This $200 phone can do ANYTHING!!! - Pine64 Pinephone

Since we did the Librem Linux Smartphone, we were FLOODED with comments asking to do the Pinephone. Well, here it is, and of course, we had to get Anthony to check it out.

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[askopte]

Turn on the phone 1st time
Immediately throw you to terminal
Now that's genuine *Linux* experience

[fooferbob]

If I ever develop a product I will make the box super difficult to get open. Then, I will include instructions on how to open the box inside the box!

[ShortCircuit]

Sorry about the issue regarding the flicker, we're investigating! - Jono

[npswm]

Update!

PINE64 switched off of using Mobian as its primary and now uses Manjaro with Plasma Mobile as the DE. And it works great now.

[hariranormal]

Gentoo on phone:

featuring:
- the experience of pain - now portable
- compiling a single package using 8 phones and distcc
- waiting
- recompiling kernel and then wondering how it went wrong
- reading manuals 24/7 using a different phone

all of this and more
for the admireable price of your sanity

[churrosgratis]

9:35
Linus on the test video: "is breathtaking"
Anthony, the loving guy: "you're breathtaking"

[kidlzr]

There should be a custom “Linux Tech Tips” into for Linux deep dives

[novhck]

Anthony seemed a bit surprised to see the last dipswitch for the headphone jack. It actually doesn't disable the port but switches between audio and hardware UART mode. It can be used to debug the phone with a 3.5mm to USB cable.

[amateurwizard]

I can't believe all 7 Librem phone owners disliked this

[Alpeyy]

Anthony...the God of Linux is back once again to bless us

[koxukoshu]

Having phones where you could remove the back makes me feel young again

[BradenAlbrecht]

I think privacy/security is what this is for and I'm so glad it exists. I can see more like this becoming a thing as time goes on.

[ahmadeid]

we really need a "Learn linux with anthony" series

[atlys]

Nearly 15 uninterrupted minutes of Anthony being Anthony, also there's a device review. 👌👌👌

[indianboy]

I would personally love to see more stuff like this. Just a LITTLE bit more processing power and it's gold.

[novhck]

The development continues and the Pinephone operating systems are much faster these days. There is still a lot of space for improvement though and hopefully the whole ecosystem will be ready once Pinephone 2 hits the market. I kinda don't expect Pinephone 1 to ever come out of the beta stage.

[matekovacs]

Do you know what the coolest feature of the PinePhone is? The 6 golden pins under the back panel. They are called 'pogo pins', and they provide unsolicited access to the battery (giving the user the ability to expand the battery with a back cover mod), and a full I2C interface, enabling modders to create their custom back panels and add limitless functionality. There is already a fingerprint mod available, and someone did a thermal camera mod. It really is for the community who would like to fiddle with this stuff.

[ShaiyanHossain]

this phone is a throwback to when phones were actually designed with repairability in mind

[the_everything_ops]

Remind me of the struggle of old Linux in Desktop in 2000s, but be patient 5 years from now you can have decent full linux experience in Smartphone.

[kobegarcia]

I
really liked this video. The fact that a $200 smartphone can do a lot of things
in 2021 is not as surprising. But its so cool too see that technology is become
a bit more cheaper and advanced.