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it is sort of, but not terrible for 99$ device with a keyboard. https://youtu.be/l53h_uQ41Ao?t=274
The last time I looked it was $99 for the tablet, plus $20 if you wanted to add the keyboard. Has that changed?
I suppose we can expect it to perform as well as a $99 tablet?
Anybody here remember the HP Touchpad firesale where HP liquidated their stock of cancelled not-quite-iPad-competitors for $99.99 and people went nuts for them? It's weird how that felt like a great deal and yet this one is expensive enough to make me question if I could get anything close to that much value out of it. The HP firesale was back in the days where a decent tablet cost around $500 and it was a screaming…
Maybe it also reflected less of a worry about losing software support at that time. If Apple told us that the iPad was now discontinued and you could get an iPad Pro for $99, I wonder how many people would jump on it. If the software is dead the device is a brick. That concept wasn’t really on people’s minds as much in the PC days.
In retrospect it’s unbelievable that HP had the lack of foresight to abandon webOS and Palm devices. Maybe there’s a lot of business reasons why it would have never worked but I remember Palm and HP TouchPad devices being very popular in the early consumer smartphone days, and the software was competitive. If it wasn’t good we wouldn’t see it all over smart TVs today.
Technically, Amazon Fire tablets are also Linux, and cheaper. (But the Fire runs Linux in the outdated-Android-with-crapware sense, of course, so this is still quite different)
I wonder why they price their products so cheap. They seem to be totally overrun by demand. And give a terrible user experience when you try to order from them. Friends of mine have ordered (and paid!) Pine64 products weeks ago and get no information when they will be shipped. When you send them an email, it either gets ignored or you get a reply by someone who does not speak English. Telling you something like "Yes…
The PineTab comes with UBports OS build installed. Please note that the OS build is still in a beta stage, and while most core functionality works, some elements remain a work-in-progress.
Small numbers (1-3) of stuck or dead pixels are a characteristic of LCD screens. These are normal and should not be considered a defect.
When fulfilling the purchase, please bear in mind that we are offering the PineTab at this price as a community service to PINE64 communities. If you think that a minor dissatisfaction, such as a dead pixel, will prompt you to file a PayPal dispute then please do not purchase the PineTab. Thank you.
I hate this “race to the bottom” behavior that a lot of Linux OEMs are doing. We need a flagship Linux product, not cheap throwaway products that will tarnish its reputation. This is Android all over again.
Anybody here remember the HP Touchpad firesale where HP liquidated their stock of cancelled not-quite-iPad-competitors for $99.99 and people went nuts for them? It's weird how that felt like a great deal and yet this one is expensive enough to make me question if I could get anything close to that much value out of it. The HP firesale was back in the days where a decent tablet cost around $500 and it was a screaming…
Agreed -- there's a big subsidy from Amazon there. But LCD screens and much of the same parts as computers+phones have had big economic forces driving the prices down.
I wonder why they price their products so cheap. They seem to be totally overrun by demand. And give a terrible user experience when you try to order from them. Friends of mine have ordered (and paid!) Pine64 products weeks ago and get no information when they will be shipped. When you send them an email, it either gets ignored or you get a reply by someone who does not speak English. Telling you something like "Yes…
This isnt really a finished product that they are comfortable selling to the general population. I actually feel like they are doing a pretty good job of setting customers expectations. From the order page for the pine tab I see these disclaimers: The PineTab comes with UBports OS build installed. Please note that the OS build is still in a beta stage, and while most core functionality works, some elements remain a w…
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I only have one Pine device, a Pinebook. The build quality seems good to me, it isn't just a collection of components thrown together.
Mind if I ask what you use it for? I’m always tempted to buy one but I don’t really know what I would do with it besides stick it in my drawer of cool but not particularly useful tech that gathers dust. At least it’s cheaper than my Google Glass and GoPro...
Have used it as my only laptop a few times too but I mostly work from home.