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I'm running several-years-old non-flagship phone, but own a UBports edition PinePhone to tinker with. Personally, I'm interested in eventual higher specs becau
by qchris 6y ago
I'm running several-years-old non-flagship phone, but own a UBports edition PinePhone to tinker with.
Personally, I'm interested in eventual higher specs because I think it enables more things down the line. For example, I have 2 GB of RAM right now (maybe 3 GB if I now decide to replace my mainboard). But what if Pine64 decides to put go the Raspberry Pi route, and suddenly add an option with 8 GB? Maybe you could use an LTE-enabled SIM card to build a cheap remote environmental monitoring node based on the PinePhone, since it's already got a camera, GPS, and the data link built in, and could access peripherals through the Convergence functionality. Who knows? Optional higher specs only extends the range of possibilities.
- OJFord 6y agoOh yeah, and that's great, I didn't mean to suggest it isn't fantastic to have each part replaceable (not just for upgrades, but repair too!) - I was just responding to 'high enough spec parts aren't available yet', I'm curious what people do other than play games that they (think they?) need higher specs, or the specs of today's 'flagships'.
- qchris 6y agoGotcha; seems I may have misinterpreted your original post. I do think that the 2->3 GB update was meaningful; I believe that using a web browser like the Firefox ESR version on my current Mobian version can eat up some RAM, so the extra GB actually difference for more compute-intensive tasks, but there's diminishing returns past this point for most cases. I personally agree that using 'need' to describe modern flagship specs is probably a little strong.