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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 hendrikboom on Saturday January 18 2020, @01:52PM (1 child)
I am still waiting for a reviews that saya either Pinephone or Librem 5 actually work as phones.
I really want to be able to use a distributed revision management system to coordinate information between my computer and my phone. But I still need to make phone calls.
Any ideas, by the way, how to coordinate between Linux and Facebook Messenger and receive notifications?
For good or ill (maybe really ill) my family has decided on Facebook Messenger to coordinate family events.
Or another, better such service that works on Linux AND android. I might be able to get them to convert someday.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 18 2020, @08:33PM
There's a bitlbee (use IRC for all kinds of IM protocols) plugin for FB messenger: https://github.com/bitlbee/bitlbee-facebook [github.com]
Pinephone does work as a phone depending on the OS you use. I think postmarketOS (the default it ships with) is not really up and running yet, but Sailfish works, and probably others, the Pine forum has a lot of activity around it.