Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

SoylentNews is people

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

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


Original Submission

 
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
Display Options Threshold/Breakthrough Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
  • (Score: 2) by TheRaven on Saturday February 02 2019, @01:01PM (2 children)

    by TheRaven (270) on Saturday February 02 2019, @01:01PM (#795375) Journal

    It doesn't have a removable battery, but aside from that I'm very happy with the OnePlus 5T that I bought a couple of weeks ago. The battery lasts long enough that I haven't had any problems and charges very quickly. Unlike the newer versions, it has a headphone jack and no notch in the screen. Apparently people want those two 'features' so it's now a lot cheaper than the 6 / 6T and the price seems to have been dropping for a little while - it will probably hit your requirements soon. Installing LineageOS on it was easy, with F-Droid and the privileged extension so F-Droid can automatically update things. It supports two SIMs, so you can stick in a cheap local one while travelling but keep your phone number working. The fingerprint sensor on the back works fine with LineageOS, as does everything else. It took a while to get a GPS fix the first time (I guess there's a calibration step somewhere?), but after that it's been working well. OnePlus have now released Project Treble support, which should make it easy for LineageOS to keep supporting it long term (device drivers not using unstable Linux kernel binary interfaces, so you can upgrade the kernel independently of the platform drivers).

    I had been using a first-gen Moto G since it came out, but it was starting to die (loose connection to the speaker meant that it didn't ring 80% of the time). This one has 8GB of RAM, 128GB of flash, and a 4+4 big.LITTLE core configuration, which seem like specs that will last me a very long time - it has as much RAM as my last phone had flash...

    --
    sudo mod me up
    Starting Score:    1  point
    Karma-Bonus Modifier   +1  

    Total Score:   2  
  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 02 2019, @01:07PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 02 2019, @01:07PM (#795379)

    I knew I had to upgrade my laptop when my phone had more ram... Shit is ridiculous. How can I even use 8 gigs on a phone? I barely even need that much 99% of the time on a real computer.