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Re:JingPad A1 – Consumer-level Linux Tablet by yjftsjthsd-h on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @02:09AM (#26487184)
Pinetab should be usable before this ships, I'd bet.
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Re:JingPad A1 – Consumer-level Linux Tablet by noobermin on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @02:42AM (#26487355)
The pinetab is not good enough to be anyone's daily driver
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Re:JingPad A1 – Consumer-level Linux Tablet by yjftsjthsd-h on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @10:24AM (#26491651)
And the JingPad is currently vaporware. I'm not saying that either works today; I'm betting on which will exist and be usable first.
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Re:JingPad A1 – Consumer-level Linux Tablet by 29083011397778 on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @03:45AM (#26487697)
Considering how many people on the Pine64 forums and messaging groups are claiming to use their pinephones for their main phone, I suspect the Pinetab could be. The number isn't high, but it's higher than I would have guessed before (and after) I bought and started playing with mine.

I'm not saying it's a good experience, but some people have lots of patience and very few (phone-requiring) responsibilities.

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Re:JingPad A1 – Consumer-level Linux Tablet by noobermin on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @04:38AM (#26488020)
Who are these people? I have a pinephone and it is nowhere near ready to be my main phone at all. It can't even make phone calls reliably.

It's a cool thing to play with but it is nowhere near to being a main driver.

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Re:JingPad A1 – Consumer-level Linux Tablet by madpata on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @11:35AM (#26492654)
> Who are these people?

People on the Pinephone forum. Simple survivorship bias.

Judging from the videos I've seen, the Pinephone is for tinkerers for now.

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Re:JingPad A1 – Consumer-level Linux Tablet by 177tcca on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @10:20AM (#26491592)
It's 2021 and people still don't care about boot security of their devices?
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