November Community Update: KDE PinePhone Community Edition & a peek into the future

Video by @PizzaLovingNerd

In this update we’re happy to announce the next Community Edition of the PinePhone, which will ship with KDE Plasma Mobile. We will also take a look at the Pinebook Pro dock and talk a bit about future hardware.

This is the video version of the Pine64 November community update blog post. This video should give you the synopsis of the community update, but if you want all the details than check out the original post.

Original post:

Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:15 Housekeeping
1:28 Nutcracker
2:31 Let's talk about the future
3:35 PinePhone
5:32 Pinebook Pro
6:23 Pinecil
6:35 SOEdge
7:13 PineTime
7:46 PineCube
8:10 Outro

[____-gymq]

"100% foss wifi and bluetooth"
I'm sold. I really hope the baseband makes it into open source too.

[V-dt]

i have so much respect for you guys that i dont even know how to tell

[bitbooger]

This new video community update on the YouTube channel is totally amazing. I also find it really really cool that PizzaLovingNerd is doing the talking. Great job guys! The Pine64 community just rocks!!

[SIGSEGV]

Woah good going PizzaLovingNerd you're on the offical channel now!

[FunFreakeyy]

Great Video!
One little bug: link to the blog post is from october.

[TroyYounts]

Amazing work! I can hardly stand the wait!

[anthonyfmoss]

Please would you do a short video on how to swap in the new motherboard for those of us with Braveheart Pinephones. That would be much appreciated. Thanks.

[DanielWood]

Love the news video. Really happy to see this. Thank you.

[edd]

It would be awesome to have a pine time with an e-ink screen

[jacobdavidcunningham]

2:53 lol "I'm sorry little one"
The 8GB is what's up... provided all the carrier issues and sms/phone stuff is more robust I'm down for this as a next phone. (have Moto e5 3gb now not really flagship)
Would be curious what carriers I can use eg. Boost mobile.
When using as desktop would be great to toggle "headless" mode somehow to save some resources on GUI/go for lower resource eg. i3-wm

[vladdx]

Still only quad-core in the next gen? Cmon we should at least reach parity in performance with low-end Android phones which are equiped with 6-8 cores

[koenigsbier]

Damn I'd love having 8GB of RAM on my Pinebook Pro

[robertbacklund]

I have viewed a few other videos about the Pine phone and so far from what I have seen most have had very limited success with this device being able to make and receive LTE phone calls. Has this changed? It appears to me that if you really need a functional phone we are still forced to purchase an android phone.

[vildavedo]

I see new better products on the market. Anyway, RK3566A will be next SoC in the PinePhone?

[ingusmant]

Isn't discord really bad for privacy tho?

[LysanderLH]

Okay. I have no idea what you’re discussing here. Will this phone work without me needing a nuke proof basement full of NASA gear?

[heinrichboeker]

I have bought two new pinephones beta edition with 3 GB RAM and 32 GB EMMC
Neither one seems to recognice the SCCard nor do they boot from that SDCard as they should according to documentation, not with JumpDrive or the multiboot image nor withn the Mobian image,
they just ignore the SDCard.
Using the USB-C drive the SDCards with adapter are recognized bute the system won't boot from that drive.
I have created the bootable SCCards on Debian using dd .
Any hint what might be wrong here ?

[finnk]

4:27 Pine64 makes their products modular and repairable???
That's such a big deal with today's phones! Advertise sustainability (since you can keep one pinephone for years) and people will flock to your platform.

[sayanth]

I need powerfull hardware on pinephone, ( atleast 48MP camera, octa core 2.0 ghz SoC, 4 gb of ram etc. )

[squiddstv]

again... it's not 60hz if it maxes out at 59.894 LIES! :D