Season 2 - Episode 4: Pine Fresh

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Interview

In this episode we welcome Lukasz, the community manager from Pine64, to have a chat about the company and their exciting new products.

The Pinebook Pro, PineTab and PinePhone 📱were first announced at FOSDEM 2019. The company later released a forum post with more information. This post also describes other upcoming products, like the Roshambo retro gaming console 🎮 and the CUBE open source IP camera 📽. - TL Lim of Cloud Media and company started Pine64 in 2015. - Linux phone distros: - ubports - Plasma Mobile - Maemo Leste - postmarketOS

• Project Ara
• sunxi community of kernel developers
• Mr FixIt the distro builder

Some of the specs:

Pinebook Pro iteration on the current Pinebook

• 14" 1080p IPS LCD panel
• 64/128GB of eMMC storage (128 default for Pine64 Forum members)
• Black magnesium alloy body 💻
• Digital video output via USB-C up to 4K60hz, USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 ports
• 4GB of LPDDR4 RAM
• Rockchip RK3399 ; big.LITTLE Hexacore A72/A53 SOC
• PCIe x4 that can take a m.2 NVMe SSD using an optional adapter
• Target Price: $199

The PinePhone (These are the dev kit specs, some of them are subject to change in the actual phone)

• Mockups on Twitter.
• USB C for data and charging
• Privacy (hardware) switches for BT/WiFi, LTE, cameras, speaker
• 2mpx and 5mpx front / back cameras 📷
• 1440x720 IPS screen
• SOPine module: Allwinner A64 with 2GB of LPDDR3 RAM
• Targeted price point for the phone: $149

The PineTab

• 16GB of eMMC
• 2GB of LPDDR3 RAM
• 720p IPS 10" LCD (MiPi)
• Magnetically attached keyboard + trackpad ⌨️
• Target price for PineTab + keyboard: $99 ($79 for standalone PineTab)

Pine64 contacts

• Twitter
• their forums
• our Telegram
• Mastodon
• Facebook

Other stuff:

• Beyond the Curve, a documentary about Flat Earthers 🌍😜
• The Guinness Storehouse 🍻
• Newgrange
• Jameson Distillery
• NextcloudPi

Events

• FOSSTalk Live on 8th June in London.🍺
• OGGcamp on 19th and 20th October in Manchester.😍

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Disclaimer

May contain mature references

Attribution

The music for this podcast was sampled from Bust This Bust That - Professor Kliq which was released under the CC BY NC SA License.