Season 2 - Episode 4: Pine Fresh

It's pine time! One *awesome* interview with Lukasz from Pine64 about the company and their upcoming laptop, phone and tablet. This sucker is nuclear!

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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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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.