long term plan for pine phone?
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(07-26-2020, 04:23 AM)Peter Gamma Wrote: Is there any information available whether the next version of the Pinephone ships again with Ubuntu touch, or will it stay with Postmarket OS?

The whole goal of PINE64 is to produce hardware for community software projects. PINE64 wants to create hardware for tinkers, developers and tech enthusiasts, which is why it tries to involve as many different community projects as possible. At this point, mobile Linux projects like Plasma Mobile, UBports, postmarketOS, LuneOS, Maemo Leste need to attract large communities of volunteer developers, testers and users, but they have a very hard time doing that if there is no new hardware to run on. The Maemo Leste community is still using the ancient Nokia N900 and most UBports developers are using the Nexus 5 and postmarketOS didn't have a single phone model where all the hardware could be used before the PinePhone.

When these community projects have more volunteer developers and more users, they can eventually create a system that is good enough for average end users, but PINE64 is not trying to decide which software should be used on the PinePhone and wants to give its customers the choice to decide on their own.

In one of the recent monthly updates, PINE64 said that it would produce custom back covers for each community project, and people could buy them separately for $15 each to support the software project of their choice. I assume that the generic Community Edition phone will be next model that PINE64 releases and there won't be any more Limited Editions for particular distros.


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long term plan for pine phone? - by dln949 - 07-25-2020, 02:46 PM
RE: long term plan for pine phone? - by hiimtye - 07-25-2020, 07:04 PM
RE: long term plan for pine phone? - by amosbatto - 08-17-2020, 08:07 PM
RE: long term plan for pine phone? - by bcnaz - 07-26-2020, 04:46 AM
RE: long term plan for pine phone? - by wibble - 07-26-2020, 11:03 AM
RE: long term plan for pine phone? - by Cree - 07-26-2020, 12:58 PM
RE: long term plan for pine phone? - by daniel - 07-26-2020, 10:05 AM
RE: long term plan for pine phone? - by natasha - 07-27-2020, 01:25 PM
RE: long term plan for pine phone? - by bcnaz - 08-18-2020, 05:27 PM
RE: long term plan for pine phone? - by bcnaz - 08-20-2020, 03:11 PM

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