Price of Pinephone is going to increase by $100?
12-02-2020, 03:41 AM
(12-02-2020, 02:44 AM)deedend Wrote:(12-02-2020, 01:39 AM)kern707 Wrote: IMHO as long as the price increase is small and serves a good purpose, it shouldn't be an issue, only if there was a sharp and un-explainable price increase, that is when I would say something is off or does no longer aligns with the values this project stands for from the begining.
Well, an increase in price of 67% is not really a "small" one... But if this can help to have a good Pinephone 2 (or pro?), hopefully with a great camera and decent open CPU/GPU, I'm happy for it.
In this case you are absolutely right,
but.. take into account that this price increase that they "plan", is quite steep since the PinePhone that was pre-sold 3-4-5-6 months ago as a device that could not make calls at all, camera did not work, UI responsiveness was sluggish etc.. now is capable of doing all of those things **almost** reliably.. so now it is not longer just an experimental device but an actual linux phone - I guess that now they want to charge what it actually cost them to build them plus a small margin (that hopefully is to be used to improve the PinePhone and not to "move into a fancier office"
), maybe Pine64 think that by now, most people who purchased the device as "early adapters" or as "testers / contributors" already have the devices, and the new price is aimed at more mainstream users who would like to try a PinePhone? who knows.. I am as clueless as you all 