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PinePhone Linux Smartphone Priced at $149 to Arrive This Year

posted by takyon on Friday February 01 2019, @10:00PM   Printer-friendly
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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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 02 2019, @03:06PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 02 2019, @03:06PM (#795406)

    Smartphones are crippled in more than one way. Today I set up an old PC that is barely half as powerful as my current smartphone, even when considering the arm vs. x86 performance. I have an old smartphone whose battery is dodo, I could have used it instead of the pc and wifi router combo, but no, even attached to DC it will seek power from the battery and shut down randomly. Talk about tariffs, I'd stick a 100% STUPID CONSUMER DONT BUY THIS tax on this crap.