Is the Pinephone finally dead or will the keyboard come back?

Last Updated on July 7, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org

  • The Pinephone is still available in the Pine64 USA store.
  • The Pinephone keyboard is at the the 3. th place of forum threads with the most views:

«Play along – create a PinePhone keyboard»

has 281,271 views up to this date:

https://forum.pine64.org/search.php?action=results&sid=ac9ae08c7bec328a4239f28e3fb4b27e&sortby=views&order=desc

  • But there is not be much life left about the Pinephone in the Pine64 forum.

Pinephone user Twinntech asks on YouTube:

«Is the Pinephone finally dead»?

Maybe an enthousiastic electronic engineer fixes the issues with the Pinephone keyboard.

  • The Pinephone keyboard is a component which makes the device superior for instance to mobile phones from the Ubports foundation.
  • But we do not know this for sure if this keyboard comes back.
  • the situation was similar with the OpenBCI WIFI shield.
  • A very high-quality module has not come back to this date to the www.openbci.com shop:
  • And there where contradictory information about it.
  • The issue was quiet small, and it is hard to understand that www.openbci.com did not resolve the issue and bring it back.