Incase you're ordering the PinePhone & looking forward to jump on Linux development; check out Ubuntu Touch by UBPorts[1].
UBPorts community have done a commendable job in continuing Ubuntu Touch development after canonical left it. Even Nexus 4 receives regular updates, albeit old kernel due to libHybris
Ubuntu Touch is the most accessible Linux phone now because of their support to older available devices. Unfortunately, they don't get enough attention as Purism or PostmarketOS gets.
Hopefully, PinePhone should change it.
Any real, day-to-day usage feedback on the PineBook Pro? I've looked around on their forum + reddit, and outside of a couple of reviews (mainly only a day or so into ownership), I haven't found much. This one seems to be the most in-depth so far: http://students.engr.scu.edu/~sschaeck/misc/pinebookpro.html
About the PineTime
> Since this is a community driven side-project, we have started considering making the dev-kits available to everyone in the store.
That would be awesome. I've been looking for an open watch to play with recently. I hope they go forward with that idea.
I would like to order both a PinePhone and a PineTime (plus a couple more for friends), but I have no idea if they will be available for order/shipping at the same time[1].
And ideally, I would like a pineTime as well. I would like to write a program to alert me when I'm forgetting my phone while travelling, for instance :)
[1] Asked here: https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=8158&pid=51528#p...
Got my Pinebook Pro preorder in. Will order a PinePhone when it opens as well. Using both as a way to test the waters of using Linux as my daily "consumer PC" replacement, since the price makes it fairly painless to do so.
I'm very interested in these machines. Hopefully someone will post a review of them on HN once available. I'm especially interested in hearing how the trackpad is, considering people on HN are always complaining about Linux and trackpads.
I wish the site had better photographs. The keyboard pictures are awful, and the Javascript they use to show the pictures prevents me from zooming in to see any detail.
Does anyone know if the Pinephone will be able to work on Verizon's network? I am very interested in getting a Pinephone to try out and maybe make some apps for but I don't want to buy another SIM and plan from somewhere else.
I have been clamoring for this product for years. If this looks good to you, check out their other offerings. They are extremely compelling. Also, the $1.99 serial console is very nice.
Does anyone know who are the people behind Pine64? Where is the company based/incorporated.
I couldn't find any info on the website.
Really cant wait to get my hands on a pinephone, it looks absolutely amazing. Hopefully I will be quick enough to get a BraveHeart model for christmas, I would rather not test my technical skills with assembling the developer edition.
Hardware switches for almost everything and open source software :D
As a dissatisfied customer, I bought a bought a bunch of A64-LTS with Poe, eMMC and battery holders.
Turns out their eMMCs are defective. Here's what's happening:
The eMMCs ignore the first read instruction, and then work from the second one on. On Linux boot, initrd makes a read request that never returns, and hangs.
If you boot off of a mSD, it woris well. You can still mount the eMMC, but you cant boot with them.
I did receiver a report that someone found a bootable (doesn't ignore first read) eMMC. But that was 1.
(Disclosure, I opened a PayPal dispute and sent back the eMMCs of my own expense. But the never responded so I got all $293 back. This goes along with 0 communication even when I was trying to do the right thing. I'm also trying to start a hardware business, and chose this platform because of no embedded radios, etc, and 1gigE on its own SPI bus.)
Tldr. Defective hardware, don't buy.
Any idea of the expected price?
lol @ q3 cpm & cpm1a screenshot on that Pinebook Pro image...
> We make no profit from selling these units. If you think that a minor dissatisfaction, such as a dead pixel, will prompt you to file a PayPal dispute then please do not purchase the Pinebook Pro. Thank you.
This just sounds unsustainable