PinePhone Pro is HERE - A worthy upgrade from iOS & Android? - Techlore
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Date: 2022-04-15
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Tobias
The software stack really needs to improve a lot on Linux phones. So I hope these Pinephone Pro devices get more developers on board. Linux phones can become a great alternative in the future while even staying compatible with some typical Android apps through Anbox or Waydroid. Native applications already run great on the Pinephone in my opinion. Sure it lags a bit because the GPU isn't great and the memory speeds aren't particular high. But Pine64 seems to address those points with the Pinephone Pro. So it's heading in the right direction.
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The software stack really needs to improve a lot on Linux phones. So I hope these Pinephone Pro devices get more developers on board. Linux phones can become a great alternative in the future while even staying compatible with some typical Android apps through Anbox or Waydroid. Native applications already run great on the Pinephone in my opinion. Sure it lags a bit because the GPU isn't great and the memory speeds aren't particular high. But Pine64 seems to address those points with the Pinephone Pro. So it's heading in the right direction.
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Edouard
I think this is a really interesting project and I'm happy that people exist who spend time and effort working on it.
Personally I'd like to support them and buy the product, but i'd prefer to use AOSP because of the huge amount of work that has gone in to optimisation for the limited resources of a smartphone. Maybe the Fairphone would be a better fit for me.
It's also really nice to see how many comments there are under this video. This is obviously a topic that interests a lot of people.
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I think this is a really interesting project and I'm happy that people exist who spend time and effort working on it.
Personally I'd like to support them and buy the product, but i'd prefer to use AOSP because of the huge amount of work that has gone in to optimisation for the limited resources of a smartphone. Maybe the Fairphone would be a better fit for me.
It's also really nice to see how many comments there are under this video. This is obviously a topic that interests a lot of people.
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Michael
I genuinely cannot wait to get my hands on one of these devices. The simple ability to take my desktop on the go is a convenience which seems unreal in the hands of penetration testers. If we could obtain a pinephone with perhaps 2-3 more gb of ram, we could be holding in our hands a pentester's dream device! However, as of now 4 gb of ram is still powerful enough to run most if not all pentesting tools so I most definitely will be getting a hold of one of these bad boys as soon as possible!
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I genuinely cannot wait to get my hands on one of these devices. The simple ability to take my desktop on the go is a convenience which seems unreal in the hands of penetration testers. If we could obtain a pinephone with perhaps 2-3 more gb of ram, we could be holding in our hands a pentester's dream device! However, as of now 4 gb of ram is still powerful enough to run most if not all pentesting tools so I most definitely will be getting a hold of one of these bad boys as soon as possible!
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bu
give me more CPU and battery and I'm in. rockchips are a pain in the ass, give me a core m3-7y32 for less power consumption and better performance, maybe double the ram, and forget about trying to make it as thin as a normal smart phone. I'm willing to compromise a lot more on form factor and pay a lot more than they're targeting to get out of Google's ecosystem.
edit: oh, and faster storage. emmc is excruciating.
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give me more CPU and battery and I'm in. rockchips are a pain in the ass, give me a core m3-7y32 for less power consumption and better performance, maybe double the ram, and forget about trying to make it as thin as a normal smart phone. I'm willing to compromise a lot more on form factor and pay a lot more than they're targeting to get out of Google's ecosystem.
edit: oh, and faster storage. emmc is excruciating.
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Joe
I got the original Pinephone just to play around with it, and in principle I would love a Linux phone, or viable alternative to iPhone / Android. But yeah, it's a terrible experience using a desktop OS crammed into a phone screen. Many apps literally just go off the edge of the screen because they don't scale down, and even many of the apps marked -mobile friendly- are still not done right.
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I got the original Pinephone just to play around with it, and in principle I would love a Linux phone, or viable alternative to iPhone / Android. But yeah, it's a terrible experience using a desktop OS crammed into a phone screen. Many apps literally just go off the edge of the screen because they don't scale down, and even many of the apps marked -mobile friendly- are still not done right.
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Faris
This can be a worthy alternative to Android. I saw a video of someone running desktop GIMP software inside Manjaro Phosh Desktop Mode from his vanilla PinePhone and I'm totally amazed by its performance. At this point, the likes of Samsung DeX and Motorola Ready For suddenly become irrelevant.
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This can be a worthy alternative to Android. I saw a video of someone running desktop GIMP software inside Manjaro Phosh Desktop Mode from his vanilla PinePhone and I'm totally amazed by its performance. At this point, the likes of Samsung DeX and Motorola Ready For suddenly become irrelevant.
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Socks
1) It should be able to dual boot Android and desktop Linux, so users aren't stuck not being able to run an app.
2) The linux distro it ships with must have a killer app. Otherwise people are better off sticking with Android.
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1) It should be able to dual boot Android and desktop Linux, so users aren't stuck not being able to run an app.
2) The linux distro it ships with must have a killer app. Otherwise people are better off sticking with Android.
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Orion
The midrange bit is a bit of an over statement. The specs are definitely higher low end. a snapdragon 6xx or 7xx device will absolutely trash it and newer 4xx devices as well. I guess if you buy this, it doesn't matter to you.
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The midrange bit is a bit of an over statement. The specs are definitely higher low end. a snapdragon 6xx or 7xx device will absolutely trash it and newer 4xx devices as well. I guess if you buy this, it doesn't matter to you.
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Scaboodle
I don't understand why we need a pure Linux phone when we already have Android.
Just fork Android and remove/add any features you want to it.
The Linux community should be supporting Android not competing with it.
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I don't understand why we need a pure Linux phone when we already have Android.
Just fork Android and remove/add any features you want to it.
The Linux community should be supporting Android not competing with it.
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Jack
Honestly PinePhone has been nothing but a trainwreck, I tried the first one and it legit gave me headaches and made me sick. The Pro is only gonna be slightly better and it'll likely flop as bad as the first one.
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Honestly PinePhone has been nothing but a trainwreck, I tried the first one and it legit gave me headaches and made me sick. The Pro is only gonna be slightly better and it'll likely flop as bad as the first one.
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