06-26-2020, 04:55 AM
(06-25-2020, 12:51 PM)amosbatto Wrote: So here are the PinePhone innovations:
- - First phone where the maker outsources all software to multiple community OS projects.- Ported to more Linux distros and more environments (7 interfaces) than any phone ever produced.- First phone with physical switch to convert the headphone jack into a UART serial port.- First smartphone to promise 5 years of production.- Second phone maker (after OpenMoko) offering booting from a microSD card.
Pretty impressive for a $150 phone.
The community outsourcing and long production promise go together. It takes a really long time to get everything supported upstream in mainline linux. Years probably, at the rate the development is going now.
So it would be kind of annoying to help upstream everything (which may take 2 years still), and not being able to get the new phone afterwards.
