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Smartphone As Exclusive Word-Processor Device? (& Pinephone)


there’s times i prefer writing longform writes on a smartphone -

is there such a thing as a smartphone shaped/sized electronic that prioritizes a Word Processor App?

is this a good use case for a Pinephone?

have read about them here on several occasions & was wondering if anyone on HN had a personal review on how a Pinephone may double as a “mini-mac” to type notes/outlines/stories on?

i.e. is interface nice?

thanks for reading


  👤 aaronchall Accepted Answer ✓
I would expect you to be able to get that to work on a Pinephone.

I used to carry a tablet with a bluetooth keyboard (clamshell design) that I would ssh into a server to code with (when not using Termux itself as the coding environment).

Again, it was cool, but most everyone else had laptops.


👤 PaulHoule
I type long comments into HN with tablets and it is a bad habit because it makes me look brain-damaged. It seems like the spell checker is possessed by the devil but it is even worse if I turn it off.