Why is the Orange Pi 5 not available in Switzerland?

Last Updated on April 28, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org

• If we compare different SBC, we can see that the Orange Pi 5 is currently reviewed intensively, and has many YouTube video demos, for instance from LeebsVideo, how to install a Custom Ubuntu to eMMC drive:

• leepspvideo who is also are Raspberry expert but there is currently not much to review about Raspberry Pi, since Raspberry Pi´s are not available, and they do not release no products, the Raspberry Pi 5 will most probably only released last year, and Orange has already overtook the Raspberry Pi 4 with their latest Orange Pi 5 as far as technological development is concerned.
• Also NicoD’s SBCs shows us armbian YouTube video demos of the Orange Pi 5 which show that the device is much ahead to the Rasperry Pi 4 as far as contemporary software solutions are concerned:

Orange Pi 5 RK3588S review with Armbian Jammy Gnome:

The Orange Pi 5 has also an active community in the Armbian forum:

https://forum.armbian.com/forum/206-orange-pi-5-5b/

• But if we want to buy the Orange Pi 5 in a shop in Switzerland who offers us a 24 month warranty time, we ave a problem and cannot find a single shop who offers us this option.
• This is difficult to understand. Do Swiss single board computer sellers not read our journal?

• www.techstudio.ch:

https://techstudio.ch/

• only want to sell us the old Orange Pi 4, but not the new Orange Pi 5

• If we search under www.Conrad.ch for Orange Pi 5, whe can find offers for Raspberry Pi hats and akkus:

https://www.conrad.ch/de/search.html?search=orange%20pi%205

• and a sponsored link to Orange Pi 5 cases sold on Amazon Germany:

https://www.amazon.de/s?k=orange+pi+5+case&adgrpid=145761842789&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIttSDof3L_gIVj9DVCh1BYgqbEAAYASAAEgJWZfD_BwE&hvadid=648580517944&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=1003297&hvnetw=s&hvqmt=b&hvrand=13886428594124020105&hvtargid=kwd-1905917808863&hydadcr=28548_2369640&tag=hydrach-21&ref=pd_sl_9iuda2bwy3_b

• If we are looking for the Raspberry Pi CM4 on Conrad, Conrad says it is not available:

https://www.conrad.ch/de/p/raspberry-pi-cm4001016-raspberry-pi-compute-modul-4-1-gb-4-x-1-5-ghz-2332151.html

• and suggests us to buy the Radxa Zero which is available:

https://www.conrad.ch/de/p/radxa-rs102-d4e32w2-radxa-zero-4-gb-4-x-1-8-ghz-2490824.html

• It is hard to understand why Conrad offers the Radxa zero but not the Orange Pi 5
• We found many interesting YouTube video review demos about the Orange Pi 5, which are interesting.
• There are also a lot of YouTube video review demos about the Radxa zero, we reviewed those in our yournal
• But we could not find a single of this demos of the Radxa zero which could convince us
• The Radxa zero could not convince us that it is a device which is worth buying
• But Conrad offers the Radxa zero which can be bought from stock, but not the Orange Pi 5
• This is difficult to understand
• We contacted Conrad regarding this topic, and they answered they would check to offer the Orange Pi 5 in their shop.
• If you life in Switzerland and are interested in buying the Orange Pi 5, we suggest you to contact Conrad Switzerland and ask for it.
• Conrad Switzerland is for us personally the best experience as a SBC seller in Switzerland.
• We hope that Conrad will offer the Orange Pi 5 in their Swiss shop soon with 24 month warranty time.
• We can currently buy to Orange Pi 5 from Aliexpress if we live in Switzerland. There are many shops who offer it. But they only offer a 75 day money back warranty, and not a warranty time of 24 month, and sending back from Switzerland to China is most probably so expensive that it is not worth it. So it is questionable if it worth to buy the Orange Pi 5 on Aliexress for Swiss costumers.