10-10-2020, 06:37 PM
(10-09-2020, 06:34 PM)patrickmollohan Wrote: Being honest, I'm not sure this device is really a necessity unless you can absolutely commit to the $99 (or less) price point. My PinePhone is already closer in nature to my old Palm PDA than any of my Android phones (which is a good thing); I can't really see a reason for this existing. I would instead focus on the products you currently offer, iron out all the kinks, and hire some software devs to work on the kernel of the PinePhone. For that matter, let's see some back covers for the PinePhone. The keyboard and gamepad would be great to see materialised. From there, if LoRa is what you think justifies creating this new device, add an ESP32 to the back of the PinePhone, have it communicate over the I2C pins. Maybe consider partnering with Espressif or Arduino to get some microcontroller back covers. Or a back cover that adds NFC support. Or one that adds both a microcontroller and NFC. Or make a battery cover. Or one that adds a higher megapixel camera. There are so many opportunities with what you already have. Also....let's talk about this server that keeps going down....might be good to invest in something more stable. I believe it was a TWiT video that came out last month during the major outages. So many potential customers turned away because they couldn't get to your site. Seriously, there are so many better things to put your money into right now. And I don't mean this to be ugly, just would like to see more commitment to existing products and customers.
This is a very good post and points. Accessories to the pinephone would be appreciated. Ignoring those points though it should have:
- BT
- AC wifi
- GPS
- Front/rear cameras
A question? By not using the same size screen how well that affect the keyboard slated for the pinephone, which I imagine should also work for this device?