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The Paperweight Dilemma // Mobian's Blog (blog.mobian.org)
submitted 11 months ago by Shatur@lemmy.ml to c/linuxphones@lemmy.ml
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Not a good news for the original PP. I personally don't use Mobian and I just use megi's kernel, but I understand their concerns.

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[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The modem is the same and the SoC is the same as in the Pinebook Pro, which costs much less. The only actually better part in the PPP that justifies a slightly higher price is the back camera.

I think Pine64 tried to get in some imagined premium market with the PPP and the PineNote, and at least for the Note they admitted it was a total failure.

[–] awai@fosstodon.org 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

@poVoq @Shatur The PBP doesn't include a modem (so no LTE antennas), has only 1 (cheap) camera, bigger display/form factor, no touchscreen, smaller eMMC, cheaper audio codec...

Also, the PPP's display is way better (and therefore costly) in both contrast and color-correctness to the OG PP one.

Comparing the PPP & PBP prices based only on the fact they use the same SoC really doesn't make any sense unless you look at *all* the differences, and even then, it's dubious...

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 1 points 11 months ago

Obviously I am comparing both the PP and the PBP with the PPP. The two cheaper devices show that it would have been perfectly possible to make a sub 300$ device that is a functional equivalent of the PPP.

More colors on a tiny low resolution mobile screen is another one of these useless premium features they added to justify the massive price hike.