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Pinephone

The Pinephone

Just recently I bought the PINEPHONE Beta Edition with Convergence Package from Pine64 because I wanted to try it out and see how well a full Linux OS gets handled by mobile hardware running an ARM Processor.

Included with Package

  1. Pinephone

Pinephone image from store page
(Picture was taken from the store page)

  1. Type-C dock Pinephone type-c dock
    (Picture was taken from the store page)

Specs

PinePhone
CPU Allwinner A64 Quad Core SoC
GPU Mali 400 MP2 GPU
Screen 5.95″ LCD 1440×720, 18:9 aspect ratio (hardened glass)
RAM 3 GB LPDDR3
Storage 32 GB eMMC
OS Manjaro ARM with Plasma Mobile (pre-installed)

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My experience with it

NOTE : I installed Arch Linux ARM with plasma mobile via this guide.

As I had thought going into this, linux running on this hardware is frightfully slow. At the worst of times it may freeze and may just forcefully reset.

The UI is also suprisingly nice, aside from the occasional bugs.

Closing Remarks

As I learn more about the phone/do more with the phone I will update this accordingly. I'm quite excited to learn what else I can do with the phone, as well as what projects/systems I can make for it.