Thierry de Coulon via tde-users wrote:
I own both and I can tell you you can't compare.
The Fairphone works (with Android). The Pinephone does not "work", it's a toy. Does not keep a charge, no OS works correctly, many can't even... phone. The Pinephone seems mostly to want to be a hardware that let people develop an OS, but that OS - at least the last time I tried - is not yet even at beta level.
And the main issue is the eco system. Without eco system you do not have a market and without a market you are predestined to tail. Who is responsible for this .... well not only the government or the company that bribes through lobbying - a big responsibility lays on the developers and consumers too, but we can not blame the consumers that much. A consumer wants things that work and the linux developers communities in the past years are not quite able to deliver on this expectations for various reasons, so at the end I am also planning to move to Fairphone at the end.