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...which isn't really surprising considering that it's more powerful and that this price pays for software development that both devices utilize.
Even so could they not have added more than 3GB of RAM? For a phone costing $800 that's a bit low and RAM is really cheap.
I couldn't find a support guarantee either. They have a blog post about they they promise to support it for a long time, but don't say how long.
This phone has been in the works for a long time. 3GB was a decent amount of RAM when they first announced it, same with the screen/storage/etc.
Given that it runs Linux, for most of the things you'd probably use it for 3GB will likely be more than plenty.
> Given that it runs Linux, for most of the things you'd probably use it for 3GB will likely be more than plenty.
Does it come with a command-line interface and vi or emacs keybindings?
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...which isn't really surprising considering that it's more powerful and that this price pays for software development that both devices utilize.
Re:PinePhone competitor (Score:2)
Even so could they not have added more than 3GB of RAM? For a phone costing $800 that's a bit low and RAM is really cheap.
I couldn't find a support guarantee either. They have a blog post about they they promise to support it for a long time, but don't say how long.
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This phone has been in the works for a long time. 3GB was a decent amount of RAM when they first announced it, same with the screen/storage/etc.
Given that it runs Linux, for most of the things you'd probably use it for 3GB will likely be more than plenty.
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> Given that it runs Linux, for most of the things you'd probably use it for 3GB will likely be more than plenty.
Does it come with a command-line interface and vi or emacs keybindings?