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PinePhone KDE Community Edition (CE) is available for pre-order now. This PinePhone edition comes with a customized version of Plasma Mobile based on Manjaro Linux. Like the previous ones, this community edition will be delivered in a custom presentation box designed by the Plasma Mobile team, and the PinePhone itself will have the KDE logo
The UBports Foundation announced it’s time to ask for help in testing Ubuntu Touch OTA-14! The new update is expected to be released on Wednesday, November 4, 2020. Let’s see what’s new in this release. What’s new? The OTA-14 focuses on fixing issues affecting Android 9 devices, which is significant for the upcoming Volla phones.
The October update published by PINE64 brought a lot of news. First of all, a physical keyboard, NFC and wireless charging. Qi wireless charging and NFC to PinePhone Pine64 plans to add functionality to the phone with custom rear cases that will communicate with the phone via pogo pins. The first two cases will introduce
The Manjaro ARM project is proud to announce our first BETA release for the PinePhone running Phosh! This image are running the 5.7 kernel from gitlab.com/pine64-org/linux, which is designed for the PinePhone. Features: Firefox uses a dedicated configuration and plays videos on Youtube pretty well Camera app with access to back and front camera, including
Marcos Costales, developer of uNav, has released update 3.7. uNav is simple & easy GPS navigator for Ubuntu Touch devices. As Marcos Costales wrote on Twitter: Finally, after 3 months of work and releases, uNav 3 is where I wanted! Marcos Costales Changelog: Filter radars on same side of road. Show speed in navigation panel.
The Plasma Mobile team presented the September updates on their blog. This month’s update includes various improvements and bug fixes to file dialogs, the virtual keyboard, the lock screen, various applications, and updates from KDE’s annual conference, Akademy. Virtual Keyboard Plasma Mobile changed the virtual keyboard to maliit2. Due to this change, several changes have
Pine64 has announced that they plan to create PineCom: a small privacy-oriented communication device that is software compatible with the PinePhone phone. Pine64 invites everyone to brainstorm on the PineCom’s features. There is an ongoing discussion on the pine64 forum on the following topics: Do we need both a front and back camera on the
The Fedora Mobility Team is back after ten years of inactivity. Current efforts are focusing on the Pine64 Pinephone. The Fedora Mobility group was announced on October 4th, 2010. Then the initiative kind of died and everyone forgot about it. Kevin Fenzi made this announcement on Friday: I’d like to announce the revival of the
a-wai, the lead developer of Mobian (Debian for mobile) has released a project update. Amongst many pieces of information, one catches our attention: “(…) we expect we’ll be able to release our first stable version within a month, if everything goes well.” Mobian: status update 2020-10-05 The kernel was upgraded to version 5.8 and HDMI
OTA-13 for Ubuntu Touch has been released. UBports (the organization developing this mobile system) has already announced its 13th stable system update. OTA-13 will be available for the following supported Ubuntu Touch devices next week: * LG Nexus 5* OnePlus One* FairPhone 2* LG Nexus 4* BQ E5 HD Ubuntu Edition* BQ E4.5 Ubuntu Edition*
Manjaro ARM Beta17 with Phosh for PinePhone released. Most Gnome applications got updated to 40.5. This image is running the 5.14 kernel from Megi, which is designed for the PinePhone. Features: Firefox uses a dedicated configuration and plays videos on Youtube pretty well Camera app with access to back and front camera, including autofocus Auto-Rotate
Manjaro developers announced a package update in the stable branch of their system for ARM devices. Of the major updates, Firefox came out in version 93, Qt 6.2, Uboot packages updated to 2021.10, KDE Gear updated to 21.08.2 and KDE Frameworks updated to 5.87. Some highlights: Most of our kernels got updated QT 6 got
Now everything is clear – PinePhone Pro will be available soon. It’s faster and more efficient than its predecessor, the PinePhone, which Pine64 says will not disappear from the store. A few days ago, Pine64 posted a video that only showed that a new device would probably be coming soon. pic.twitter.com/jHBni6cuvF— PINE64 (@thepine64) October 8,
Wireless charging and fingerprint reading cases are ready but for PinePhone keyboard we will need to wait a bit more time. Lately, PinePhone keyboard has been through some last minute software changing. Unfortunatly, due to last minute changes made to the firmware, the factory test software (a custom build of postmarketOS by Martijn Braam) no
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