New futur user need info

[ToshiRaw_]

Hi there; i plan to buy a PinePhone on the next weeks and i got some questions: 

the first is: does the PinePhone already launched ? and ready to grab ?

i had to choose between PinePhone and Fairphone; but i prefer PinePhone due to personal preferences and special options on it; 
can somebody tell me more about materials used for build the Pinephone ? 
like: "is the Pinephone "fair" like Fairphone" ? 

thank you for an answer, and sorry for my bad English because i'm French :)

Hi

Very interesting topic. I didn't know about Fairphone.

I took a quick look to their site and it looks Fairphone goal is to make a better world, go with human rights, recycling, respect earth. 

Pinephone is not about that. Pinephone (as I understand) is about excitement for a Linux phone, is about privacy, out  from google and apple, is about technology. Fairphone is just an android (I think).

Pinephones are assembled in China. We all know how a company in China can be. We do not know the labor conditions of those workers. China normally is used because low prices in technology. This is not (may be it is...) a critique against Pine64 using China because is the way it is.

In summary. These are two completely different philosophies.

Anyway, very interesting point! thanks!

Hi, thank you for those informations; 

btw you missed something; Fairphone is also an "un-googled" smartphone; they developed /o/ OpenOS for it; 
it work with UBport like Pinephone, + LineageOS and their own OpenOS. 
(like on the UBport website the team said they fully support Fairphone model 2 and model 3).

but you also right, those Fairphone can work with Android;
and they started to create a fair business model from the start (fair mining in Africa), and decent building in China.
they are a bit expensive but i think it's okay for fair business and feel a better human ^^.
(i hope their project grow-up,  so project like Pinephone and others can use their fair business too, that's what they want to do)

for myself, at the end i will buy those Fairphones 2 and 3; 
BUT i discovered Pinephone, and it's more focus on physical + more accurate privacy and next step technologies, 
as i play to develop some Debian things on my RaspberryPi i prefer to start by a Pinephone, 
i can help and work on it; it's more exiting than just "buy a Fairphone and use it with OpenOS like Normal one"

so i want to buy a Pinephone first =D 

The PinePhone spare parts have their own section, rather than being listed with the phone itself. Depending on how things go with power management there may be quite a demand from Brave Heart owners for the later main board revision when it arrives.

oww thank you very much, that's what i wanted to know;


thank you all for those precious answers; take care of yourself with this pandemia and see you soon <3