Community Pine64, engaged in creating open devices, presented Pinenote’s e-book, equipped with 10.3-inch screen on the basis of electronic ink . The device is built on the basis of SOC Rockchip RK3566 with a four-core processor ARM Cortex-A55, AI accelerator RK NN (0.8TOPS) and GPU MALI G52 2EE (OpenGL ES 3.2, Vulkan 1.1, OpenCl 2.0), which makes the device one of the highest performance in its class. Currently, Pinenote is at the stage of the prototype prepared for the production of the prototype. Receipt is scheduled for this year at a price of $ 399.
The device will be supplied with 4 GB of RAM (LPDDR4) and 128 GB EMMC Flash. The 10.3-inch screen is built on the basis of electronic ink (E-INK), supports resolution 1404×1872 pixels (227 DPI), 16 grades of gray, highlighting with changing brightness, as well as two layers for organizing input – touch (capacitive glass) to control the touch of fingers and EMR (electromagnetic resonance) for input using electronic pen (EMR PEN). Pinenote also has two microphones and two sound speakers, supports WiFi 802.11b / G / N / AC (5GHz), equipped with a USB-C port and 4000mAh battery. The front frame of the housing is made of magnesium alloy, and the rear cover of plastic. The thickness of the device is only 7 mm.
Pinenote software is based on Linux – Support SOC Rockchip RK3566 is already included in the main composition of the Linux kernel in the process of designing the Quartz64 . Screen-based driver is still under development, but will be ready for the beginning of production. The first parties are planned to be released with the pre-installed Manjaro Linux and the Linux 4.19 core. As a custom envelope, it is planned to use KDE Plasma Mobile or a slightly modified landing desktop KDE Plasma. However, the development has not yet been completed and the final software filling will depend on how the selected technologies will behave on the screen based on e-paper.
