How does the laptop work with the phone? It picks up the signal?

I used a pine phone for a few months when it first came out. It was a struggle in the state it was in at the time -- it could do light browsing and IM, but ironically the patchy bits were phone calls and the camera. Plus, if the Linux app you wanted to use didn't have a UI optimized for mobile it was very hit and miss.

Since then, the Pinephone Pro has launched. Haven't tried it but will give it a go, if only just to support the best stab so far at a phone on mainline Linux

+1 for getmash