Will Pinetab 2 spare parts be available?
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As to make this tablet truly sustainable....
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(08-14-2023, 03:39 AM)vatin Wrote: Will Pinetab 2 spare parts be available?

As to make this tablet truly sustainable....

Irrespective of any promises made, history gives us a pretty reliable answer. The answer is no. The Pine Tab 1 got no support past the first production run. I have a Pine Tab 1 that needs a new motherboard, otherwise is fine.

My expectation is that there is some loose promise, maybe a few more production runs, then a PineTab 3 gets announced and all support for PineTab 2 gets dropped. If you look inside the tablet there is zero upgrade path - they could have added support for a CM4 compute module (or one of their own modules) for example, but decided not to.

It is demotivating to invest time into a platform that becomes immediately obsolete.
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Who knows for sure, there are some spare parts in the store for devices; it takes time & money to re-work tooling and design new products.

With the PT2 & PT-V being just developer units, I would think parts would be forthcoming, unless we get another Covid-type shutdown or problems relating to the American, Taiwan & China issue.
PinePhone, Pinebook Pro & PineTab2 owner.
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Pine Store will carry PineTab-2 and Pinetab-V spare components.
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(08-14-2023, 11:30 PM)tllim Wrote: Pine Store will carry PineTab-2 and Pinetab-V spare components.

hopefully this doesn't come across as pushy, but is there an expected timeline for when the Pine store will carry parts for the new tablets? i need to get my hands on a new pt2 mainboard, mine got fried during a storm.
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(08-14-2023, 11:30 PM)tllim Wrote: Pine Store will carry PineTab-2 and Pinetab-V spare components.
Just wondering if the PineTab-V motherboard be interchangeable with the PineTab2 ? might be the only way to get hold of a PineTab-V Smile ie replace the mb in a PT2
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(12-02-2023, 09:53 AM)WhiteHexagon Wrote:
(08-14-2023, 11:30 PM)tllim Wrote: Pine Store will carry PineTab-2 and Pinetab-V spare components.
Just wondering if the PineTab-V motherboard be interchangeable with the PineTab2 ? might be the only way to get hold of a PineTab-V Smile ie replace the mb in a PT2

Can interchangeable.
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