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PinePhone Linux Smartphone Priced at $149 to Arrive This Year

posted by takyon on Friday February 01 2019, @10:00PM   
from the pining-for-the-torvalds dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for AndyTheAbsurd

Smartphone users are usually torn between the two choice — Android or iOS. Their dominance is such that other competing OS like Windows, BlackBerry OS, or Symbian have almost been abandoned.Those who don't want either of them can opt for Pine64's Linux phone dubbed the PinePhone which offers good hardware and software at an affordable rate of $149.

The phone's specs aren't great, but it does include a headphone jack (I wonder if it's capable of using the JACK audio system?) and the article notes that it may provide physical switches for disabling various components. The company behind it, Pine64, also produce the PineBook Linux laptop, which also use an ARM processor.

Source: https://fossbytes.com/pinephone-linux-smartphone-149/

Related: Kickstarter: Pine A64, Cheaper and More Powerful than Raspberry Pi 2 Model B

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• Re:I'll believe it when I see it Re:I'll believe it when I see it (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 02 2019, @08:53AM (2 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 02 2019, @08:53AM (#795337)

  Enjoy getting your privacy ass-raped by jews.

  Even if you don't have a fagdroid or a goyphone, everyone around you does, and these things are always listening. Either move to a cabin in the woods or plug in to the botnet along with everybody else.

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• Re:I'll believe it when I see it (Score: 3, Touché) by takyon on Saturday February 02 2019, @12:22PM

  by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Saturday February 02 2019, @12:22PM (#795368) Journal

  The Kaczynski Dilemma

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• Re:I'll believe it when I see it (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 03 2019, @05:36AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 03 2019, @05:36AM (#795600)

  so our choices are

  1. privacy ass-raped by jews (which phone or whatever do they have?)
  2. privacy ass-raped by microsoft (american? or can we now say that they are indian?)
  3. privacy ass-raped by chinese (huawie)
  4. privacy ass-raped by samsung (can we call this Korean? )
  5. privacy ass-raped by google (they seem to be panracial with a lean towards panethnicity heading towards indian dominated)

  what is common here is that it does not matter who is doing it
  you are doing to be violated any which way you go

  it is like voting with two evil candidates? choose the lesser evil?

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