PinePhone

[domubpkm]

@PINE64 thank you for your clarification made

[PINE64]

Hey everyone, a lot of PineTab news (probably relevant to some) as well as some PinePhone news. We expect a lot of PinePhone news next month as outlined in the post: https://www.pine64.org/2019/08/05/august-update-london-meetup-pinetab-news-soedge-and-more/

[PINE64]

Pictures of the PinePhone case. Now we're eagerly waiting for the PCB [edit] hope no one minds the images being so large...

[advocatux]

@PINE64 great!

BTW will the camera have a sliding cover?

[PINE64]

@advocatux Nope. Figured no need for it since you can just turn the camera off permanently via the hw switch.

[edit] but you can 3d print your own cover with a sliding cover - the .stp file is publicly available.

[advocatux]

@PINE64 ah yes, that makes sense.

[A Former User]

@PINE64 It's a great flashback to see screw holes. User-repairable devices have become so old-school, but I love it. Nice to see a phone you'll be able to fix yourself. You might want to send one of these to ifixit once it's done.

[PINE64]

@visiblink Yes and it goes together like a puzzle Think anyone will be able to fix it by themselves.

[domubpkm]

Hello @PINE64 . I went here. I was a bit surprised !

[PINE64]

@domubpkm interesting find. The world is full of surprises

[PINE64]

Here is the PCB in a few days we'll know if we've got a PinePhone or not yet

[B2288]

@PINE64 in the august update, it was said that

we’re going back on what we initially said, namely that “the PinePhone will first ship when software is ready”. The reality of the situation, however, is that advanced users want to get their hands the PinePhone, and we don’t want it sitting in a warehouse until end-user level performance is achieved.

Will the hardware be finalized before advanced users/early adopters are allowed to order? i.e. if I buy an early adopter phone, will the hardware I get will be the same as someone who orders after the release?

[PINE64]

@B2288 The pictured boards will be used in the prototypes. Granted the prototypes work then, after a few minor tweaks (there are always tweaks regardless of if everything works or not), the first production run for enthusiasts should be no different to units that will ship later.

[B2288]

@PINE64 Great, thanks. I look forward to getting one and helping with software development!

[pjk2012]

@Photojoe4 said in PinePhone:

Is there a way to confirm that the Pinephone will work as well "out of the box" as my Nexus 5 running Ubuntu Touch? In other words, would I be losing any functionality by switching to it when it comes out?

Particularly I'm hoping WiFi Display will be working since it's presently broken on Nexus 5.

[pjk2012]

Following an Android custom ROM group, I've seen the maintainers add VOLTE by picking commits from carriers that have it.

[PINE64]

@pjk2012 @B2288 I'll leave the software questions to developers as they know best

[PINE64]

I'm told it works a lot of testing ahead to determine if its all OK, but for now it looks like we're at least on schedule

[trainailleur]

Hurrah! Very nice to see the steady progress.

[Djhg2000]

@PINE64 said in PinePhone:

@B2288 The pictured boards will be used in the prototypes. Granted the prototypes work then, after a few minor tweaks (there are always tweaks regardless of if everything works or not), the first production run for enthusiasts should be no different to units that will ship later.

Please put a revision number somewhere on the device anyway, you never know when you discover a previously invisible hardware bug.