Yeah, these videos are shockingly low effort. This was basically a video of Anthony trying out a multi-boot SD card image and playing with about half of the distros for 5 minutes each because the distro that shipped on the phone completely failed to install itself. I noticed he gave the Pinephone a pass on a lot of the frustrations he had with Phosh in the first video. The DIP switches give you “more control” but you’re never going to whip out your tweezers in public and pop the back off of the phone for a second to toggle any of them.
After several months, I still find the Pinephone incredibly awkward to use. It’s slow. Really slow. You’re going to miss a call unless you have the phone sitting in front of you and you’re expecting the call. Watching videos is still impossible on most websites. Every app takes multiple seconds just to draw something over the desktop. Yeah the camera works, but it’s so slow and low quality that I’ve used it maybe twice.
If Anthony used either phone for a day he would come across these issues, but these videos seem to be shot in around an hour with no background research done on what’s being reviewed.