I'd be interested in this if it weren't for the screen resolution. I've long since found that 150ppi is the dividing line for me with tablets where I can't ignore the pixel grid anymore.
Pine64 launches the cheapest Linux Tablet ever priced at just $99.99
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Re: Pine64 launches the cheapest Linux Tablet ever priced at just $99.99
#62I 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…
Raising the price to $110 might make demand match their supply (by dropping, say, 80% of demand), but losing $10 per unit sold may be an extremely good deal for all the marketing the excess demand generates.
Re: Pine64 launches the cheapest Linux Tablet ever priced at just $99.99
#63I 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…
But how elastic is that demand? Would they have the same amount if the price was higher?
They could easily charge $250 for the Pinebook Pro without losing many sales IMO.
Re: Pine64 launches the cheapest Linux Tablet ever priced at just $99.99
#64I 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…
I see this as a really good sign. It implies marketing is not yet running the show... into the ground.
Re: Pine64 launches the cheapest Linux Tablet ever priced at just $99.99
#65Anybody 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…
Fire tablets are trash that can barely show books and streaming.
Re: Pine64 launches the cheapest Linux Tablet ever priced at just $99.99
#66I suppose we can expect it to perform as well as a $99 tablet?
Pinephone from Pine64 with 2 GB RAM currently performs like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH3RbrwhNd8
Upd: if it's too slow for you, consider this: http://media.lrdu.org/sxmo_pinephone_demos/sxmo_demo_0_allfe...
Re: Pine64 launches the cheapest Linux Tablet ever priced at just $99.99
#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
How does the statement about dead pixels help people who ordered and paid a phone but get no information on when it will be shipped? Regarding general population vs hackers: Do you imply that hackers value low price higher then others? Are hackers particularely poor? I thought hacker often means coder which usually means higher income then the general population. Personally, I would totally prefer to pay 50% more and…
The price is low because they are generally selling things at cost as a service. This isn't a standard "make a device for $50 then sell it for $400 because we can" company because they don't want to be. Orders are delayed because, and this may surprise you, there is a global pandemic right now which is affecting factory workers in China, causing production and Q&A issues because of restricted staff, visitors, and shi…
They have said that orders for people who opted for the faster DHL shipping option had already shipped out 6/5 - 6/6 and would be given a tracking number and contacted by DHL, yet there are some of us who have still received nothing in terms of updates.
Here we are, a week later, and even after their update 3 hrs ago, the Pine team has yet to acknowledge this.
Ordinarily I would have shrugged it off, but the shipping carrier needs to reach out to collect their taxes before we can get our devices.
E: offtopic, but there's no need for the namecalling. We like to think we're classier than that 'round here.
Re: Pine64 launches the cheapest Linux Tablet ever priced at just $99.99
#68I'd be interested in this if it weren't for the screen resolution. I've long since found that 150ppi is the dividing line for me with tablets where I can't ignore the pixel grid anymore.
Gotta walk before run.
If you help this version succeed, the hipdi version will likely be developed sooner.
Re: Pine64 launches the cheapest Linux Tablet ever priced at just $99.99
#69Pretty sure Walmart sold RCA brand Android tablets for $50.
I wonder if the performance of those tablets would improve if android was removed and run pine linux instead.
that said size of the screen is actually a big factor in price, also you need more powerful processor to push pixels on that screen and bigger battery for power draw. all those costs add up. plus they maybe following razer blade model.
Re: Pine64 launches the cheapest Linux Tablet ever priced at just $99.99
#70I 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…
I will get one, just to have one. Just like I wanted to get that $100 laptop a decade (or more?) ago but I never got the chance. I see it more as supporting an endeavour that may benefit more people down the road, than any thought I got on my mind.
For anyone who wants a a decent tablet (Android 5 though) on 10", I suggest the Amazon Fire HD (7th gen is fine), you can get a used for for £30-£50, then "hack it" to remove the Amazon crap/bloatware (plenty of sites with instructions out there) and use that. I have set up multiple friends like that. They buy it, meet for a coffee, I de-crap it for them in 20mins and they end up with a nice 10" android tablet to read and watch Netflix.
(Not advertising or affiliated with Amazon)(I think Bezos should give more to his staff and less to his pocket) ;)