(03-27-2021, 04:18 AM)ncc Wrote: everything i read here would make the phone more expensive.. for example, i don't buy a phone that costs more than 150 USD, but i made an exception for a linux phone.. if you go higher, you reach less people.. but there is still room for something between the pinephone and librem 5
To my mind price could go higher for better hardware - lets say around 300-500 euros you can get new pixels with grapheneos, so this price would make pinephone 2 a good competition
Also we have already seen regular and convergence editions with different prices and specs of pinephone.
Keeping one phone as lower spec (camera, maybe screen) and cheaper and other more beefy but with higher price. Majority of hardware could stay same -so same software etc would work for both
(03-27-2021, 02:31 AM)sagaracharya Wrote: +1 on above answer. I'd not like more RAM though. I believe a small phone shouldn't use much RAM. Current RAM is enough.
I'd like a RISCV processor to remove ARM TrustZone.
I'd like better camera for sure. Hardware switch is great but in today's world of surveillance, a flap for front an back cam can be helpful to make sure that psychologically we know that camera is off.
And I'd also like shipping to Maharashtra, India.
RiscV is very interesting and cool option.
I guess decision will depend on how well software works on arm vs risc. might be riscv more feasible for pinephone 3
as for ram - only problem is current web, firefox can easily eat few gigs with opened tabs
