Mobian Community Edition (CE) PinePhone is available for pre-order in the Pine Store
Yesterday we mentioned that Mobian will be the new OS in PinePhone CE. Now the Mobian Community Edition (CE) PinePhones are now available for pre-order in the Pine Store.
Here you can order the Mobian Community Edition (CE) PinePhone:
https://pine64.com/product-category/smartphones/
This community edition will ship in a custom presentation box designed by Mobian’s team, and the PinePhone itself will feature a Debian swirl logo on the back-cover (see renders for reference).
This PinePhone CE will be available in two hardware configurations:
Both configurations of the Mobian CE PinePhones feature rev. 1.2b of the PCBA. The $199 hardware variant, called convergence package, also includes a USB-C dock equipped with 10/100 Ethernet, 2x USB type A ports, HDMI digital video output and power-in via USB-C.
What can we expect from PinePhone Mobian Community Edition?
PinePhone Mobian Community Edition will include an installer that will allow you to choose a user password and enable full disk encryption.
PinePhone with Mobian will have all the basic functionality of the phone: including voice calls, SMS, mobile broadband, Wi-Fi, front and rear cameras.
Mobian ships with Phosh, a mobile-oriented desktop environment based on GNOME technology, initially developed by Purism for their Librem 5 smartphone.
https://blog.mobian-project.org/posts/2021/01/15/mobian-community-edition/
Mobian’s developers caution that the software is still largely in progress and evolving almost daily. It is important that you update your phone immediately after receiving it.
Mobian wiki page: https://wiki.mobian-project.org/
Debian wiki page: https://wiki.debian.org/Mobian
IRC channel: #mobian on OFTC
Matrix room: https://app.element.io/#/room/#mobian:matrix.org
Telegram group: https://t.me/mobian_project
Pine64 will donate $ 10 to the Mobian project for each device sold. The Mobian developers will return a significant portion to the Debian project.
