PinePhone Pro [GNU/Linux smartphone] has been discontinued

I looked into buying one a while back, and the spec sheet said it was using a 9 year old processor, and PinePhone uses a 13 year old processor.

It wasn't "discontinued," no one was working on it for years, and it was pointless to purchase.

The PinePhone is an outdated ripoff.

"No one was working on it for year" is both untrue and unfair. There have been continued improvements (both PinePhone and PinePhone Pro), and I know that there are people who have put in the midnight oil to make them happen.

What that work was not is 'paid for by PINE64'. It's also not been enough to raise the bar enough to make the phone work well enough; but if you consider what's involved there, it makes sense.

You don't just need to write/fix a driver, you need upstream (or at least a distribution) to accept it and include it for that work to make a meaningful difference for anyone else.

> It wasn't "discontinued," no one was working on it for years, and it was pointless to purchase.

If it was being made and sold and now it's not, then it was discontinued. You may point out reasons why it was discontinued, but that is in fact what happened.