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They plan on making a keyboard for the Pinephone which effectively gives you a ~$250 phone-sized linux computer with a cell phone modem. That's seriously cool
by thepete2 6y ago
They plan on making a keyboard for the Pinephone which effectively gives you a ~$250 phone-sized linux computer with a cell phone modem. That's seriously cool
- thepete2 6y agoOh and btw. for the price of an iPhone charger [0] you can literally buy 3 extra batteries plus charger ... [1] [0] https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MHXH3AM/A/magsafe-charger https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MHXH3AM/A/magsafe-charger [1] https://pine64.com/product-category/smartphone-spare-parts https://pine64.com/product-category/smartphone-spare-parts
- baybal2 6y agoThose 65W Navitas based chargers are actually all exact copies of the reference design, and most are made by a single factory. GaNFETs are there mostly for the marketing, and don't make any much more difference than few percents efficiency at such power level.
- aidenn0 6y agoI'd have to look at the numbers, but a few percent points of efficiency can be a big difference in the power (and thus heat) dissipation of the device; going from 90% to 92% efficiency reduces the power dissipated in the device by 20%.
- voltagex_ 6y agoThey won't let you buy those batteries in non-US locations. The "suggested alternative" is to file down a Samsung battery.
- freedomben 6y agoAs appalling as this is, I kind of love it. Pine stuff is for hackers 8-)
- anderspitman 6y agoI love that the battery is replaceable. Though I wish mobile devices included tiny backup batteries that give you ~1min to swap the battery without having to reboot the device. This would especially be useful for my gopro which I often use for long captures that I don't want to interrupt. But it would also be nice on my PinePhone.
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- tartoran 6y agoAnd it will be a very usable keyboard with additional power underneath.
- abdullahkhalids 6y agoWhere and when can I get a decent laptop with a cell phone modem built in, so I can just use that for messaging apps, and only own a dumb phone.
- pengaru 6y agoLenovo has offered WWAN options for ages, continuing what was already an established IBM ThinkPad option.
- pimeys 6y agoI have an old ThinkPad X230 with a WWAN modem. Installed OpenBSD to it and it just works as a nice small travel laptop. The model is from year 2013.
- abdullahkhalids 6y agoHow do you use the WWAN? How could I install, say Whatsapp or Signal, on my laptop?
- nvrspyx 6y agoYou'd have to activate it with a cell provider that supports WWAN and then you can just use the desktop (or web) versions of WhatsApp or Signal.
- ArchOversight 6y agoThe WhatsApp desktop app (or web version) actually communicates with your smart phone to do the actual sending/receiving/communications. If you turn off your cell phone and attempt to use WhatsApp web it will fail.
- danielheath 6y agoSignal has a desktop app; you might need to put the sim into an android/iOS device for initial setup.
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