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Good question. I am not sure about a killer app, but killer features - for sure. The ability to dock the phone via USB-C and use it as a desktop; attach the keyboard add-on and have your own PDA-type device with LTE; hacking additional functionality into the phone via the pogo pins (example); hardware privacy switches; or simply using taking 2-3 easily sourcable spare batteries with you on a mountain trek... I think there are a few things the PinePhone / PinePhone Pro can do that very few devices in this form factor can.
The RK3399 LPDDR4 training code is open-source (albeit rather impenetrable to read) - implementations exist in coreboot, u-boot, and levinboot, so closed source firmware isn't required. I'm afraid I don't know answers to the other questions.
The RK3399 LPDDR4 training code is open-source (albeit rather impenetrable to read) - implementations exist in coreboot, u-boot, and levinboot, so closed source firmware isn't required. I'm afraid I don't know answers to the other questions.
The RK3399 LPDDR4 training code is open-source (albeit rather impenetrable to read) - implementations exist in coreboot, u-boot, and levinboot, so closed source firmware isn't required. I'm afraid I don't know answers to the other questions.
Switching the OS is extremely easy. All it takes is putting in a microSD card imaged with the new system (or to flash the eMMC with a tool like Jumpdrive, once it gains the support for the Pro).
The advantage of running standard Linux is that you can run basically any software you could on a Linux PC (barring architecture incompatibility). There's also potential privacy benefits, as there isn't the same philosophy of tracking your every action like there is on Android. And if you still need Android apps, there's stuff like Waydroid to help.
Not sure if you know this but there is an AOSP build for the OG PinePhone running mainline Linux with patches.
Easily. You can use https://github.com/roema/cryptsetup-nuke to do it at boot time, you can use an evil-maid tool to detect and wipe luks at init-time if the boot partition was tampered with, and just cryptsetup erase /dev/...; echo b > /proc/sysrq-trigger to wipe the luks header and immediately force a hard reboot