I'm really looking forward to the PinePhone keyboard. Except for web-browsing, I use Emacs for almost everything else, so just give me a way to conveniently use Emacs on the PinePhone like I used to on the Nokia N900 and I can almost excuse all the PinePhone’s other flaws (e.g. a weak processor resembling a low-end Android phone from 2014, and a hard limit of 3GB of RAM on that processor).
However, though the hardware seems to be progressing well, I worry about the software side, both developing for the phone and using the phone enough to produce good bug reports. Is it just me, or is there much less community activity around the PinePhone than there was around the Nokia N900?
Regarding community activity: I think there‘s a lot going on, I had no problem to write my weekly update for my blog (https://linmob.net) for 37 times now and I have trouble testing and adding all the software projects to http://appl.ist).
Like everything these days, the active community seems to be more scattered, while PINE64 has a forum, this not really the central place Maemo.org seemed to be (I could not afford a N900 at the time). There are multiple subreddits, Twitter, the fediverse, chat rooms (and all the distributions have their own channels) – all this makes it hard to make sure to not miss out.
However, though the hardware seems to be progressing well, I worry about the software side, both developing for the phone and using the phone enough to produce good bug reports. Is it just me, or is there much less community activity around the PinePhone than there was around the Nokia N900?