[CameronNemo]

That is the limit for the rk3399 SoC. I'm surprised they did not wait for the rk3588, or just use a Mediatek Dimensity SoC.

If you are based in Europe, you may be interested in the Fairphone 4, which has 6 or 8 GB of RAM.

[bluGill]

Pine64 has other CPUs they can work with, but they are not well supported yet. I wouldn't be surprised to see another phone rev with a much better CPU in the future once the Quarts-64 line starts working well. Right now the people who can do that work already have plenty of hardware to work with, while people who can do phone work really want a somewhat faster CPU now.

[opan]

MediaTek is horribly hostile to free software and would be a terrible fit in something like this. MediaTek is the reason the Gemini PDA couldn't do what the PinePhone is doing despite making some similar claims.

As for not waiting for a newer Rockchip part, it sounds like they are making it clear this is not a second generation PinePhone, just a more powerful version of what we already had. There will likely be a proper second generation with more major changes later on.

[CameronNemo]

I'd be interested to learn more about Mediatek's hostility. I only mention them because I did not see any red flags on their SoC specifications.

[my123]

MediaTek puts the responsibility of releasing the downstream kernel tree source code on the Android OEMs.

And some of those don’t comply with that.

(but otherwise, they are upstreaming support for their SoCs nowadays anyway)