The PinePhone will keep on catering to this crowd for the foreseeable future. Will you keep on producing and selling the original PinePhone?Ībsolutely! There are many people who either need a less expensive option or simply aren’t ready to make the commitment to switch to a Linux smartphone just yet. Thermal dissipation is another important consideration, as the higher heat output may not be trivial to overcome in the original PinePhone’s chassis.
Software enablement would also be required to drive the original PinePhone’s components (such as the LCD) using the PinePhone Pro’s mainboard. For instance, the PinePhone Pro’s cameras will not fit into the PinePhone chassis and are electrically incompatible with the PinePhone’s mainboard. While the PinePhone Pro’s mainboard will fit the PinePhone, the chassis, IPS display panel, cameras, the daughterboard, and thermal dissipation systems are all different.
AMPAK AP6255 WiFi 11ac + Bluetooth V4.1.Quectel EG25-G – global GSM and CDMA bands.8MP OmniVision OV8858 front-facing camera.13MP Sony IMX258 main camera with Gorilla Glass 4™ protective layer.6″ 1440 x 720 in-cell IPS with Gorilla Glass 4™.Optional micro SD card (SDXC up-to 2TB).Rockchip RK3399S 64bit SoC – 2x A72 and 4x A53 CPU cores 1.5GHz.We think you’ll be pleased with the end-result. The coating on the back of the PinePhone Pro has been given a premium feel and engineered to minimize oily fingerprints. Proportions of the original design were altered to accommodate the new display and to allow for improved heat dissipation. The chassis is slightly thicker (~2mm) than the original PinePhone’s. The camera is covered by Corning Gorilla Glass 4™ and protected by an elevated bezel, similar to the one found on the original PinePhone. The PinePhone Pro features a vibrant in-cell IPS display covered with Corning Gorilla Glass 4™ with an oleophobic coating, offering superior scratch resistance and image clarity. The keyboard, PineDio LoRa, fingerprint reader and wireless charging cases will all work with the PinePhone Pro. The PinePhone Pro uses the same pogo-pin systems and back cover attachment as the original PinePhone, making it compatible with all existing add-ons. We wanted the PinePhone Pro to reflect its status as a pro-grade device while maintaining perfect compatibility with all existing PinePhone peripherals. Hardware privacy dip switches for the cameras, the microphone, WiFi & BT, headphone jack (enabling UART) and the LTE modem (including GPS) are accessible under the back cover, just as on the original PinePhone.
Rockchip’s team was also instrumental in enabling the PinePhone Pro’s suspend state, which allows the smartphone to receive calls and SMS messages while preserving battery. The result of this cooperation is the RK3399S – a RK3399 variant made specifically for the PinePhone Pro. We worked closely with Rockchip’s engineering team to fine-tune the SoC’s performance so that it meets the necessary thermal and battery-consumption envelopes.
It features a high-fidelity 13MP main camera sensor and a 5MP front-facing camera. It is powered by a Rockchip hexa-core SoC operating at 1.5GHz, and ships paired with 4GB of dual-channel LPDDR4 RAM as well as 128GB of internal eMMC flash storage. The PinePhone Pro is the end result of this journey. Over the past two years we painstakingly collected and analyzed your feedback and explored all avenues for hardware improvements. We learned a lot from working on the original PinePhone.