PinePhone Plasma Convergence Edition Unboxing and First Impressions
Channel: Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen
Date: 2021-01-30

Pine64 and the KDE community have collaborated to create a phone, which comes in two different versions. The Pine64 Plasma Edition PinePhone, either with or without the convergence pack. This is my unboxing and first impressions of the convergence kit equipped one, and I hope you agree with me that this is an exciting piece of kit. 

If it seems like i've skipped something important to you, that's just because it's perhaps not quite so important to me (yes, i know, you want to run android apps - that's not what i'm here for, but i'm told there's resources available for that sort of thing).

Spoiler alert: i'm excited about this thing, and based on what i've seen here, i'm pretty sure there's a lot of shiny stuff ahead for Linux on phones. Taken us a while, but this? Yeah, it feels pretty good.

If you want one of these, i'm afraid the KDE Plasma Community Edition has ended, but here's a link to the Pine Store's PinePhone section: https://pine64.com/product-category/pinephone/


As of Wednesday the 24th of March, Pine64 have posted that they're now open for preorders of the beta edition of the Pine Phone, which ships with Plasma Mobile on Manjaro, which is also what this video is about (though in a very early version) :) https://twitter.com/thepine64/status/1374573894737272832