PinePhone – Open Source Smart Phone Supported by Major Linux Phone Projects

Re:PinePhone – Open Source Smart Phone Supported by Major Li... by nousermane on Sunday July 25, 2021 @06:19AM (#27948102)

Depends on which year's. Pine64's SoC, Allwinner A64 is 4x 1,2 GHz Cortex-A53 chip, giving you about the same level of raw performance as a 2013 flagship phone.

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Re:PinePhone – Open Source Smart Phone Supported by Major Li... by fsflover on Sunday July 25, 2021 @06:56AM (#27948249)

And it will run smoothly, if you choose simple software: https://sr.ht/~mil/Sxmo/.

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Re:PinePhone – Open Source Smart Phone Supported by Major Li... by lasagnaphil on Sunday July 25, 2021 @07:33AM (#27948380)

Though from a few videos it's got an incredibly primitive UI that mainly uses the side buttons instead of the big touchscreen. The interface seems much more apt for a feature phone than a smartphone. (Though I realize there can be some niche demand for a non-touchscreen Linux phone with a hardware keyboard... Maybe that's what might be more achievable in the FOSS Linux hobbyist scene than something like the Pinephone or the Librem 5.)

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