Will a Linux phone based on Rasberry Pi full-fill the expectations the Pinephone did not full-fill?

Last Updated on June 28, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org

Most components of the Pinephone are already available from Rasberry Pi:

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/raspberry-pi-smartphone-ourphon

The Rasbperry Pi zero 2 w is a great starting point to build a Pinephone alternative if you are not a Linux phone enthousiast who is looking for the perfect Linux phone::

  • The bottle neck of the Raspberry Pi zero 2 w are his 512 MB Ram.
  • This makes the Raspberry Pi zero 2 to a kind of a pipe detonator as well.
  • It has been reviewed on YouTube many times.
  • A long thread in the Raspberry Pi forum about Raspberry Pi zero 2 w has been looked.
  • You only find individual questions about this Pi in the Pi forum currrently.
  • And are not most of the Raspberry Pi projects currently are based on the Pi4 or Pi 5 and not the zero 2 w?
  • Furhermore Raspberry Pi OS runs on the zero 2 w which was developed over the last 10 years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi_OS

But I suppose in around 3 years from now there will be an updated version of the Rasbperry Pi zero 2 w with more RAM which removes this bottle neck.