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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: 0.202s | source
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mixmastamyk ◴[28 Aug 25 16:29 UTC] No.45054112[source]▶
Not surprising. These phones were out of date when they debuted and not updated, in like five years?

I played with one for a bit but then mobian trixie updates bricked it twice and I gave up. Only wanted it to be on par with my old iPhone 6s, but it never achieved that.

Star labs makes a great Linux tablet, the starlite, so it is near possible to make a decent floss phone these days.

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bee_rider ◴[28 Aug 25 17:10 UTC] No.45054560[source]▶
Oh wow, that Star lab tablet looks great.

For quite a while I used an iPad+NUC, which was perfect and I loved it, except it could only really run terminal programs (via ssh) or iOS programs nicely. VNC kinda works but not well.

Eventually I switched to a folding convertible laptop, but it is a significant downgrade in terms of form-factor. Nice to know that exists, hopefully they’ll stick around until I’m ready to turn this thing into e-waste…

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1. mixmastamyk ◴[28 Aug 25 20:00 UTC] No.45056393[source]▶
Yes, though haven't used it as a convertible yet. I usually use tablets as my home movie machine since we don't have a proper TV. At this, the Starlite with Phosh and recent Fedora/firmware updates is fantastic. Freetube, Netflix and Kanopy on Firefox via widevine, PBS, and homegrown .mkv's are more than I have time to watch.

On the go a Framework 13 is fantastic, tall screen, light and powerful. Only waiting on coreboot and ECC RAM.