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PinePhone Pro [GNU/Linux smartphone] has been discontinued

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172 points fsflover | 4 comments | 28 Aug 25 16:05 UTC | HN request time: 0.398s | source
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ge96 ◴[28 Aug 25 16:22 UTC] No.45054041[source]▶
Kind of sad, I had both PP and PPP

When they were "new" the tech was old already and then the lack of drivers for the camera for example which I can't talk, I'm not a driver developer. I thought it would make me get into developing drivers but I never did.

Or writing Qt/C++ apps vs. cross platform/web that I was used to.

For some reason I was obsessed with the thought of Dex/your phone being a computer if connected to a big monitor, it was cool using VS Code on the PPP but there would be problems. The external monitor I think was capped to 1920x1080 (if connected to a 1440P display a huge chunk was just static)

I had my fun with it

I was interested in the Pine 64 eInk tablet but that seemed to not be in stock at the time. I had the Remarkable 2 at one point, I want to get it again.

edit: looks like the PineNote is in stock right now

my consumer brain is getting tickled, might get a PineNote, what I liked about the RM2 is I didn't have to charge it for like a month was crazy, unfortunately PineNote doesn't seem to have that, and no tilt support on pen but ehhh. I don't know if RM forces you to have a subscription now, I didn't have it on mine when I got it in like 2022.

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1. jolmg ◴[28 Aug 25 18:24 UTC] No.45055323[source]▶
> The external monitor I think was capped to 1920x1080 (if connected to a 1440P display a huge chunk was just static)

That happened to me with the PP, but I can reliably use a 1440P monitor with the PPP. Not sure if it's the phone, or the fact that I added a power cord to the phone while it was connected. I can't remember if I did that with the PP.

EDIT: Scratch that. It's because I used the official dock with the PP, and for the PPP I used one I got on Amazon.

The official dock is docked (:P) to 1080P.[1]

I wonder how it happened that the de-facto standard here is for the protocol going over USB-C to be DisplayPort, but for the hardware connection to be HDMI, and so leading to docks needed to be spec'ed to the resolution you want instead of being passive.

[1] https://pine64.com/product/pinephone-pro-usb-c-docking-bar/

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2. zorgmonkey ◴[28 Aug 25 18:38 UTC] No.45055477[source]▶
The answer is boring and annoying, they almost certainly want it to work with TVs and cheap monitors both of which commonly only have HDMI inputs. It has been my experience that you typically have to pay more for a USB-C dock with displayport outputs, even though they don't have the chip just cause of economies of scale.
3. ge96 ◴[28 Aug 25 19:13 UTC] No.45055884[source]▶
To be clear when I say 1440p I mean 3840x1440 which might be obvious

I was using random USB-C to HDMI/usb that I bought on Amazon, I primarily used Mobian

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4. jolmg ◴[28 Aug 25 19:27 UTC] No.45056052[source]▶
I meant 2560×1440. Checking online, I didn't realize there were so many different 1440p resolutions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1440p

Random adapters on Amazon specify 4K though, so I would've thought they'd work for you too.