In June 2020, writing for Fossbytes, Sarvottam Kumar wrote about how Mobian aims to bring Debian 11 Bullseye to mobile
ARM64 devices by creating custom images for installation. LinuxNews said it had a broad variety of apps, but the battery life on a
Pinephone, at 4–6 hours, was still too low. As of June 2020, Mobian is waitlisted for
DistroWatch coverage. In July 2020, Jean-Luc Aufranc in CNX Software article called it "a work in progress" he said it was "interesting" that it uses
Purism's Phosh interface, and while it includes many apps, several functions were broken or unreliable. Marius Nestor of 9to5Linux wrote about availability of Mobian as an alternative to
postmarketOS on PinePhone. He said there were many apps available, but also many were not optimized for mobile devices. In October 2020, LinuxNews described Mobian as better than
Ubuntu Touch but not as up-to-date as
Arch Linux on the Pinetab. In January 2021, Pine64 announced sales of PinePhones with "Mobian Community Edition" installed. Niklas Dierking wrote in heise.de about Pine64's announcement of availability of PinePhones with Mobian in two different hardware configurations, based on Pine64's announcement. In January 2021 Matteo Gatti of Linux Freedom wrote a detailed review of Pinephone with Mobian OS. In August 2021, Jean-Luc Aufranc of CNX Software recommended Mobian as "most stable OS" for using PinePhone as a
mobile hotspot, in a detailed review of software and hardware. In September 2021, in a detailed review of
PinePhone for
Hackaday, Bryan Cockfield wrote about experimenting with, and switching to Mobian, or "mobile Debian". He called the ability to
SSH into it like any other computer and install software with apt "excellent features" which "worked surprisingly well" for the
Kodi media player. As of March 2023, Droidian, a mobile operating system based on Mobian, is waitlisted for
DistroWatch coverage. == References ==