11-05-2021, 06:43 PM
(11-01-2021, 01:30 PM)ragreenburg Wrote:(10-31-2021, 04:43 PM)ivanB1975 Wrote:(10-29-2021, 02:32 PM)gamerminstrel Wrote: Linux on the pinephone has tons of optimization to be had still. For the sake of comparison, I tried GloDroid (Android) on the pinephone, and it runs blazing fast. Glo-Droid is in no way a stable release of its own, but I Installed Firefox, some electron apps and some emulators, and it blows the pants off the equivalent apps on Manjaro or Mobian.
The Pinephone Pro will be able to play more graphically intensive games and such, but 85% of the issues the non-pro model are facing are absolutely software issues that the Pro version will face as well (just with more muscle to hide it). They can and will improve with time.
I don't see why they would offer a discount to upgrade from the current pinephone when there's nothing wrong with it and its not abandoned. The previous mainboard discount was because of hardware revisions. If they do, then great; maybe sign me up. But in their shoes I wouldn't feel its necessary.
This let some hope that the actual devices we own will be used at full at some point.
I still disagree on the fact the actual pinephone is not anymore upgradable.
I really think you are overreacting to this announcement. The biggest issue with the pinephone on the software side is the modem and the fact that phosh still isn't a mature mobile DE. Both of those translate directly across to both the PP and the PPPro. Literally the only difference will be the more power in the PPPro, no software changes aside from the fact that it can handle software faster. It's not like new Phosh releases aren't going to get push to the PP or the modem won't be updated on the PP.
I agree. Both phones have exactly the same modem, the same screen resolution and both have ARMv8 SoCs, even containing exactly the same CPU cores (Cortex A53) except for the Cortex A72s the RK3399(S) also has but those by definition are 100% compatible instruction set wise with the A53s as that is a requirement of big.LITTLE ARM CPU designs. The biggest hardware difference is the newer and more powerful GPU of the RK3399(S), which also supports newer graphics standards. That is where some divergence in performance and features may *eventually* develop but I am sure that there will always be plenty of user interfaces and basic apps that are compatible with the Mali 400. Let's not forget that the Pinetab (and Pine A64 (LTS)) also has the A64! (and that there are a lot of other Linux devices with Mali 400/450 GPUs embedded, using Lima)