Pine64 community, creating open devices, It was announced the beginning of the production of the new Pinetab2 PC, built on the basis of the SOC Rockchip RK3566 with a four-haired ARM Cortex-A55 (1.8 GHZ) and GPU ARM Mali-G52 EE. The cost and time of admission to sale has not yet been determined, it is only known that the first copies for testing developers will begin to be made after the Chinese New Year (January 22). The first model of the Pinetab tablet was is available at a price of $ 120, And the PINENOTE Electronic book on the same SOC was sold at a price of $ 399.
Like the first Pinetab model, the new tablet is equipped with a 10.1-inch screen (IPS) and is equipped with a disconnected keyboard that allows you to use the device as a regular laptop. The parameters of the cameras are also preserved: the rear 5MP, 1/4 ″ (LED Flash) and the front 2MP (F/2.8, 1/5 ″), as well as the characteristics of the battery (6000 MAH). Depending on the configuration, the amount of RAM will be 4 or 8 GB, and the constant memo (EMMC Flash) – 64 or 128 GB (for comparison, the first Pinetab was supplied with 2 GB of RAM and 64 GB Flash). From the connectors, the presence of two ports USB-C (USB 3.0 and USB 2.0), Micro HDMI, Microsd and a 3.5mm head of headphones are mentioned.
Until the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth modules will not be determined in the device. Also, which of the Linux distributions will not be announced yet. In the first Pinetab, Ubuntu Touch was supplied by default from the Ubport project, and as options, an additional were offered images with manjaro linux, postmarketos , Arch Linux Arm, Mobian and Sailfish Os.
