May Update: PineTab Pre-Orders, PinePhone Qi Charging and More

With the PinePhone and Pinebook Pro production well under way and shipping in just a few days time, we’ll now be turning our attention to the other projects we have in the pipeline. There is a fair bit of material to cover this month – the main piece of news, however, is that we’ll be taking pre-orders for the PineTab at the end of this month!

This may be the longest blog entry in some time, so let’s get to it.

TL;DR of this month’s community update:

• Moving to PINE64 cluster will be completed by this time next month; expect community services outages
• Shipping Pinebook Pros and PinePhones this month; don’t spam support/ info emails please
• We’ll be accepting payments in cryptocurrencies soon 
• PineTab pre-orders start this month and ships with UBports’ Ubuntu Touch; please subscribe to blog for info when pre-orders go live
• PineTab adapters for individual and industry users; LTE, SSD, LoRa and RTL-SDR available soon
• PinePhone Ubuntu Touch OTA and factory image – a quick chat about the software
• PinePhone multi-OS bootloader is coming; many OSes showing signs of maturing
• Wireless charging coming to the PinePhone via add-on / using pogo pins
• A large (5000mAh) battery case for the PinePhone is being explored
• You will be able to support smaller PinePhone projects soon by buying their project branded case-backs
• Pinebook Pro – one week shipping delay explained
• Pinebook Pro you can now watch Netflix on Manjaro; many OS releases become available including official Debian support! 
• Pinebook Pro USB-C dock details locked in; spare parts are now in the PINE Store
• Pinebook (original) gets a facelift; we’re committed to the $99 price-tag
• PineTime can now sync on Sailfish OS; app will be ported to Ubuntu Touch