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Pine64: Introducing the PinePhone Pro

55 points by cardz 5y ago

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cardz 5y ago
Link to the pre-order page: https://www.pine64.org/pinephonepro/ https://www.pine64.org/pinephonepro/
- thepete2 5y ago
  and if you're a developer you can get it even earlier https://preorder.pine64.org/ https://preorder.pine64.org/
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thepete2 5y ago
"Tasks such as opening applications, browsing the internet, interacting with the user interface or watching videos are on par with recent mid-range Android smartphones." If this holds true, I'm truly excited
- thepete2 5y ago
  I also appreciate their honesty when it comes to software maturity: > While mobile Linux isn’t in a state that could satisfy most mainstream electronics consumers, we recognize that a sizable portion of our community is ready to make the jump to a Linux-only smartphone today.
- mdp2021 5y ago
  Battery efficiency?
Klasiaster 5y ago
For me the main pain point of the current PinePhone is not its performance, it's the driver and firmware issues. Mainline Linux does not work well with the current PinePhone and various patches are not upstreamed or not even written yet to fix the remaining bugs. The cameras don't work with most software, the out-of-tree WiFi driver has stability issues to the point where I rather use LTE or USB, the USB-C firmware is flunky, the modem firmware crashes and needs a lot of workarounds. I hoped they chose components for the PinePhone Pro that work out of the box in terms of firmware and having no downstream Linux patches in the near future, but it seems quite similar to the current PinePhone, only slight improvements. The camera OV5640 is the same (hopefully someone came up with better v4l2 integration since the second camera is different?), the modem EG25-G is the same, no info on the used USB-C chip, but at least there is a better WiFi chip.
cosentiyes 5y ago
More discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28877955 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28877955

55 points by cardz 5y ago

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cardz 5y ago

Link to the pre-order page: https://www.pine64.org/pinephonepro/ https://www.pine64.org/pinephonepro/

thepete2 5y ago
and if you're a developer you can get it even earlier https://preorder.pine64.org/ https://preorder.pine64.org/

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thepete2 5y ago

"Tasks such as opening applications, browsing the internet, interacting with the user interface or watching videos are on par with recent mid-range Android smartphones." If this holds true, I'm truly excited

thepete2 5y ago
I also appreciate their honesty when it comes to software maturity: > While mobile Linux isn’t in a state that could satisfy most mainstream electronics consumers, we recognize that a sizable portion of our community is ready to make the jump to a Linux-only smartphone today.
mdp2021 5y ago
Battery efficiency?

Klasiaster 5y ago

For me the main pain point of the current PinePhone is not its performance, it's the driver and firmware issues. Mainline Linux does not work well with the current PinePhone and various patches are not upstreamed or not even written yet to fix the remaining bugs. The cameras don't work with most software, the out-of-tree WiFi driver has stability issues to the point where I rather use LTE or USB, the USB-C firmware is flunky, the modem firmware crashes and needs a lot of workarounds. I hoped they chose components for the PinePhone Pro that work out of the box in terms of firmware and having no downstream Linux patches in the near future, but it seems quite similar to the current PinePhone, only slight improvements. The camera OV5640 is the same (hopefully someone came up with better v4l2 integration since the second camera is different?), the modem EG25-G is the same, no info on the used USB-C chip, but at least there is a better WiFi chip.

cosentiyes 5y ago

More discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28877955 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28877955