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What we really need is a good dialer/sms/mms set of applications and some easy to use USB LTE radios that can do voice and data at the same time.<p>Then we could all be making perfectly usable phones by plugging the parts together and slapping an OS on it, just like PCs in the 90s. :)
I hadn't heard of Pine64 before now. Are there any good reviews of their Pinebook laptop out there? A cheap 64-bit ARM laptop could be fun to play with...
I thought all cheap Android phones count as a "cheap Linux phone?"<p>I really want a phone that I can plug into a screen and keyboard and have a full desktop environment. (I know Samsung makes something like this)
I bought a Rock64 on the basis of good benchmarks, but found the stability of the board absolutely atrocious unfortunately. Not sure if the same goes for the Pine64? Certainly for the Rock64 there was virtually zero post sale suppor.
Anyone know what OS they are planning on using on it?<p>I had an Ubuntu Phone and it was a bit disappointing. Lack of apps, and the majority were web based - which didn't work well offline (not useful when travelling and you can't use maps). When I bought an Android last year it had improved a lot. I can only imagine any new Linux based OS will be even further behind.<p>Its a pity as I hate the locked down, walled garden nature of Apple products, and the high price tag and I hate the intrusive spying nature of Andorid / Google.
1440x720 seems like a pretty high resolution display for $100 device.<p>The laptops would be <i></i>perfect<i></i> for me if they had longer battery life than 6 hours. Make it 12 somehow with expansion or something and I'd buy one immediately.