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Mostly agreed. Although I would say G1 was (relatively to its time) more advanced and stable than mobile Linux phones. It aged quickly, and the hardware felt somewhat underpowered (similar to what probably PinePhone owners feel right now); but it never had a problem to work as a phone or had serious stability issues.
Yes, I am aware we're comparing apples to oranges, and that Google had enough resources to make it work well enough. Still, they probably didn't make it work overnight, and neither should we expect mobile Linux could do that.
Disclaimer: while I did not use G1, I used Samsung Galaxy i7500 which had the same specs (minus the keyboard), and the experience I described is based on using it.
It can be just as well my memory telling me that G1 was worse than it actually was 😉
My, possibly unpopular, opinion about PinePhone's hardware is that it's more than fine, its just us that are wasting resources left and right. Sure, SXMO works like a charm, but one could say that it's because of how minimalistic it is. But try flashing SailfishOS (unfortunately not fully OSS) and see how snappy and fluid it is - and it's not short of animations in its UI. Heck, even Ubuntu Touch is pretty performant!