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Cool video and channel. Thanks for posting!
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Presenter was generous when describing the end product. It seems to me like they want to like it but came to the same conclusion as most did -- it's definitely not a daily driver. That said, it doesn't have to be to remain a cool product.
Do give them a watch though if you have a chance. This is from a <1k subscriber channel and was well put together.
I'm convinced Pine64 has no idea how to make an actual usable product.
I wasted my money on a PineTime watch. And it's basically only useful for telling time, because as soon as you try to use any smartwatch features, the battery life basically disappears. Firmware updates are horrendously slow. The device has like 5kb of storage and 4kb is used by the base firmware, so when I thought I could program my own features for it because it's open source, it was severely mistaken. Not to mention that if I'm not particularly amazing at programming for this device I either destroy the battery life or brick it.
Pinecil is a brilliant product, though, and not just a development tool.
Well, ok, it's a development tool but not just pinecil development. It works as a tool ootb.
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I love my pinecil. I have a ts80p as well and the pinecil is just better.