Suggestion: better performing pinephone
06-08-2020, 04:37 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-08-2020, 04:39 PM by PhoenixLandPirate.)
I've only been using my pinephone for the day, and of cause theres no real way to push the system yet, unless you put something like Manjaro on it, or find something pretty heavy with Libretine, which I just haven't bothered to do.
Currently theres nothing really pushing that need, I've seen videos of people playing mario 64 pc on the PinePhone, I dont know how well it ran, and if there where significant slowdowns, the videos have been taken down now because of copyright infringement, but if that runs fine, I think many games that will come to Linux on arm will probably run half decently.
I've been quite amazed at how well the pinephone runs actually, it only takes about 3 more seconds to open fluffychat from a fresh launch then my OP3.
My biggest negative with the hardware so far, is that the screen looses detail in darker colours, if you compare the colours of Podbird on the OP3 and Podbird on the PinePhone you can really see the difference, I think AMOLED's just produce better darks, and really make the colours pop, where as IPS displays are apparently better with lighter/whiter colours, but honestly, I think most people in the community either wouldn't notice, or would but wouldn't care, because its pretty much a nitpick, but also, Pine does replacement parts, the idea that they could give people the option to buy a IPS or AMOLED screen in the store, for you to replace your original screen, isn't to of an obtuse idea, and the software can manage that change, it happened with the FairPhone 2.
Either way, I am very impressed with what the PinePhone can do with the hardware power it has, obviously, if you want to play 3d games on this, you might have a hard time, most probably, but for everything else, I think you'd be shocked at how good it is for its price, and the hardware it has in it!
Currently theres nothing really pushing that need, I've seen videos of people playing mario 64 pc on the PinePhone, I dont know how well it ran, and if there where significant slowdowns, the videos have been taken down now because of copyright infringement, but if that runs fine, I think many games that will come to Linux on arm will probably run half decently.
I've been quite amazed at how well the pinephone runs actually, it only takes about 3 more seconds to open fluffychat from a fresh launch then my OP3.
My biggest negative with the hardware so far, is that the screen looses detail in darker colours, if you compare the colours of Podbird on the OP3 and Podbird on the PinePhone you can really see the difference, I think AMOLED's just produce better darks, and really make the colours pop, where as IPS displays are apparently better with lighter/whiter colours, but honestly, I think most people in the community either wouldn't notice, or would but wouldn't care, because its pretty much a nitpick, but also, Pine does replacement parts, the idea that they could give people the option to buy a IPS or AMOLED screen in the store, for you to replace your original screen, isn't to of an obtuse idea, and the software can manage that change, it happened with the FairPhone 2.
Either way, I am very impressed with what the PinePhone can do with the hardware power it has, obviously, if you want to play 3d games on this, you might have a hard time, most probably, but for everything else, I think you'd be shocked at how good it is for its price, and the hardware it has in it!