The PinePhone Pro is a

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developed by

Hong Kong Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the wor ...

–based

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Pine64 Pine Store Limited, Trade_name, doing business as Pine64 (styled as PINE64), is a Hong Kong-based organization that designs, manufactures, and sells single-board computers, notebook computers, as well as smartwatch/smartphones. Its name was insp ...

. The phone is the successor to the

PinePhone The PinePhone is a smartphone developed by Hong Kong–based computer manufacturer Pine64, designed to provide users with full control over the device. This is achieved through the utilization of mainline Linux-based mobile operating systems, ass ...

released in 2020. The default operating system is

Sailfish OS Sailfish OS is a paid Linux-based operating system based on free software, and open source projects such as Mer as well as including a closed source UI. The project is being developed by the Finnish company Jolla. The OS first shipped wit ...

(previously Manjaro ARM, with

Plasma Mobile Plasma Mobile is a KDE Plasma, Plasma variant for smartphones. It is currently available for the PinePhone, and supported devices for postmarketOS such as the OnePlus 6. It is shipped by several Linux distributions, such as postmarketOS and Manj ...

as the

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). The device is a developer platform with open hardware specifications but with unfinished software. The target group of the device is

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developers who will develop the software. The device was first shipped to developers in December 2021, and in February 2022 devices were made available to consumers.

Hardware

The device is built on the Rockchip RK3399S

system on a chip A system on a chip (SoC) is an integrated circuit that combines most or all key components of a computer or Electronics, electronic system onto a single microchip. Typically, an SoC includes a central processing unit (CPU) with computer memory, ...

, which is a custom version of the stock RK3399, uniquely designed for the device. The processing power roughly compares to mid-range phones from 2016. The device has 4 GB of LPDDR4 ram, a 6-inch display, 13 MP

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IMX258 as the main camera, 8 MP

Omnivision OmniVision Technologies Inc. is an American subsidiary of Chinese semiconductor device and mixed-signal integrated circuit design house Will Semiconductor. The company designs and develops digital imaging products for use in mobile phones, lap ...

OV8858 as front camera and has a user-replaceable 3000 mAh Samsung J7-series battery. The phone has hardware kill switches for shutting down network connections, microphone, speaker, and cameras. The device has pogo pins for attachable backs compatible with the original PinePhone.

Software

The device ships with Sailfish OS (previously Manjaro ARM, with Plasma Mobile as the user interface), though users are free to switch to other operating systems. U-Boot is used as the default

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and it supports booting from an

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. The bootloader can be replaced, as there are alternatives, such as Tow-boot. The main image sensor driver has been added to the mainline kernel by Sony. Modem firmware of the Quectel EG25-G is based on a

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