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New Linux phone drops Looks inside Still the good old A76 and A55 cores (they're 8 years old at this point)
by simjnd 1y ago
New Linux phone drops
Looks inside
Still the good old A76 and A55 cores (they're 8 years old at this point)
- spaqin 1y agoAs much as I admire the FOSS nature, it's always the problem of underspeccing and overpricing the tech at the same time.
- hackrmn 1y agoAnd don't forget _overdimensioning_. Vendors love this because volume scales cubically with increase in any one of width, height and depth -- they're not the ones carrying the phone, but they can pack more features into one, quite literally. FOSS vendors more so since they need more ground to compete on (hardware being older and price being high enough because of economy of scale).
- nine_k 1y agoStandard-size phone screens are easier to procure. This determines the dimensions. Same for batteries.
- zamadatix 1y agoFOSS mobile hardware vendors already have a hard enough niche to target, "people who say they want small phones" is just fuel to the already burning fire for them. Each niche they add does not add the user base together, it multiplies the userbase percentages.
- marcos100 1y agoNo economies of scale. Niche things will always be more expensive.
- varispeed 1y agoIf you are small, there is no way around it if you want to grow. "overpricing" is often higher cost of parts at lower quantity, future R&D and other costs that are much higher than for big corporation.
- unsungNovelty 1y agoIts not the OSS nature. Any product from scratch will be expensive to start with and reduce in price eventually. There is a reason why Tesla didn't start with Model Y first. Underspeccing is specific to mobile industry. But I agree with you here. Going for premium specs is a better way to start. But they'll have to pick a specs that works for them the company and can reach maximum people. So I also acknowledge that it's tough.
- gigatexal 1y ago[flagged]
- righthand 1y agoYou’re expecting cutting edge tech in something that gets no financial backing to make it practical? That doesn’t seem fair.
- jauntywundrkind 1y ago2x A78 + 6x A55? G68 MC4 GPU. It's not great but should be pretty usable, spec wise!
- numpad0 1y agoThat used to mean couple SI prefixes worse than current gen processors, which was why old equalled useless. Not anymore, so okay.
- MarsIronPI 1y agoWell, the CPU is OK for mobile, but the GPU/GPU-driver situation is not. Just look at the Pinephone to see a device with fine CPU performance that struggles with UI. Though, in fairness, some of this could be fixed with more optimized software. Also still waiting for more userspace tools to support the v4l2-requests API for hardware video decoding.