(01-09-2024, 05:28 AM)polrus Wrote: Does pine64 realize that lack of internal WIFI is a major showstopper for this product success?
Of course, they realize that, the question is: Does they want, that their product is successful ?
They could build a mega cool open source ARM device. It would be much, much more expensive than the price of the PT2.
I would buy PT2 for 500,- EUR but with faster CPU, NVME Support and working ax WiFi.
But their strategy is to offer cheap devices, so that anybody who is interested in ARM and Open Source could buy one, just to try. So they took a lot of compromises.
They could not get the same greate Realtek BT/WiFi Combo they got for PineTab V, so they choose a shit chip, without working driver.
It would be much better IMHO to produce PineTab 2 with Realtek WiFi and PineTab V (which is highly experimental) with the bes2600 WiFi.
But it is, like it is. As long as some good guy will not sit down and rewrite a proper driver for bes2600 - we wouldn't get proper wifi support...
Maybe PineTab 3 will be better
