PinePhone – Beta Edition Linux SmartPhone Preorder

Re:PinePhone – Beta Edition Linux SmartPhone Preorder by belval on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @09:35AM (#26566978)

These laws were made to protect regular consumers when they buy a washing machine to ensure that the manufacturer could not screw them over.

This is Pine64, which is about as close to community driven hardware development as you can get. They give you the open-source design and source code. If you think you might need a two year guarantee just don't buy their product, it's probably not a good fit for you anyway.

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Re:PinePhone – Beta Edition Linux SmartPhone Preorder by megous on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @01:04PM (#26569980)

> These laws were made to protect regular consumers when they buy a washing machine to ensure that the manufacturer could not screw them over over the last few decades:

That didn't work out very well. They just found different, more insidious ways of screwing people over.

https://www.ukwhitegoods.co.uk/help/buying-advice/washing-ma...

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Re:PinePhone – Beta Edition Linux SmartPhone Preorder by pta2002 on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @11:12AM (#26568240)

This isn't about needing it though, as far as I can tell it's legally required, so I don't know how (if at all) they're getting around that.

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Re:PinePhone – Beta Edition Linux SmartPhone Preorder by swiley on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @09:38AM (#26567014)

Regular consumers are not supposed to buy it. They probably wouldn't be able to use it and certainly wouldn't get much out of it.

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