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Re:How a $2k 'Made in the USA' Phone Is Manufactured by curtis3389 on Thursday April 10, 2025 @10:41PM (#43650002)
Pine64 updated the PinePhone with the PinePhone Pro.
Re:How a $2k 'Made in the USA' Phone Is Manufactured by mixmastamyk on Thursday April 10, 2025 @10:46PM (#43650023)
Guess I thought of that one as more like a "fix," since the first one was not fit for purpose. Still not good enough, needs spec bump and driver support.
Re:How a $2k 'Made in the USA' Phone Is Manufactured by beeflet on Thursday April 10, 2025 @11:27PM (#43650233)
I was looking at potential linux phones the other day, postmarketOS has ports for phones as new as fairphone 4 and OnePlus 6. They don't have any phones with decent camera support though.

https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices

Re:How a $2k 'Made in the USA' Phone Is Manufactured by mixmastamyk on Friday April 11, 2025 @11:46AM (#43655172)
Hmm, I saw the fairphone 5 on another page and the hardware support is not substantially worse.

Install page says you need fairphone.com to give you permission to unlock. :-/

Re:How a $2k 'Made in the USA' Phone Is Manufactured by beeflet on Saturday April 12, 2025 @08:44PM (#43669109)
yeah most android phones do, it has to do with the modem I think
Re:How a $2k 'Made in the USA' Phone Is Manufactured by throwaway74354 on Friday April 11, 2025 @05:16AM (#43651945)
>driver support

It's Pine64, their whole business model is «Here's the hardware, you're on your own now».

Re:How a $2k 'Made in the USA' Phone Is Manufactured by mixmastamyk on Friday April 11, 2025 @11:25AM (#43654910)
Not a good business model if they can’t afford to rev the hardware.
Re:How a $2k 'Made in the USA' Phone Is Manufactured by seba_dos1 on Friday April 11, 2025 @10:40AM (#43654334)
It was more like making the PinePhone catch up to Librem 5. I'm writing this on my L5 and I still have no prospects if I wanted to upgrade.