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All I want is a phone that is as capable, reliable and fast as the iPhone and which has a port that I can connect to a USB-C Dock with keyboard, mouse and display to get a fully fledged high-speed open Desktop Linux or macOS just as if it was a regular capable notebook PC.

I tried out many of the alternatives (DeX, Pinephone etc.) and they all don’t meet the requirements and have some form of compromise involved.

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How close is the Pinephone though?

The Raspberry Pi is "usable" as a desktop, so I can't imagine the PinePhone being too different?

the pinephone is the best option in terms of its platform design, but it's just so underpowered

Librem 5 is significantly more powerful and also capable to provide convergence. The greatest thing is that you don't just get mobile apps on a big screen but actual desktop apps.

> a port that I can connect to a USB-C Dock with keyboard, mouse and display to get a fully fledged high-speed open Desktop...

My Huawei P20 pro would do this for android. It had a sort of desktop mode, you could attach keyboard and mouse via bluetooth (probably USB as well), the phone screen would become a touchpad.

Not an open platform so much as a skin on android, but still pretty neat.

Samsung almost had it when they supported Linux on DeX, which ran Ubuntu. Unfortunately, they've removed that feature now.

Motorola had something like that, the Xoom phone, sadly failed.

Samsung probably it's the closest thing, but it's still android with a PC shoehorn UI / UX.

None of these options have made the form factor a failure if they were not paired with adequate hardware and software.

You could always carry a stick PC of some kind.

This is not the same as having just one device which can do everything.

The funny thing about that is nowadays a lot of people use both devices at the same time.

Thanks MFA.

Also a few other things I can think of:

* making calls when also using your computer

* browsing while watching/gaming fullscreen

* passive gaming while working

* bringing the phone with you and leaving the laptop/pc for a short period of time

* browsing reddit on the laptop/pc and also on your phone at the same time

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