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The Pine Formula

The Pine Formula

I should start by notifying readers that is a slightly old post, initially written in reaction to first Fairphone, then Pine64 announcing their "true wireless headphones" in April. In spite of this draft staying on my laptop since then, the situation has not particularly changed. Some days ago, I was

First camera samples from the PinePhone Pro revealed

First camera samples from the PinePhone Pro revealed

So far, cameras on Linux phones have been known for their extremely basic results. Lacking good sensors, premium optics, and most importantly good post-processing capabilities, the PinePhone's, extremely basic sensor cannot often offer the shots one would expect. Even on the Librem 5, which uses a somewhat better Samsung sensor,

The PineNote is an e-ink notebook that runs Linux

The PineNote is an e-ink notebook that runs Linux

While our short holiday interrupted us for some weeks, we have become used to Pine64 launching some of the boldest mobile Linux devices ever seen. Still when, in their August update [https://www.pine64.org/2021/08/15/introducing-the-pinenote/], PINE64 announced a new device, we remained particularly surprised. The PineNote,

PINE64 to launch PineCom, a cheaper, modem-free PinePhone-like PDA

PINE64 to launch PineCom, a cheaper, modem-free PinePhone-like PDA

The first PinePhone, initially launched (more or less) as a cheaper alternative to the Librem 5, gained enormous success thanks to continuous efforts by both software developers and the team, releasing several variants, upgrading specifications and making this $150 Linux phone probably much better than most people would have expected,

Exploting pogo pins: PinePhone gets modular

Exploting pogo pins: PinePhone gets modular

Modular phones have been hypothesized for years, with Phonebloks and Project Ara being the most popular concepts and just some shy experiments, like Fairphone 2, LG G5, Motorola Moto Z and Librem 5 inheriting part of the modular smartphone paradigm through replaceable boards, PCIe and other simple expansion mechanisms. However,

Yet Another Librem 5 and PinePhone comparison

Yet Another Librem 5 and PinePhone comparison

Let's start off with mentioning that both these new phones are great steps forward for Linux. While they will probably not beat Android and iOS in popularity, they will at least give Linux power users a device that can be called a Linux phone instead of the usual "technically it's

PinePhone "Brave Heart" early bird developer edition now available for $150

PinePhone "Brave Heart" early bird developer edition now available for $150

About two months after the first Purism Librem 5 batch [https://tuxphones.com/purism-librem-5-linux-smartphone-shipped-initial-aspen-batch-list/] was shipped, Pine64 has finally made the very first batch of PinePhones openly available for sale. We discussed the differences between these two pocket-sized Linux phones in an article some months ago [https://tuxphones.com/purism-librem-5-vs-pine64-pinephone-linux-smartphone-comparison/