this month we have some first pine phone pro impressions to share as well as some pine time and pinedio news let's just jump into it but first thanks to everyone who contributed to the update including jf alex brian lucas and if you want more videos about open source stuff check out my channel pizza loving nerd this is the video version of the community update so if you want more details check out the blog post version but this video will give you a synopsis let's start with housekeeping we set up some automated spam detection systems to combat a lot of spam that has been plaguing pine NUMBER_TOKEN chats recently the past NUMBER_TOKEN weeks have seen a huge uptick in spam in the channels so hopefully these systems fix it up for us for a while next up fostom is going virtual again this year which prompted us to consider scheduling a dedicated pine NUMBER_TOKEN in-person meetup in NUMBER_TOKEN we're considering hosting the event in the may july time frame likely somewhere in the heart of germany so if there's enough interest for this event we will try to set something up like this we would also like to have a virtual component for those who are unable to travel during the pandemic still so make sure to let us know if this is something you would like to arrange in the comment section now to pine phone pro news we have closed the pine phone pro dev pre-orders two weeks ago since the number of applications has far exceeded the amount of available dev units we are also going to issue the developer coupons this week dispatching coupons was delayed because of a mainboard issue that is now fixed but this should not affect the shipping time frame for dev units nor the availability of explorer edition units lucas has received an early pine phone unit and has not been able to put the device down he writes that the ui animations are smooth applications open very quickly and scrolling in the web browser or interacting with elements of an app feel instant the device does run warm but not uncomfortably hot the slc reaches a temperature of NUMBER_TOKEN degrees after running a load on all cores for NUMBER_TOKEN minutes then it drops down to NUMBER_TOKEN degrees after a minute of cooling down another NUMBER_TOKEN minutes of running firefox and doing nothing got to NUMBER_TOKEN degrees and NUMBER_TOKEN degrees is the average temperature when doing general web browsing this is all in celsius just so you know in conclusion it does technically get hotter than the original pine phone however thanks to the thermal design it feels cooler than the original pine phone to other people using it a couple other observations that you cannot tell from just renders and photos of the pine phone is that the display's colors are rich in the screen itself is bright the vibration motor is a lot more powerful than the original pine phones and five gigahertz wi-fi connectivity has been very good thermal pad on the back case is much larger and distributes the heat well the battery is slightly different and labeled with a new phone model and the sim card slot and sd card slot are slightly different as are the buttons on the edge of the phone as for software the kernel is still being worked on right now but everything should work except for the sound phone calls cameras usb and camera flash some of these are being worked on already and will be resolved quickly while other things may take more work for it to be working more information about the pine phone pros software will be following in the coming months as developers get their hands on the device next up the pine phone
START_SELFPROMO_TOKEN let's just jump into it but first thanks to everyone who contributed to the update including jf alex brian lucas and if you want more videos about open source stuff check out my channel pizza loving nerd this is the video version of the community update so if you want more details check out the blog post version but this video will give you a synopsis END_SELFPROMO_TOKEN