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The RAM and internal storage seem to be too less otherwise I might have bought it.
by foo2020 6y ago
The RAM and internal storage seem to be too less otherwise I might have bought it.
- stamps 6y agoYou can install an SD card.
- avery42 6y agoThe PinePhone has 2 Gb of RAM, which is plenty for a smartphone (especially running Linux). You can put in a micro SD card to get more storage.
- sukilot 6y agoHow is that plenty? Is Android not Linux?
- swiley 6y agoI’ve used laptops with that little ram. Don’t rub gnome or chromium and it’s fine.
- SahAssar 6y agoAndroid and postmarketos are both linux in the same way as whales and rabbits are both mammals. It's true, but not usually the useful way to compare them.
- 3131s 6y agoPostmarketOS is based on Alpine, it's minuscule in comparison to Android.
- curioussavage 6y agoThey definitely seem low when compared to androids, but If 2 GB works as great as it does on my iphone 7 then it should be doable to get a good experience here too. 3 GB is the max ram for the chip, hopefully they come out with a version that has that, or one with a different soc that can support more. Like the other guy said with SD card you won't have an issue with storage.
- bArray 6y agoDo remember that this device is running a full kernel, so actually you can get the speed and memory benefits of running such. Expect some Raspberry Pi 3-eque performance.
- heavyset_go 6y agoThe biggest bottleneck in RPi performance has always been the slow SD card access times. I have hardware from the Pi 3 era that still flies because they run off SSDs.