PinePhone

Marathon2422

@kugiigi
taxes taken at source for a umidigi phone thru Aliexpress was $17 ,on $ 177 phone shipping to usa

AppLee

@Marathon2422
Yes, taxes will be probably around 10% so 15$
But in case of the PinePhone, taxes are not taken at source they explicitly notice that they can be expected on delivery.

Marathon2422

@AppLee
A new Aliexpress policy, doing it at source.
but gives an idea what to expect,no nasty surprizes

Marathon2422

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PINE64

@kugiigi all PinePhones will ship from Hong Kong; NOT mainland China.

vandys

In the past, imported electronic devices arrive, and then a while later (1+ week or so) a note from the USA Federal people arrives with a bill for your imported device. My memory is more than 10%, but it was a while ago. YMMV.

kugiigi

@PINE64 Thanks, I just have it shipped directly here in the Philippines
Hopefully, not much taxes
Excited to play with it and perhaps become my main driver eventually.

makeixo

@vandys Maybe with the crazy dude in office now its 25%.

vandys

@makeixo said in PinePhone:

@vandys Maybe with the crazy dude in office now its 25%.

Nah, I told him I'm rich, so no tax and I can deduct the price.

Marathon2422

Is it feasible, for ubports installer to be set up to install ubports on the pinephone.
If its possible ,surely many would opt for this “ easy way ” and then many would keep
ubports as their base “OS” with the option to “play” from the sdcard.
just a thought,( but i guess you are doing that already).

Giiba

@Marathon2422
I would assume that is the plan, but I doubt it will happen until the port is past initial testing.

Marathon2422

https://youtu.be/mlO3jxU_bZk

This is quite informative

hoi

Will the pinephone support miracast? Would be a cool feature! (Of course this phone will be amazing without it as well )

PINE64

Hey Guys,

Here is a look at the PinePhone (dev) hardware, enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwkcr3CvyCM&t=0s

trainailleur

@PINE64 said in PinePhone:

Hey Guys,

Here is a look at the PinePhone (dev) hardware, enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwkcr3CvyCM&t=0s

Was actually just watching that and came to this thread to post it here. But it's okay if you beat me in posting your own video, I don't mind.

Thanks as always for the great info.

Fla

@PINE64 where can I read about support of the PinePhone in mainline Linux kernel? How many patches / out-of-tree are out there, can you confirm that your goal is to run on a stock linux kernel?

Marathon2422

I saw a comment on Reddit, someone saying ,braveheart shipping beginning of January , about the third week of January for deliverys.... Phew
Hope it's sooner than that.

PINE64

A quick phone call with @mariogrip

PINE64

@Fla Think most 'general' - no OS specific - contributions go here
@Marathon2422 Thats about right, Brave Heart units will likely start shipping beginning of January.

Fla

@PINE64 said in PinePhone:

@Fla Think most 'general' - no OS specific - contributions go here

Thanks, there is indeed the PinePhone kernel sources there. However, my question is more about how far are we to see the PinePhone supported in the vanilla Linux kernel? Are there many patches in the kernel above that aren't in Linux (yet)? Who's leading the effort to see them integrated? (Pine64, or the community members...) Are there patches which will probably be refused for whatever reason leading to a situation where the custom kernel will ever be needed? Are there blobs which cannot be integrated at all? Etc... I'd love to read about that somewhere. No hurry of course, it's more important to get the phone working first, but detailed blog posts on that topic would probably bring a lot of interest to the project.