PINEPHONE - Beta Edition with Convergence Package Linux SmartPhone - PINE STORE
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The EU PinePhone orders will dispatch weekly from Poland transit warehouse.  For non EU PinePhone orders placed before November 21 will be dispatched from Hong Kong warehouse in November 22 week. For non EU orders placed after November 21,  estimated dispatch from Hong Kong warehouse in late December 2021.    BODY Dimensions: 160.5mm x 76.6mm x 9.2mm Weight: 185 grams Build: Plastic Colour: Black SIM: Micro-SIM DISPLAY Type: HD IPS capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors Size: 5.95 inches Resolution: 1440×720 pixels, 18:9 ratio PLATFORM OS: Manjaro with Plasma Mobile OS build Chipset: Allwinner A64 CPU: 64-bit Quad-core 1.2 GHz ARM Cortex A-53 GPU: MALI-400MP2 MEMORY Internal Flash Memory: 32GB eMMC System Memory: 3GB LPDDR3 SDRAM Expansion: micro SD Card support SDHC and SDXC, up to 2TB CAMERA Main Camera: Single 5MP, 1/4″, LED Flash Selfie Camera: Single 2MP, f/2.8, 1/5″ SOUND Loudspeaker: Yes, mono 3.5mm jack with mic: Yes, stereo COMMUNICATION Worldwide, Global LTE bands LTE-FDD: B1/ B2/ B3/ B4/ B5/ B7/ B8/ B12/ B13/ B18/ B19/ B20/ B25/ B26/ B28 LTE-TDD: B38/ B39/ B40/ B41 WCDMA: B1/ B2/ B4/ B5/ B6/ B8/ B19 GSM: 850/900/1800/1900MHz WLAN: Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, single-band, hotspot Bluetooth: 4.0, A2DP GPS: Yes, with A-GPS, GLONASS FEATURES USB: type C, USB Host, DisplayPort Alternate Mode output Sensors: Accelerometer, gyro, proximity, ambient light, magnetometer(compass) Actuator: Vibration Motor Privacy Switches: LTE (include GPS), Wifi/BT, Mic, and Camera BATTERY Removable Li-Po 2750-3000 mAh battery Charging: USB type-C, 15W – 5V 3A Quick Charge, follows USB PD specification PACKAGE CONTENTS PinePhone USB-A to USB-C charging cable USB-C Docking Bar – 2x USB Type-A host ports, digital video port, and 10/100Mbps Ethernet port Device Warranty: 30 Days Note: Beta Edition PinePhones are aimed solely at early adopters. More specifically, only intend for these units to find their way into the hands of users with extensive Linux experience. Due to Lithium-ion battery in PinePhone, the shipment of PinePhone orders will be handled differently from other Pine64 products, that’s the reason we didn’t allow to combined PinePhone order with other Pine64 products. Sorry for any inconvenience caused. The EU VAT tax collection is based on Poland rate where the transit warehouse is located.

I'm ready to completely break from Google forever for everything.

I'll try anything to get away from Google at this point, even if it means downgrading hardware.

  • VHS [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I have a Linux phone that I use as a sort of internet tablet (my cell phone is a dumbphone). The UX (with Gnome/Phosh) is like 90% there and is actively worked on. It's totally usable for browsing the internet, messaging, watching videos, and other basic tasks. A few small annoyances here and there. Having full shell access is really great too, as I can do anything from the command line that I could on a desktop Linux PC. Ubuntu Touch, while a very polished and complete UI, was basically made and promptly abandoned by Canonical years ago and has been kept on life support by the efforts of a small community since. Its future is uncertain.

    This only applies to native mainline Linux devices like the PinePhone and Librem 5: the biggest hurdle for the time being is standby battery life. The power usage when actively using the device is normal, but idling, it can barely get through one day. Hence why I use mine as a secondary device. On Android-based devices that run Ubuntu Touch the battery life is likely to be much better, similar to Android itself. The biggest downside with these is that older devices have already received their last kernel and security update years ago, and will likely never get another. Even on brand new Androids, 3 years of kernel updates max, and often only 1 or 2.

    The easiest way to stop using Google services is to install a ROM such as LineageOS on your Android phone and no Google services. The UI and base experience is the same as regular Android, there are plenty of FOSS apps on F-droid and the like, you can use popular FOSS apps like Firefox mobile and Telegram with no hiccups, and you can install most non-free Android apps through APK mirrors if you really want to. I used a phone like this for years after ditching Google and before going dumbphone. It's very practical.

    • cawsby [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Thanks for the overview of the state of FOSS on phones. I'm downloading LineageOS for three of my phones now.

      I should have left after the debacle that was the Google Reader wind down for Google Plus. Used to talk to dozens of colleagues on their shared RSS feeds, and G+ and Twitter never replaced that. Trusting Google with anything was a mistake, but it especially hurt having social media accounts with people I knew in school yanked. The vast majority of those people never went unto Twitter or anything else. Fuck Google.