For the most part, if you’re looking for a smartphone, you have two choices; Android or iOS. The iPhone is a single device tightly controlled by Apple. Google’s Android platform offers greater selection and a wider range of prices. However, PINE64, a manufacturer of Linux-based hardware, produce the PinePhone. The device is already available in
You can’t run fully open versions of Linux on an Apple iPhone or even an Android device, despite the latter running Linux underneath. So Pine Microsystems has created the PinePhone, a budget priced smartphone capable of running mobile versions of traditional “desktop” Linux. Several mobile interfaces for Linux support the PinePhone. That’s exciting, but it
