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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: 2) by FatPhil on Sunday February 03 2019, @06:26PM

    by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Sunday February 03 2019, @06:26PM (#795751) Homepage
    The wifi (often combined wifi and bluetooth) cores typically communicate with the AP on their own dedicated bus. If the wifi core wants to do evil, the OS running on the AP has to also be evil enough to cooperate. And why the AP/radio wouldn't be a master/slave setup is a mystery - the wifi saying "i have data for you" when the wifi is supposed to be off should be reason for the driver to just disable that interrupt, and possibly power down the chip - it's clearly misbehaving.
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