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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.
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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)
(Score: 2) by stormwyrm on Saturday January 18 2020, @04:34AM (3 children)
Numquam ponenda est pluralitas sine necessitate.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 18 2020, @12:53PM
The price and idea of it has me THIS close to buying one, but I have way too many toys sitting around, /and/ I already ordered a Pinebook Pro and an Odroid-GO Advance last month. Pine really knows how to make techies want to pull the wallet out.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Saturday January 18 2020, @01:46PM
Given Purism's propensity to send its software upstream (and maybe Pine does this too) they are likely to be using a lot of the same software.
I expect them to have phones that function as phones at approximately the same time.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Saturday January 18 2020, @04:49PM
If I had the resources to A) get the peripherals working myself (in other words, about 10x more free time than I currently have), and B) take over production of the open design when the current team gets disillusioned with it (in other words, about 100x more free cash than I currently have, and another 10x boost on the free time), then, sure - I'd dive right in, it's a great start.
Hopefully, others out there do have at least the time to prove the peripherals - if they do that I'd bet someone with the money will keep the hardware production rolling.
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