# PINE64 April 2025 Community Update: PineTab-V availability and device updates

DevFeed: [PINE64 April 2025 Community Update: PineTab-V availability and device updates](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/april-update-risc-it-for-a-biscuit-34886.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://pine64.org/2025/04/13/april_2025/>)

Published: 2025-04-13T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Community blog on PINE64](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/community-blog-on-pine64.md>)

Topics: [Pinetab2](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/pinetab2.md>), [Debian](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/debian.md>), [FOSDEM](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/fosdem.md>), [GPU](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/gpu.md>), [Hardware](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/hardware.md>), [Pinenote](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/pinenote.md>), [Android](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/android.md>)

Tags: [android](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/android.md>), [cameras](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cameras.md>), [debian](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/debian.md>), [deepseek](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/deepseek.md>), [firefox](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/firefox.md>), [firmware](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/firmware.md>), [fosdem](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/fosdem.md>), [gpu](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gpu.md>), [hardware](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hardware.md>), [llm](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/llm.md>), [npu](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/npu.md>), [pinecil](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pinecil.md>), [pinenote](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pinenote.md>), [pinetab-v](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pinetab-v.md>), [pinetab2](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pinetab2.md>), [pinetime](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pinetime.md>), [soc](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/soc.md>), [update](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/update.md>), [wifi](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/wifi.md>)

## AI overview

PINE64's April 2025 community update covers improvements to the PineTab2, PineTime, and PineNote; the PineTab-V's return to the store with a Debian and GNOME factory image; and the upcoming StarPro64 SBC, which includes an Eswin EIC7700 SoC, 32GB of LPDDR5 memory, and a 20 TOPS NPU.

## Source excerpt

Hello and happy April! The past few months have been relatively quiet on the surface, but there is a lot going on behind the scenes. During the past three months we have seen some improvements for the PineTab2, PineTime and PineNote, along with the announcement that the PineTab-V is back in store and the new micro soldering tip set for the Pinecil. Charlie the Pinecorn also makes his yearly appearance in the update banner, artwork made by Caffeine. We have been very happy with the feedback after the launch of the PineNote Community Edition. Users coming from the developer edition with Android have been able to successfully move to the new Debian firmware without any major issues (thanks Maximilian, Diederik and hrdl!). We'd also like to apologize as we had most of this written up around late February early March and things got busy. Thanks for waiting patiently! We're making sure to focus on getting the word out than increasing the word count from now on. Table of contents FOSDEM 2025 PineTab-V StarPro64 PineTab2 PineNote Kernel improvements Demos PineTime Pinecil Community content PineNote Want to contribute to the next community update? FOSDEM 2025 Author: Caffeine Thank you to everyone who came past the pop-up meet-up at FOSDEM, it was fantastic to see everyone and be able to say hello. As mentioned in the previous update we weren't allocated a table this year, but we managed to meet with community members at Bar Campouce. We hope to get a table for next years event. PineTab-V Author: Caffeine We are happy to announce that the PineTab-V is back in the store! Last year we reported that the PineTab-V would be going on sale in October, unfortunately this did not happen due to there being no default OS to send to the factory. Thanks to our friends over at StarFive, they have kindly built a working image to send to the factory (thank you!). The image is based on Debian with a Gnome desktop. Much of the hardware is working including the cameras, WiFi and GPU accelerati