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This is really interesting. I was searching for something like that: big screen, no cloud or other services dependency, FOSS, nice price, etc. I just want to se
by squarefoot 5y ago
This is really interesting. I was searching for something like that: big screen, no cloud or other services dependency, FOSS, nice price, etc. I just want to see its performance when dealing with old books and magazines that are 100% scanned graphics with no OCR, and/or PDFs with complex diagrams, schematics etc. Those usually bring to knees the less powerful readers and would probably require some serious CPU power along with more RAM and storage. It would also be nice if the software could sync with a NFS or SMB/CIFS local (or remote via VPN?) server plus local caching so users can have their entire library at hand without using USB keys or SD cards.
Also please, add one 3.5 headphone jack if it's not already there (from the article it seems not).
And the PinePhone keyboard also looks gorgeous!
- chrismorgan 5y agoA 3.5mm jack isn’t going to be easy to fit into a tablet that’s 7mm thick. It’s about a millimetre thicker than USB-C.
- red369 5y agoThe 5th gen iPod Touch (and 6th and 7th) is only 6.1 mm thick, so while I don't think just because Apple can pull it off Pine64 should be able to also, it seems like there might physically be enough space. I was going to note that the 5th gen iPod Touch is from 2012, but then it feels like much of the miniaturisation progress since then has involved removing the jack. Agree that it's probably not easy though.