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Ah, you are right about that. But I do wish that freedom was the main goal for people, because that's the point of the Free Software movement. Switching to GNU/Linux is inconvenient too and there might be things that a person won't be able to do on it. Obviously an average person won't be able to handle a PinePhone, so I don't have hope they will try (and they probably shouldn't), but an average GNU/Linux user might. It all depends on how much a person values freedom. But at the same time I understand that getting freedom is usually a gradual journey, which might take a lot of time.
I also don't answer many phone calls, so it's possible I was just lucky or haven't noticed.
If you are talking about the original PinePhone, then yes, it's a 5 megapixel camera and it will always be terrible. PinePhone Pro's camera is much better, though. There seems to be a lot of very technical stuff that goes into making pictures look good. For example stuff like auto-exposure and color correction. Here is a quote from the developer of the Megapixels camera app from the blog post that I linked:
I have a separate camera for taking photos, but I understand the need to have one in a phone that you can take with you everywhere.
Yeah, push notifications probably won't be solved for a while. There is some hope, though:
https://github.com/the-modem-distro/pinephone_modem_sdk/releases/tag/0.7.4