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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: 2) by barbara hudson on Friday January 17 2020, @09:41PM (5 children)

    by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Friday January 17 2020, @09:41PM (#944743) Journal
    No, you're not good. No sound, no ability to make calls or text. You can buy a Linux tablet - which is what this is - that has working sound for half the price. This sounds like they thought they could get it to work, found out if was harder than they thought, and are still trying to foist them on people rather than scrap everything.
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  • (Score: 4, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 17 2020, @10:40PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 17 2020, @10:40PM (#944774)

    It sounds like you don't have a damned clue. Stop embarrassing yourself.

    Pine64 are releasing a hardware project sans OS. Deliberately. If nothing works yet then it is because the software hasn't been written yet. But it was never intended yet to be a daily driver.

    If that concept threatens you then stay in your iOS/Android duopoly. But right now you are spreading FUD like a complete ignoramus.

    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 18 2020, @12:16AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 18 2020, @12:16AM (#944811)

      The loud tranny is wrong yet again.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 18 2020, @06:20AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 18 2020, @06:20AM (#944894)

        If your tranny is making any noise you should take it to a good auto-mechanic. Like many problems in life the sooner you fix it the better.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 18 2020, @01:03AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 18 2020, @01:03AM (#944823)

    Your post makes it sound like you are not the target market. "You," in my response with the frequency info was both to the parent, and to folks who are actually considering a purchase of the device.

    This is marketed by and for folks who want to create a free (as in freedom) device* / software to replace proprietary spy devices.

    It is not a turnkey device, it is a developer / tinkerer device targeted at an even smaller subset of developers and tinkerers-- those who are believers in free software ideals, privacy advocates, etc.

    We've been waiting ages since the last freedom respecting phone, the open moko, or a bit less freedom respecting, but newer, the n900. If you don't want one, fine. But, please don't shit all over this. This is an amazing device, at an amazing price for us to begin working toward freedom respecting phones in our pockets. i had an early n900. When I first got it, I had to run a query from an xterm (running on the phone), to see my call history. I was not upset at the lack of polish. I was amazed and excited that I was able to open an f'ing xterm on my f'ing phone, and run a query against a DB containing call state! This phone was going to be amazing! And, in my opinion, it lived up to my expectations.

    I'm very much looking forward to getting my pine phone to start hacking on.

    * tough (maybe impossible, if you consider the baseband) to have a fully free phone, this one isn't quite there, but it is better than any of the commercially available phones. The Librem is a bit more free, but it still has binary blobs too.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 19 2020, @09:00AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 19 2020, @09:00AM (#945237)

    begone, tranny.