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PinePhone Pro [GNU/Linux smartphone] has been discontinued

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172 points fsflover | 1 comments | 28 Aug 25 16:05 UTC | HN request time: 0.206s | source
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ethagnawl ◴[28 Aug 25 16:25 UTC] No.45054074[source]▶
This is a bummer. If there was ever a time this sort of device was needed, it's now / in the near future when Google (probably) starts requiring all Android apps to be signed by approved developers and further locks down the Android platform.

I kind of regret not buying one of these instead of a Pixel 7 but, unfortunately, I'm pretty tethered to the Android ecosystem at the moment.

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nrdgrrrl ◴[28 Aug 25 19:07 UTC] No.45055813[source]▶
You say that, but they're discontinuing it because they didn't sell enough of them. It may be the device we need, but it's not the device we're buying.
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1. NoboruWataya ◴[28 Aug 25 19:33 UTC] No.45056123[source]▶
I never had a PinePhone Pro but I did buy an earlier model and the user experience was very far off what we have come to expect from modern phones. I'm sure the Pro was better but still probably not that close to an Android or Apple phone. That's not a sleight on the company at all, they faced some very high barriers and I respect what they did. But I don't think this is entirely on consumers for not putting their money where their mouth is. It's just yet another example that it's really hard to create something (in the phone space, at least) that is affordable, open and highly functional.