TheUnelisted

7 ms·

1.
by TheUnelisted 5y ago
Well, the "Explorer Edition" units haven't gone on sale yet. Right now only developer units are on sale, and those are strictly for developers who will contribute to the kernel, firmware, drivers, and shell. But I'm sure
2.
by TheUnelisted 5y ago
They ship Manjaro ARM because the people behind PINE64 are manjaro fans and they think that Manjaro has a good business setup. It would have been much nicer to have PostmarketOS shipped stock.
3.
by TheUnelisted 5y ago
It does "run", but it's not really running Linux. It's just android with a halium layer running Linux software on top. So when android support ends, which it will seeing how they've not been great at software suppor
4.
by TheUnelisted 5y ago
The problem is that it's not 1-1 with X86, especially in regards to graphics capability (The GPU is really the weak link on the current PinePhone). The GPU for example uses Tile-based rendering, which requires software optimizations to
5.
by TheUnelisted 5y ago
No, because any pretty much any work done for one device will help the other since they are mainline devices.
6.
by TheUnelisted 5y ago
As for the headset, i would suggest looking into a pair of bone conducting bluetooth headphones, such as the Aftershockz, as they have a built-in microphone and also are open ear design as they obviously aren't normal headphones. So yo
7.
by TheUnelisted 5y ago
With a Bluetooth headset i think it would be okay for calls, and infact the keyboard might make it much nicer for texting. As for notifications: You can't see notifications from apps on the PinePhone anyways unless you disable suspend,
8.
by TheUnelisted 5y ago
I sure think so. Less a killer though and more of a real continuation of it. Not to say the Gemini, Astro Slide, etc isn't continuing it, but Planet Computer's devices run Android and not mainline Linux like the PinePhone does (su
9.
by TheUnelisted 5y ago
6,000 MaH
10.
Pinephone Keyboard Update(forum.pine64.org)
55 points by TheUnelisted 5y ago|20 comments