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posted by janrinok on Friday January 17 2020, @03:19PM   Printer-friendly
from the I'll-buy-one dept.

The GNU/Linux-based smartphone, PinePhone, has begun shipping. It uses the same Quad-Core ARM Cortex A53 64-Bit System on a Chip (SOC) as the the Pine64 Single Board Computer (SBC) and thus it also runs mainstream GNU/Linux. The goal is to provide a hardware platform for a wider variety of Linux-on-Phone projects. Hardware availability is expected to be five years.

Lilliputing: PinePhone Braveheart Linux smartphone begins shipping January 17th

The PinePhone is an inexpensive smartphone designed to run Linux-based operating systems. Developed by the folks at Pine64, the $150 smartphone was first announced about a year ago — and this week the first units will ship.

Herald Writer: The PinePhone begins delivery—a Linux-powered smartphone for $150

The PinePhone is powered through an Allwinner A64 SoC, which options 4 Cortex A53 CPUs at 1.2GHz, constructed on an attractive historical 40nm procedure. This is similar chip the corporate makes use of at the PINE A64 unmarried board pc, a Raspberry Pi competitor. There are 2GB of RAM, a Mali-400 GPU, 16GB of garage, and a 2750mAh battery. The rear digicam is 5MP, the entrance digicam is 2MP, the show is a 1440×720 IPS LCD, and the battery is detachable. There is a headphone jack, a USB-C port, and strengthen for a MicroSD slot, which you'll if truth be told boot running techniques off of. The mobile modem is a big separate chip this is soldered onto the motherboard: a Quectel EG25-G.

Earlier on SN:
PinePhone Linux Smartphone Priced at $149 to Arrive This Year (2019)
Librem 5 Backers Have Begun Receiving Their Linux Phones (2019)


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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Friday January 17 2020, @04:18PM (1 child)

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Friday January 17 2020, @04:18PM (#944577)

    However, at the moment this appears to be the current state of Linux support on the Pine Phone in general:

    Known Issues:

    Most apps do not work yet.
    Phone calles and texting does not work.
    Does not have power saving options.
    No sound card is detected
    Resize script is not run automatically. Run it manually with sudo resize-fs and reboot.
    Screen rotation does not work.
    Some scaling is still not right on the PineTab.
    Wifi is missing DNS. Fix = sudo systemctl disable systemd-resolved and reboot.

    I'm guessing they slapped the hardware together in the hopes that a community would form and solve their driver issues for them... I'll be waiting until a few more things are documented as working in a downloadable OS package.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 18 2020, @08:46AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 18 2020, @08:46AM (#944920)

    If you want to debug it by the end of next decade, I suggest to get rid of systemd.