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Why did PinePhone fail? (lemmy.world)
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OQB: @weirdo_from_space@sh.itjust.works

Six years ago the entire Linux enthusiast space was super excited for the PinePhone, then everything fell apart. What went wrong? Was PINE64's favoritism towards Manjaro the sole issue or were there other problems?

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[–] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I remember seeing news about it, reading the specs, and immediately losing interest.

2GB RAM with 32GB of slow eMMC storage, Wifi 4 (2.4ghz only too), Bluetooth 4.0, not great 5MP camera, and a 720×1440 IPS screen were fine in 2010, but this is a device released in 2020.

The software aspect also turned me off, reading about so many things that were in progress or 'sort of working'.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    reading about so many things that were in progress or ‘sort of working’.

    I don't think that's specifically a Linux phone issue as much as developing for mobile devices. This is kind of thing I've always seen with custom ROMs.

    For example, my old Moto G5s Plus is running PixelExperience 11 (now discontinued), and it is mostly working, except for secondary camera and encryption. There's often things that don't quite work in these cases.

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