PinePhone Pro [GNU/Linux smartphone] has been discontinued

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.

> 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/

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