If you’re thinking to buy current availablePinePhone Manjaro Community Edition, you may need to rethink as PINE64 has nowteamedup with KDE community to launch a new PinePhone KDE Community Edition.
After PinePhoneUbports,postmarketOS, andManjaroCommunity Edition (CE), it’s fourth CE of Linux-based PinePhone smartphone, which will now feature free and open source KDE Plasma Mobile User Interface.
This new PinePhone CE with Plasma Mobile will be available to preorder starting on July 06, 2025. Until then, let’s see what it has to offer:
PinePhone KDE Community Edition (CE)
Similar to the previous two CE, PinePhone with KDE will also come in two hardware variants: Regular and Convergence Package.
As usual, the regular editions will cost $149 offering 2GB of RAM and 16GB of eMMC; the Convergence Package will cost $199 providing extended 3GB of RAM and 32GB of eMMC bundled with a USB-C dock to connect it to external peripherals like mouse, keyboard, and monitor.
Here’s the brief hardware specification of PinePhone KDE CE:
On the software side, it ships a direct descendant of a widely known Plasma desktop for Linux, called Plasma mobile. Subsequently, it brings truly convergent applications, which offer total privacy and user control, such as KDE Connect, Okular document reader, and VVave music player.
At last, I would also like to remind that PinePhone always allow you to replace its default operating system with othersupported Linux-based OSessuch asMobian, openSUSE, and Gentoo.
