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59-460: 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, assembly of the phone using screws, and facilitating simplified disassembly for repairs and upgrades. The 2G-4GLTE modem, GPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and both cameras can be physically switched off. The PinePhone ships with
118-496: A CLI and a graphical installer. The rolling release model means that users do not need to upgrade/reinstall the whole system to keep it all up-to-date inline with the latest release. Package management is handled by Pacman via the command line (terminal) and via front-end GUI package manager tools like the pre-installed Pamac. It can be configured as either a stable system (default) or bleeding edge , in line with Arch. The repositories are managed with their own tool, BoxIt, which
177-422: A USB-C dock known as a "docking bar". The docking bar is capable of delivering power to the phone via USB-C power-in (3 A 5 V), outputting digital video via HDMI , and has 10/100 Mbit/s Ethernet connectivity and two USB 2.0 ports (for example, external storage, mouse and keyboard). In February 2021, Pine64 announced the end of community edition devices, and that the default operating system for
236-582: A USB-C port with USB 2.0 that supports DisplayPort alt-mode. The 3000 mAh battery supports 15 W fast charging and is easily replaced without tools. It uses the same form factor as a Galaxy J7 battery to make it easier to find replacement batteries. Linux distributions configure its LPDDR 3 DRAM at clock rates that vary between 552 and 624 MHz. Like the Librem 5, the PinePhone uses separate cellular baseband and Wi-Fi/Bluetooth chips. Together with
295-466: A branding on the back cover and shipped with a custom box designed by the partnered artists. The "Mobian" community edition in February 2021 was the last to be offered. Initially, the PinePhone was only available in one hardware configuration. The enhanced "Convergence Package" was introduced with the postmarketOS community edition announcement, featuring increased RAM , additional eMMC storage, and
354-520: A choice of frontends; Pamac ( GTK ) for Xfce desktop and Octopi ( Qt ) for its Openbox edition; MHWD (Manjaro Hardware Detection, for detection of free & proprietary video drivers); and Manjaro Settings Manager (for system-wide settings, user management, and graphics driver installation and management). GNOME Shell support was dropped with the release of version 0.8.3 in 2012. However, efforts within Arch Linux made it possible to restart
413-463: A common A64 platform with the PineTab tablet and Pine A64 boards is meant to encourage tinkerers to create mods and DIY projects based on the PinePhone. The original PinePhone used an Allwinner A64 processor, which has four Cortex-A53 cores clocked at 1.152 GHz and a Mali-400 MP2 GPU. Its frame and case cover are made of plastic. It has a 5-megapixel back camera and a 2-megapixel front camera, and
472-486: A division to design products for mobile devices in 2004. Seven years later, it took orders for more than 500 million mobile system-on-chip units per annum, including products for feature phones and smart devices. By providing extensive system engineering assistance, the company allowed many smaller companies and new entrants to enter a mobile phone market that had previously been dominated by large, often vertically integrated corporations that had long been broadly entrenched in
531-547: A global producer of digital signal processing products based in Linköping, Sweden. Coresonic became a wholly owned subsidiary of MediaTek in Europe. On June 22, 2012, MediaTek announced it would acquire a rival Taiwanese chipset designer MStar Semiconductor Inc. , which held a strong market share position in digital television chips. The initial phase of the deal saw MediaTek taking a 48 percent stake, with an option to purchase
590-543: A partnership to bring 5G to PCs in 2021. MediaTek overtook Qualcomm as the largest vendor of smartphone chipsets in the world in the third quarter of 2020, mainly due to significant growth in the Indian and Latin American markets. In May 2023, the company announced a new collaboration with Nvidia , using Dimensity to power advanced vehicle infotainment systems for automakers. In 2005, MediaTek acquired Inprocomm ,
649-689: A record of 37% in chip shipments. The MT8135 system-on-chip (SoC) for tablets announced in July 2013 was the industry's first chip to implement the new ARM big.LITTLE technology for heterogeneous multi-processing . A variant of the MT8135 was used by Amazon in its Kindle Fire HD tablet models. Also on November 20, 2013, MediaTek launched the MT6592 SoC, the first system-on-chip (SoC) with eight CPU cores which could be used simultaneously, in contrast to competing SoCs with eight physical cores of which only
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#1732797283880708-420: A reputation for being kept up to date from upstream resources. Others highlight the wide selection of official and community editions with different desktop environments. Manjaro was first released on 10 July 2011. By mid 2013, it was in the beta stage, though key elements of the final system had all been implemented, including a GUI installer (then an Antergos installer fork); a package manager (Pacman) with
767-427: A subset could be active at any given time. The "True Octa-Core" trademark was registered to emphasize the difference in marketing materials. On January 7, 2014, MediaTek announced the development of the world's first "multimode receiver" for wireless charging. In contrast to existing implementations it is compatible with both inductive and resonant charging. The resulting MT3188 wireless charging chip, certified by both
826-417: A test firmware, so the user could test their phone before installing their operating system of choice. In 2019, Pine64 partnered with existing and well established Linux-on-phone projects to launch a "Community Edition" campaign to incentivize software development for the device. Through this partnership, Pine64 donated $ 10 for each unit sold to the project maintainers. The community edition PinePhones featured
885-543: A wireless semiconductor design company producing 802.11a, b and a/g chips. On September 10, 2007, MediaTek announced its intention to buy Analog Devices cellular radio and baseband chipset divisions for US$ 350 million. The acquisition was finalised by January 11, 2008. On May 5, 2011, MediaTek acquired Ralink Technology Corporation , gaining products and expertise for Wi-Fi technology for mobile and non-mobile applications, as well as for wired DSL and Ethernet connectivity. On April 11, 2012, MediaTek acquired Coresonic,
944-484: Is a Taiwanese fabless semiconductor company that designs and manufactures a range of semiconductor products, providing chips for wireless communications , high-definition television , handheld mobile devices like smartphones and tablet computers , navigation systems, consumer multimedia products and digital subscriber line services as well as optical disc drives. Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Hsinchu ,
1003-560: Is designed like Git . Manjaro includes its own GUI settings manager where options like language, drivers , and kernel version can be configured. Certain commonly used Arch utilities, such as the Arch Build System (ABS), are available but have alternate implementations in Manjaro. Manjaro Architect is a CLI net installer that allows users to choose their own kernel versions, drivers, and desktop environments during
1062-412: Is designed to show full capabilities during benchmarks , that it is standard practice in the industry, and their device makers can choose to enable it or not. AnandTech pointed out Sports Mode was also being applied to benchmarks intended on measuring user experience benchmarks, providing otherwise untenable results, and that similar high performance modes from other device makers only turn on if chosen by
1121-515: Is developed mainly in Austria, France and Germany. Reviewers regard Manjaro Linux as a Linux distribution that is easy to set up and use, suitable for both beginners and experienced users. It is recommended as an easy and friendly way to install and maintain a cutting-edge Arch-derived distribution. Some reviewers find appeal in the large range of contributed software available in the AUR , which has
1180-693: Is not only easy to set up, but it has a friendly feel, complete with a nice graphical package manager, quality system installer and helpful welcome screen. Manjaro comes with lots of useful software and multimedia support." Smith did a review of Manjaro 17.0.2 Xfce in July 2017, and observed that it did "a lot of things well". He went on to extol some of the notable features as part of his conclusion: "I found Manjaro's Xfce edition to be very fast and unusually light on memory. The distribution worked smoothly and worked well with both my physical hardware and my virtual environment. I also enjoyed Manjaro's habit of telling me when new software (particularly new versions of
1239-600: The Manjaro Linux operating system using the Plasma Mobile graphic interface, although other distributions can be installed by users. Pine64 sold limited editions of the PinePhone, marketed towards developers and early adopters. The phone shipped worldwide with few geographical restrictions. The "Braveheart" edition, shipped in January 2020, was the first publicly available version of the phone, providing only
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#17327972838801298-644: The Nutcracker Challenge , in order to encourage the development of open-source wireless networking on the BL602 Wi-Fi and Bluetooth board. Some distributions support the use of USB Wi-Fi adapters that use open-source wireless firmware . Modem firmware of the Quectel EG25-G LTE board is based on a proprietary Android userspace , though an unofficial, mostly open-source version exists, replacing most proprietary components, except for
1357-614: The PinePhone Pro . In January 2022, Pine64 started accepting pre-orders of PinePhone Pro for deliveries by February 2022. The PinePhone is often compared to other phones shipping with non- Android Linux distributions , especially the Librem 5 , which released around the same time, and the WiFi-VoIP phone Necuno , which does not employ a cellular modem. Pine64 promises five years of production. The long production life and sharing
1416-899: The Power Matters Alliance and the Wireless Power Consortium was announced on February 24, 2014. On February 25, 2014, MediaTek announced the MT6732, and the MT6630. The SoC MT6630 supports 802.11a/b/g/n/ac WiFi, Bluetooth, ANT+, GPS and FM radio. On May 12, 2015, MediaTek announced their Helio X20, which features the industry's first tri-cluster CPU and the first CPU with a 10-core configuration. It also integrates MediaTek's first modem compatible with CDMA2000 . Tri-cluster CPUs were later adopted by HiSilicon ( Huawei ) in 2018, Qualcomm and Samsung Exynos SoCs in 2019. MediaTek collaborated with Google on
1475-518: The Taiwan Stock Exchange under the symbol TWSE : 2454 . A March 2021 report revealed that MediaTek had overtaken Qualcomm for the first time as the world's biggest smartphone chipset vendor in 2020, with 351.8 million chipsets shipped that year. The report attributed MediaTek's performance to its focus on less expensive smartphones. Market analyst firm Counterpoint predicted that MediaTek would maintain this lead in 2021, projecting
1534-678: The baseband firmware and the TrustZone kernel , which is signed by Qualcomm . The PinePhone relies completely on open-source operating systems developed by external communities, with only the flashing onto the phone done by Pine64 directly. Because these community OS projects were involved in the development of the PinePhone, it has been ported to 19 Linux distributions and seven graphical user interfaces, as of August 2021, such as Ubuntu Touch by UBports, postmarketOS , Mobian ( Debian ARM ), LuneOS , Nemo Mobile and Maemo Leste . An unofficial porting project, GloDroid, has ported Android 11 to
1593-520: The hardware kill switches , this results in larger printed circuit boards (PCBs) and less energy efficiency compared to the mass-produced Android phone that has an integrated System on a Chip , such as the Snapdragon , Helio or Exynos . The PinePhone is thinner at 9.2 mm than the Librem 5 which is 15.5 mm thick because the PinePhone solders its wireless communication chips to the PCB whereas
1652-473: The "Girls! TECH Action" project and invited Taiwanese students to the company's headquarters to promote interest in the industry and increase the number of female employees in the company. In July 2024, the company's ESG risk rating was low at just 14.7%. On April 8, 2020, AnandTech published an article on MediaTek's Sports Mode; that same day, MediaTek published a post titled "Why MediaTek Stands Behind Our Benchmarking Practices". MediaTek said Sports Mode
1711-525: The 3.5 mm headphone jack into a UART serial port , which is the first time this kind of switch has been included in a mobile phone. Circuit schematics of the PinePhone are available. The PinePhone aims to be fully open source in its drivers and bootloader. Despite this, due to the scarcity of open-source components for cellular and wireless connectivity, the firmware for the Realtek RTL8723CS Wi-Fi/Bluetooth, as well as
1770-732: The Cinnamon/GNOME edition as a community edition. An official release offering the GNOME desktop environment was reinstated in March 2017. During the development of Manjaro 0.9.0 at the end of August 2015, the team decided to switch to year and month designations for Manjaro's version scheme instead of numbers. This applies to both the 0.8.x series as well as the new 0.9.x series—renaming 0.8.13, released in June 2015, as 15.06 and so on. Manjaro 15.09, codenamed Bellatrix and formerly known as 0.9.0,
1829-468: The Librem 5 places the cellular baseband and Wi-Fi/Bluetooth on two removable M.2 cards. Pine64 is the second phone maker (after OpenMoko ) to offer booting from a microSD card, which allows users to try out one or more operating systems before installing in the internal flash memory. Another distinctive feature of the PinePhone is the I2C connector under the back cover, which can be used for adding mods to
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1888-611: The Linux kernel) was available. I fumbled a little with Manjaro's settings panel and finding some settings, but in the end I was pleased with the range of configuration I could achieve with the distribution. I especially like that Manjaro makes it easy to block notifications and keep windows from stealing focus. The distribution can be made to stay pleasantly out of the way." MediaTek#Helio A Series MediaTek Inc. ( Chinese : 聯發科技股份有限公司 ; pinyin : Liánfā Kējì Gǔfèn Yǒuxiàn Gōngsī ), sometimes informally abbreviated as MTK ,
1947-519: The PinePhone. Until 2021, the PinePhone had ports from several Linux Mobile distributions. These ports allowed for an easy installation process (flashing the distribution onto a bootable microSD card ) which was convenient to both users and creators of the distributions. Official Community Editions were released with special branding for five projects: postmarketOS , UBPorts , KDE Plasma Mobile , Manjaro and Mobian . A portion of revenue from each of these branded editions would be passed on by Pine64 to
2006-491: The Sonar project was discontinued. Although Manjaro can be installed on most systems, some vendors sell computers with Manjaro pre-installed on them. Suppliers of computers pre-installed with Manjaro include StarLabs Systems , Tuxedo Computers , manjarocomputer.eu and Pine64 . Manjaro with Plasma Mobile desktop environment is the default operating system on PinePhone , an ARM-based smartphone released by Pine64. Over
2065-414: The acquisition in the second quarter of 2016. MediaTek's financial results have been subject to variation as the financial success of different product lines fluctuated. MediaTek's relatively strong sales in 2009/2010 were based on its strong market position for feature phone chipsets. Smartphone and tablet products contributed to MediaTek's sales and income increase in 2013, while revenue recognition from
2124-524: The acquisition of MStar Semiconductor, which became effective in February 2014, as well as a continuing strong position for smartphone and tablet solutions, were the main reasons for the sales growth seen in 2014. In 2014 smartphone chips accounted for approximately 50–55% of revenue, followed by digital home products (25–30%, includes digital television chips), tablet chips (5–10%), feature phone chips (5–10%) and Wi-Fi products (5–10%). MediaTek started shipping chips with integrated 4G LTE baseband in volume in
2183-632: The company has 41 offices worldwide and was the third largest fabless chip designer worldwide in 2016. The company also provides its customers with reference designs . MediaTek became the biggest smartphone chipset vendor with 31% market share in Q3 2020. This was assisted by its strong performance in regions such as China and India. MediaTek was originally a unit of the Taiwanese firm, United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC), tasked with designing chipsets for home entertainment products. On May 28, 1997,
2242-426: The company posted revenues of US$ 5.3 billion in the first half of 2014, nearly as much as the whole of 2013. The revenue growth was however partly due to revenue recognition from the acquisition of MStar which became effective at the beginning of 2014. In September 2019, MediaTek collaborated with VVDN Technologies to design, manufacture new-age AIoT solutions. On November 25, 2019, MediaTek and Intel announced
2301-421: The first Community edition, and beside the title "The Linux-based PinePhone is the most interesting smartphone I've tried in years" it touted the number of available distros, and the idea behind communities being provided with the means of developing their OS. In January 2020, ZDNet called the PinePhone hardware "promising" and noted the hardware switches. In December 2019, Martins D. Okoi of FossMint said that
2360-603: The first Ultra HD TV platform for Android TV , resulting in the development of the MT5595 digital television SoC. The product first shipped in LCD TV models made by Sony . On November 26, 2019, MediaTek announced their 5G SoC Dimensity 1000, the world's first mobile SoC supporting AV1 . On November 6, 2023, MediaTek announced their newest flagship chip, the Dimensity 9300. Besides an increase in performance and battery life,
2419-449: The first edition of the PinePhone is aimed at Linux-savvy users who would like to test beta operating system builds, but the version for general users should be available in March 2020. In November 2019, Phillip Prado of Android Authority said that the PinePhone had the potential to "expand our imaginations into what mobile computing could look like", but he was not expecting it to replace everyone's Android device. Ars Technica wrote about
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2478-495: The install process. Both the official and the community edition's desktop environments are available for selection. For GUI-based installations, Manjaro uses the GUI installer Calamares . The 0.8.x series releases were the last versions of Manjaro to use a version number. The desktop environments offered, as well as the number of programs bundled into each separate release, have varied in different releases. Manjaro typically includes
2537-506: The latest versions of supported desktop environments. The main difference compared to Arch Linux is the repositories. Manjaro uses three sets of repositories : As of January 2019 , package updates derived from the Arch Linux stable branch to the Manjaro stable branch typically have a lag of a few weeks. Netrunner Rolling , in addition to Blue Systems Netrunner, which is Debian -based. The first version of Netrunner Rolling
2596-569: The newest chipset boasts to be AI-generative ready as well. MediaTek is developing an Arm-based PC chip for Microsoft's Windows, set to launch after Qualcomm's exclusivity ends in 2024. This move aims to challenge Apple's Arm-based Macs and Intel's dominance in the PC market. Nvidia and AMD are also working on similar Arm-based designs for Windows. MediaTek aims to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 and reduce overall carbon emissions as part of its commitment to sustainability. In 2023, MediaTek launched
2655-527: The optional autofocus firmware for the OmniVision OV5640 back camera, remain proprietary software . In order to mitigate potential threats to privacy, these components communicate with the rest of the system only over serial protocols, such as USB 2.0, I2S and SDIO, which do not allow direct memory access (DMA). Use of these protocols also permits them to be physically disconnected via kill switches. In late 2020, Pine64 started an incentive called
2714-501: The phone. In 2019 and 2020, Pine64 stated that it was developing four mods: a Psion Series 5 -inspired physical keyboard, a 5000 mAh battery, wireless charging and a fingerprint sensor. The PinePhone has six DIP switches under the back cover, the first five of which switch off separately the cellular modem, the Wi-Fi/Bluetooth module, the microphone, the rear camera, and the front camera. The sixth DIP switch will convert
2773-635: The production-ready PinePhone would be Manjaro using the KDE Plasma Mobile graphical environment. The company then introduced the PinePhone Beta Edition several weeks later. The Beta Edition's hardware and pricing was confirmed to be the same as the previous three community edition production runs, and the " Beta " was a reference to the software only. Pine64 began pre-orders on March 24, 2021, and began shipping Beta Edition devices in late April. In October 2021, Pine64 announced
2832-506: The remaining stake later. The following merger between MediaTek and MStar was delayed by antitrust concerns in China and South Korea and finalized on February 1, 2014. On September 7, 2015, MediaTek announced to buy Richtek Technology Corp., a fabless vendor of analog ICs and power management ICs based in Hsinchu, Taiwan. Richtek became a wholly subsidiary of MediaTek after the completion of
2891-462: The respective project. In 2021, the PinePhone Pro appeared. This model came with controversial changes that caused one of the main PinePhone engineers to leave the project: The above choices have later been justified by Pine64, responding to the former engineer's blog post as well as criticism of the PinePhone Pro by various Open Source communities. In August 2020, AndroidPolice reviewed
2950-504: The second half of 2014, later than its largest competitor Qualcomm. The additional cost of the separate baseband chip required in every 4G handset made MediaTek's offerings more expensive and prompted some of its larger customers, like Alcatel One Touch and ZTE , to choose competing SoCs like the Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 and 410 platforms, negatively affecting MediaTek's revenue stream. MediaTek's stock has been trading on
3009-468: The telecommunications industry. The mobile chip market quickly became the main growth driver for the company. At Mobile World Congress 2014, MediaTek unveiled its new brand "Everyday Genius", dubbing the term "Super-mid market", with the vision and aiming to make smartphones more accessible affordable to the wider market. As of November 2014, over 1500 mobile models accounting for 700 million units were shipped globally in 2014, using MediaTek chips, and
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#17327972838803068-466: The unit was spun off and incorporated. MediaTek Inc. was listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSEC) under the "2454" code on July 23, 2001. The company started out designing chipsets for optical drives and subsequently expanded into chips for DVD players, digital TVs, mobile phones, smartphones and tablets. In general MediaTek has had a strong record of gaining market share and displacing competitors after entering new markets. The company launched
3127-403: The unusual external ports of the phone, offering I2C , GPIO and serial . Manjaro Manjaro ( / m æ n ˈ dʒ ɑː r oʊ / man- JAAR -oh ) is a free and open-source Linux distribution based on the Arch Linux operating system that has a focus on user-friendliness and accessibility. It uses a rolling release update model and Pacman as its package manager. It
3186-417: The user, not from automatic app detection from a whitelist. The AnandTech article also noted that they had criticized other vendors such as Samsung Exynos and HiSilicon ( Huawei ) for past cheating practices. On April 14, 2020, Qualcomm responded, saying they do not use whitelisting as they consider it cheating. On April 16, 2020, Oppo claimed that they tried to remove Sports Mode, but did not know it
3245-412: The wide selection of official and community editions with different desktop environments. Very early versions of Manjaro had a reputation for crashing and for installation difficulties, but this was reported to have improved with later versions, and by 2014 was, according to Jesse Smith of DistroWatch , "proving to be probably the most polished child of Arch Linux I have used to date. The distribution
3304-483: The years, Manjaro Linux has been recognized as a desktop easy to set up and use, suitable for both beginners and experienced users. It is recommended as an easy and friendly way to install and maintain a cutting-edge Arch -derived distribution. Some reviewers find appeal in the large range of contributed software available in the AUR, which has a reputation for being kept up to date from upstream resources. Others highlight
3363-411: Was 2014.04, which was based on Manjaro 0.8.9 KDE. It was released in 2014. The last released version was Netrunner Rolling 2019.04. The Sonar GNU/Linux project was aimed at providing a barrier-free Linux to people who required assistive technology for computer use, with support for GNOME and MATE desktop. The first version was released in February 2015, the latest release was in 2016. As of 2017,
3422-640: Was founded. It's FOSS website stated the company was formed '... to effectively engage in commercial agreements, form partnerships, and offer professional services'. For x86-64 processors, Manjaro offers downloads configured with one of three desktops: While not official releases, Manjaro Community Editions are maintained by members of the Manjaro community. Three of these configurations are available for download at Manjaro's website: Cinnamon , i3 , and Sway . Manjaro also has official editions for devices with ARM processors, such as single-board computers or Pinebook notebooks. Manjaro comes with both
3481-540: Was released on 27 September 2015 with the new Calamares installer and updated packages. In September 2017, Manjaro announced that support for i686 architecture would be dropped because "popularity of this architecture is decreasing". However, in November 2017 a semi-official community project "manjaro32", based on archlinux32 , continued i686 support. In September 2019, the Manjaro GmbH & Co. KG company
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