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It is too optimistic. If you look for example at Video 'A live hack, Homebrew Roms and a new Racing Game' you will there see Pyra takes from 3:48 to to 4:22 when login asking password appears on screen, i.e. 30 seconds. Then he enters password and wait for 10 seconds more to be ready to play...

For me it is worse: I own a lot of pocket computers since eighties and all of them had sleep mode. On some of them sleep mode last for years, on others months. For example in HP 48 series (they were marketed as advanced programmable calculator but they were real pocket computers¹) batteries can...

Energy can be transferred by cable from lower case to upper case. On other side I suppose big notebooks with big screens, wireless antennas and camera on screen part, will transfer more energy from battery on bottom case to upper case than all MNT Reform will consume. And those notebooks work...

We need more time to see if Pyra problems are solved. Some problems, for example no sleep mode on OMAP5, only will be solved with next CPU board, because OMPA5 on Pyra, being designed for cars, doesn't support it (they don't need it). For me it is a big disappointment as I own a lot of old...

Those images are from a very early prototype with wooden case. Of course it will have ports (at least MNT "standard=big" Reform has ports). Here https://tuxphones.com/mnt-pocketreform-open-hardware-linux-pda-keyboard-arm/ you can see other (old) images and renders. On this render you can see...

Thank you very much for that info. Really sad its keyboard is so bad (at least at the moment). I think I will use PinePhone mostly without keyboard (on-screen keyboard are not so bad on modern capacitive touchscreens). On other side I will continue waiting for Pyra (real pocket form factor...

Why do so sat PinePhone keyboard is nearly unusable? At the moment I don't have PinePhone keyboard but I own a Psion 5mx, and PinePhone keyboard imitate 5mx keyboard (I think Pine does in a better way because PinePhone doesn't have moving base from 5mx). The problem I found on 5mx is its...

But it can't harm your system, if done in a good way, because software run on emulator is executed on a wrapped environment. For example if I run Commodore VICE emulator on my system, and I set up options according, software run on emulator can't scape from wrapped environment (except with rare...

Someone could say "but I can buy a PinePhone Pro+keyboard case and I would not have to wait for a Rockchip RK3399S CPU board for Pyra" in relation to my previous message #26). Someone could say "but I can buy a MNT PocketReform (when it be on sale) and I would not have to wait for a NXP i.MX...

Waiting a CPU board with a Rockchip RK3399S, like PhinePhone Pro, would be another good reason, because although it is not exactly like NXP i.MX, it would be cheaper, even more powerful and would benefit/share from PinePhone community. It would be a plus for Pyra.

Let's go back to threat question: Any reason to keep going? (for me, not in general) Waiting for a RISC-V CPU board for Pyra is not a good reason if you want an open CPU/dirvers/support, because RISC-V doesn't imply open design/drivers nor good support. BUT waiting for a NXP i.MX CPU board...

Even that modern reincarnation with new instructions, 64 bit, etc, continue being a CISC design. Modern x86-64 continue being CISC CPU and they have to "translate" those CISC instructions internally to execute them in an efficient way more similar to RISC (and they have to support old...

It would be very interesting for Amiga followers. To run modern Linux I think it would not be good on FPGA, because although Linux support 68k architecture, performance on FPGA would be low to move modern Linux and modern soft. I love Motorola 68k architecture, it was a dream and far better...

It may be I didn't explained RISC-V problem good enough, so I will try one more: 1/ ISA vs implementations RISC-V "ISA" is a very good thing because it is OPEN, but the OPEN part is the ISA, the instruction set. And the ISA (Instruction Set Architecture) is only an ABSTRACT MODEL of an...

If Pyra choose Rockchip used in PinePhone Pro it woulf be a bonus, as this SOC will have a big community around. But I don't know if Pyra case will have room to accommodate that SOC plus heat sink. The problem with Pyra design is that they left too little space for future SOCs that could be a...

Why do you hope a RISC-V board be good for Pyra? I like RISC-V but I think there is a lot of misconception about RISC-V in a lot of people. RISC-V is an OPEN architecture/ISA (Instruction Set Architecture) but a future RISC-V SOC Pyra could use wouldn't be open: likely it would have a lot of...

RISC-V would add much more problems to actual Pyra software and driver problems. RISC-V has a great future, but today even standard Linux support is not totally finished. You can look at SiFive: although some people at SiFive were in RISC-V from start, their RISC-V SBC (Single Board Computer)...

Some times I think all the time we would have saved, and all the time plus money ED would has saved, if ED would have chosen CNC milled aluminium case or milling plastic (like those used in Nokia N9 and some Lumia). Som times going for cheap results much more expensive ending. With CNC you...

Librem 5 is more libre than Pyra, but it is much more expensive. Recently it got even more expensive: [liliputing] Purism Librem 5 Linux smartphone is getting another (big) price hike $1299 for a Librem 5 is too much for me (I understand with Librem 5 you pay software development, not only...

You are right about smartphones, but: 1/ A lot of smartphones are constructed in a very good way. For example mine, with only like 7 mm thickness, is MIL-STD-810G compliant (not for use in extreme conditions, of course). Some day it went to floor over a marble stairs (without cover): no damage...