The Linux smartphone PinePhone is available for order.

Announced about the start of delivery to all those interested in the first limited batch of the smartphone. PinePhone (Braveheart Edition), developed by the Pine64 community (note: the first batch is already sold out). The start of widespread mass production is scheduled for March 2020. As initially stated, the price of the smartphone is $150. The device is aimed at enthusiasts who are tired of Android and want to have a fully controllable and secure environment based on alternative open Linux platforms.

The hardware is designed for interchangeable components — most modules are not soldered but connected via detachable ribbons, allowing, for example, to replace the default mediocre camera with a higher-quality one if desired. It is claimed that the phone can be fully disassembled in 5 minutes.

For the PinePhone boot images are being developed based on Postmarket OS with KDE Plasma Mobile UBPorts, (Ubuntu Touch), Maemo Leste Manjaro, LuneOS, Nemo Mobile, and partially open platform Sailfish . Work is underway to prepare builds withNixOS . By default, a trimmed version of postmarketOS is preinstalled, designed for testing basic subsystems. The software environment can be loaded directly from the SD card without the need to carry out a firmware update.The device is built on a quad-core ARM Allwinner A64 SoC with a Mali 400 MP2 GPU, equipped with 2GB of RAM, a 5.95-inch screen (1440×720 IPS), Micro SD (with support for booting from the SD card), 16GB eMMC (internal), a USB-C port with USB Host and a combined video output for connecting a monitor, Wi-Fi 802.11/b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0 (A2DP), GPS, GPS-A, GLONASS, two cameras (2 and 5Mpx), a 3000mAh battery, hardware-disconnectable components with LTE/GNSS, Wi-Fi, a microphone, and speakers.

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Source: opennet.ru