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by curtis3389 431 days ago
Pine64 updated the PinePhone with the PinePhone Pro.
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It was more like making the PinePhone catch up to Librem 5. I'm writing this on my L5 and I still have no prospects if I wanted to upgrade.
Guess I thought of that one as more like a "fix," since the first one was not fit for purpose. Still not good enough, needs spec bump and driver support.
I was looking at potential linux phones the other day, postmarketOS has ports for phones as new as fairphone 4 and OnePlus 6. They don't have any phones with decent camera support though.

https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices

Hmm, I saw the fairphone 5 on another page and the hardware support is not substantially worse.

Install page says you need fairphone.com to give you permission to unlock. :-/

yeah most android phones do, it has to do with the modem I think
>driver support

It's Pine64, their whole business model is «Here's the hardware, you're on your own now».

Not a good business model if they can’t afford to rev the hardware.