kzfaq.info/get/bejne/kMxgrdqim9CtY2Q.html Already distro-hopping 😅😅😅

I hope you all enjoyed the Unboxing and first look. I already flash Manjaro with Plasma mobile onto the phone. I just need my Arch. Some cool projects coming with the PinePhone!

I would like a mid-high spec version of this. Like the idea of portable linux.

Really looking forward to the future of these. Still rough around the edges, but it'll get there.

Lots of people in the comments missing the point, this device is here to solve the chicken and egg problem of trying to develop an os that has no target hardware. This is a device with phonelike hardware made to facilitate running linux. The fact that it is a bit dated is fine, what's important is that it is hardware supported by the mainline linux kernel so that developers can focus on how applications act and how they can make a phonelike linux distro without wrestling with their hardware or having to use a vm that doesn't fully mimmick a hardware device. The fact that you're dissapointed by this device is the reason it needs to exist, you want it, but you want a good experiance with it. It wouldnt make sense to make an expensive high end device that will be several years outdated before the software can provide a trouble free experiance that users want.

Long way to go man, long way to go for this to become a daily driver. -_-

Good job showing how much you appreciate the device without overpraising it. We all know that lineage is the better option as a phone.

Looks great...I'm a debian fan. Will chek it out!

Thank you for telling me to remove the plastic tab. I didn't know why my wifi wasn't working.

It's definitely going towards the right direction. It looks promising if R&D continues making improvements and upgrades.

Thx for the upload. I’ve been following this project since the beginning. But wow, still years away from being a usable device. Civilization might’ve moved on from mobile phones by the time this thing is ready.

4:00 "Let's go with 12345" Display shows: 45678

I love your methodical mannerism.

That world map mousepad is really nice, and so is the pinephone

Nice,, waiting on mine as we speak.

Wow , i want that distro on my mobile :- D . Looks great

Bro just wanted to point out when you say a hundred and ninety-nine dollars that it sounds like your saying eight hundrend and 99 dollars lol

Nice video! I look forward to what you think about Manjaro with Plasma Mobile!

Install Gentoo on it ;)

cooool thanks for sharing man

I am excited to see (eventually) another competitor in the mobile OS environment. Competition = Better options.

Mobian works really well. Terminal (King's Cross) really handy in this form factor.

Seems the “Mobile ” interface still needs loads of optimization. However, I would like to see it running plain Debian with XFCe or MATE as the default UI. I wonder if X86 to ARM translators are viable enough to run well enough on underpowered hardware that compares to the ZTE Zmax?

Interesting offer. Would you please comment how easy is to install packages and functionality of the docking station?Love Raspberry Pi but this seems a more portable option. Do you think is travel friendly just by attaching a keyboard and screen?

I've been waiting for a good mobile Linux OS for too long but I guess I'll have to stick with iOS for a little while more. That's a nice console for developers but not the greatest user experience remotely. I hope for "iOS level optimisation" in the future, maybe I'll have a chance to work on it too.

Want one of these really bad but man they’re hard to get hold of. Seems like they’re never in stock.

I am very curious about mobile Linux and phones like the Pine Phone. The biggest let down at the moment seems to be that there really isn’t great hardware on these devices yet. I would love to see a Linux phone that is at least as powerful as a mid-range Android phone like the OnePlus Nord or the LG Velvet.

Thank for the video

Thanks MUCH for great share and video! Got mine with new OS, BUT it was extremely unstable and could not update for a week or so, Manjaro IS BUGGY! So my question is what distro are you on now? And what has been the best for you? I loaded Ubuntu touch on SD, and it IS more stable, but does not recognize the dock? Thanks again and Cheers :)

Great video I think I like the Mobian edition better than the Manjaro but both would be good either way.

great video and beard :)

I'm excited for this and got in back for the first community edition but it isn't really usable for me until they figure out how to get MMS to work because without it you can't send/receive group chat messages or picture messages which is a deal breaker for me because I'm regularly in group chats due to family issues.

Great review video and great channel. We had big problems to install LibreOffice on the Linux PinePhone, and it is said to be not usable on the phone screen. Then, we found, that LibreOffice can be installed easily on a Raspberry PI zero W2 in about 4 min. Instruction can be found on KZfaq. A great coder in the Pine64 forum recommended to use Abiword and Gnumerics for the PinePhone. Abiword was hardly updated since the last 10 years. Abiword and Gnumerics run also on Raspberry PI zero W2. Why to buy a Linux PinePhone then? We can buy a Raspberry PI zero W2 for 20 USD and have the same Office suites on it as on the PinePhone. And we will also test a Fairphone 2 with PostmarkedOS which can be bought on ebay for 100 USD. In Switzerland, the PinePhone is 300 USD shipping included. We currently see no reason to buy another PinePhone.

Wonder how this would work on Verizon. I have Xfinity mobile but they use the Verizon network.

Greetings, a terminal like King's Cross could be used or adapted to any other android phone? Excuse my bad english

Wow! I wonder if I get one though..

looking for souped up phone hardware that you have drivers for and can optimise and configure to your delight that was a good unboxing thanks :)

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Mine is the cheaper one - just arrived today. So cheap it came without the side buttons, but I can push them with a plastic guitar pick. Unfortunately it also doesn't do the setup - can't partition the included memory. I'm trying to re-flash the OS. Suggestions welcome.

Крутое видео! А со стилусом есть более продвинутые устройства?

Can individual pixels be seen when looking at the Display? How is T-Mobile Service? Does the PinePhone feature VoLTE and VoWiFi on T-Mobile’s Network?

would've been even more crazier if it had like one of those blackberry style keyboards - not the older ones maybe but the newer android ones where they have a sick keyboard in the bottom. Still great having a pure linux phone.

If the main thing people want is SSH ability from their phone, there are plenty apps out there for Android and iOS. With Android you can also slap a custom keyboard (Hacker's Keyboard all the way) for proper access. I use JuiceSSH on Android for all my mobile SSH needs. That dock is gorgeous though, and it's very exciting to see raw Linux being brought into the mobile world. Hope to see this develop into some maturity as time goes by.

My KDE Plasma version dropped in my post about a month ago. Like you, going to have to distro hop. Not the most stable version of Linux around for this hardware. Neat hobbyist phone to work with, but definitely not recommended to be the sole daily driver. Lots of possibilities though. Being able to physically turn off parts of the phone is handy, though not as easily accessible as the Librem 5. Cheers!

Is it good for ordinary calls? How are the speakers? Is it sensitive to humidity?

Can you put it on portrait with a Bluetooth keyboard to do serious programming? Can you use apt-get to download stuff?

Still waiting for my mobian edition, should be here by mid next week, I'm exited, I know it's not well optimized yet but that will change. I've been waiting for true linux phones for years.

Nice video

Can you please do another video going deeper in depth ? Can you list all available packages in the Mobian repo ? or whichever distro you get to work. I would play Gnome games and try different web-browsers Can you please try a lightweight distro ? Does wayland work ?

Well,.. the idea is there for sure to make it a small form mobile computing platform. Obviously still rough around the edges, but the mere fact of having a replaceable battery makes it already interesting. And it runs Linux without the insane slurp of data. And hook it up to a desktop outfit for your text editing needs with the USB dock. If they manage to upgrade the specs a bit, it would be quite a contender as a replacement for chromebooks.

Wooow i want one right now

The PinePhone Convergence Package with 3GB RAM and 32GB storage costs $199, not $899. The RAM and Flash memory are soldered to the PCB and the only way to upgrade them is to replace the PCB, and the A64 only supports a maximum of 3GB RAM.

Lol you look so happy in the thumbnail

I installed Mobian, but cannot get the Software center to work. Trying to figure that one out.

I'm excited to see how they improve in the future, but at this point they are nearly unusable. Anroid phones and iPhones spoiled us with great responsivness, it's really not a good experience to have to wait for every app to launch on your phone. I hope they polish the idea because I'd love to have "pure" linux on my phone.

Can the arm processor handle games that support it such as mc java edition?

can Mobian or Manjaro supporting Android apps and GMS apps?Thanks.

which OS do you recommend most for the PinePhone?

While I am an android user, not even doing AOSP and being "part of the problem" for my personal convenience - I really am glad that this device and people willing to use and hopefully code and improve them are around, just so there is a plan B for the droided up google is all future. Sailfish OS was cool but also on limited platforms and generally some open creativity in phone space; for hardware and software is not bad when the competition is... Grim. I used to like android as "The computer in pocket" coming from Nokia S60 and seeing how limited and counter convenient for me iOS was setup to be. Still, today, the amount of background processing and listening our android phones do for god-knows-what reason is alarming when you realize it actually happens and a lot - how much harder google is making using more purified androids by curating their google-services enforced app store and overall showing why "do no evil" was removed as their motto ever less sneakily. I mean, I would not personally yet buy this and use it, but I also think having this option and platform for hardware and software is important.

If you flip horizontal, does the terminal get bigger automatically??

What is the exact set of bands that this device supports? Its homepage does not provide this info.

I hope they sell a lot of these. In the future there might be more with even better specs at a better price but only if these sell well. I suspect that they will.

Am goin to buy it

Yeah was wondering why mali 400 mp2 isn't that an older slow gpu and ddr 3 mem for $899 ?

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I'm still waiting on mine to get here! I went with the cheaper shipping so I'm stuck waiting

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I love it for the removable battery. Would this phone be quicker if it wasn’t running Linux? Like wiped out and installed android. These specs are not bad at all, previous Android models are much faster with similar specs

So in all honesty I feel just as confused as when I pushed play... Meaning I the feature & systems and how to use it just sounds more complex than power up and use. Does it come with everything installed or do you have to load it up and use it a specific type of way to maintain privacy? I don’t understand why you can use T-Mobile and still keep privacy? Perhaps this info is in several other videos but really who every offers a set up tutorial, how to use to maintain privacy and what mistakes may you want to avoid, like downloading which apps to avoid spyware, can you call people who don’t have a pine phone and still keep privacy will be the winner of this niche. Even if you sell it as a prerecorded course. I mean the learning curve doesn’t detour but it certainly will delay purchase time. Right now I’m thinking if I bought it could I use it immediately 😂😫. To many questions. I suppose the company has tutorials.

Hated the manjaro distro (both of them) super unstable, random crashes for almost any action. What ever you do dont let it go into deep sleep, the power button wont wake it and lets just say I got good at taking the case off to pop out the battery. So, this is a complaint on all touch K/B's not just pine64, and the onscreen keyboard was a PITA to use in terminal so I sat down at my desktop and ssh'd to the phone where I was able to get pacman to update after fixing a few things lol. Update took forever, 1.5h+ but I was still happy I was running linux on a phone (I got the 199 bundle manjaro community ed) and it was working, and updating woohoo. So I went off to watch some tv seeing pacman was on 71/481 updates. When I came back, I rebooted into the fresh update, except it wouldn't take the default password anymore, so I tried to ssh as root and ssh was no longer answering. something went screwy. So thats when I started distro hopping, I tried the other manjaro with KDE plasma, ran 30% better, still not even usable 4-6 crashes per hour. dd me up a fedora microsd, poped it in and aside from needing to fix a dns issue which is common on F33, been there done that on my desktop I have not crashed once, even after a full dnf update. however there is still an issue with the size of the window being launched the resolution and aspect ratio means you cant see most of some apps including tops and bottoms of windows and you cant move the app around the screen to get to the all important apply/done button. So I send the app to the background swipe it away and go back to what Im used to, a bash prompt. :)

There is no acceleration for the webbrowser so it's a bit slow.

"it's kind of like a really good raspberry pi" then why can't it scroll a webpage. can the pi not scroll a webpage too?

Hopefully the baseband firmware gets published soon.

would be awesome to have something small like this to run kali on....

hello you config pin in 12345 but the touch put 45678, the touch not working?

what if i cant update the phone? is there any link to be able to download?

Welcome to 2010, this phone is a dog. Thank you for presenting it, fun to watch.

how long did it take to deliver this? Just ordered one

Hi, guys, please, if I have the dock can I use a external monitor and charge at the same time? This will be great gift for some people if the phone allowed that.

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Now I have to buy one and use it not knowing it is having 2gb ram and also a quad core chip anyway it has debian it will be awsome

why cant librem and pine get together making a phone the size of the librem 5 with 6 switches on the side with a librem sized battery where all the hardware has appropriate software with ubuntu touch loaded as standard.

Sudo apt update first bro !!! Then sudo apt upgrade. Then sudo apt autoremove. I hope that fixes lag problems. Linux FOREVER.

Nice phone)

Hey I forgot my password in my pine 64 phone similar to yours. How do you reset the this phone

I am going to get one

Is there a gentoo Mobile?

Can you make video aboutthe best linux android phones

I have a Pinephone Ubuntu Touch edition. My Pinephone had a hard time making receiving calls and text messages (I was using Net10 the AT&T sim). The other problems I had was the camera and my Bluetooth headset do not work with the Pinephone. The camera I am ok with not working very well for now but the cellular and Bluetooth headsets are musts to work. I do like the Ubuntu Touch interface and all the apps available for it but at this point I cant use my Pinephone as a daily driver. I have tried Manjaro and had about the same issues but it has been awhile since I tried Manjaro and they update more frequently than Ubuntu Touch so maybe I will buy another sim and give Manjaro a spin again and see how it is doing now.

I never heard anything about this OS before. Would be great if it was launched in some huawei device instead of the HarmonyOS.

would be cool to test its limits. install gparted, exfat fuse, grub multibootloader, nextcloud, nginx, docker, sudo apt full upgrade..., graphene os, black arch, whonix...

I have tested just about all the operating systems for the Pine phone and the end results is it is not ready for prime time. Mechanically it is but the closest I got to a viable operating and application system was Ubuntu Touch, yet they still have a ways to go so my Pine 64 phone now sits in it's box waiting for the next upgrade to Ubuntu Touch because if anybody is going to make this work it's the team behind Ubuntu Touch they do have the edge thanks to Canonical 5 year effort.

loving linux more and more, this is just going to get better, cant imagine going back to windows , what a boring world, specially if you are a programmer

Couldn't they use a Mediatek G, Snapdragon 600XX or exynos 96XX ??? It is unnecessarily slow.

how good you brought this phone, I hope more smartphone with decentralized apps, to end these monopoly of big techs

Is this model with kill switches in the back?

what if u run wine on that?

Mobian is great if you have ever used Ubuntu or Raspberry Pi. I use Pinephone with Mobian as my main driver.

Error in your post, it's got 2GB of LPDDR3 RAM not 3GB (which is a weird number anyway)

You can load any type of linux based os, but the question is can you hack with it?