Pine64 to ship $99 PineTab tablet from the end of July

Pine64 will deliver its first tablet PineTab after some delays from the end of July. The tablet is available to order and costs $99. It was already clear last month that pre-orders for the tablet would start soon.

The tablet with 10.1″ screen and Ubuntu Touch will cost $99, while the optional magnetic cover with backlit keys should cost $20, according to the product page. The PineTab should have been released last year, but the release was delayed. Initially the delay was due to a focus on the Pine64 smartphone and laptop, but then the coronavirus forced the planning to be overhauled.

The tablet has a 10.1″ display with 720p resolution and an IPS panel. Under the hood is an Allwinner A64 quadcore CPU with a Mali-400 MP2 GPU, 2GB ram, and 64GB emmc storage. storage memory can be expanded with a micro-sd card that can also be booted from.Pine64 is also working on an m2-ssd adapter that can be mounted in the tablet.For the same slot, an lte-gps board is also being worked on, a lora board and an rtl-sdr board Several of these add-ons can be in the tablet at the same time, but only one can be used at a time.

The tablet will ship with Ubuntu Touch, a touchscreen-optimized version of Ubuntu, which can also switch to mouse-and-keyboard input. However, the makers state that the PineTab “supports many mainline 64-bit arm Linux desktop distros.” Deliveries of the tablet will take place from the end of July, OMGUbuntu writes.