer edition running postmarketOS. The hardware is promising — USB-C, headphone jack, open-source Lima GPU driver, LTE...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--0_ODbtD2--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2008","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--0_ODbtD2--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2008","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Drew DeVault","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Drew DeVault","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--BGhGBu0U--/f_auto,q_auto/v1774960025/logos/drewdevault?_a=BAMAMiWQ0","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/drewdevault"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/pinephone-review-jtg8vqxew","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"linux","timeRequired":"PT6M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Drew DeVault","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/drewdevault"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"PinePhone review"}]} ```