I’ve bought other Pine64 products before (ARM SoCs) and they were high quality and well supported. I don’t expect my recommendation to mean much, but for $150 I’ll be taking a punt on this phone too. Even if it ends up as a brick I’d be happy knowing I’d supported Pine64’s efforts to make commodity hardware like this succeed.
If anyone has experience otherwise I’d be interested to hear.
Why would it be a scam? They have a variety of products that are well regarded by the community, an active forum, etc, so why would they betray that trust for a $150 phone sold in a relatively small batch? They are also upfront about not providing software support, so their liability ends when they deliver a phone that meets the relatively modest specs they outlined.
