The first batch of Orange Pi Plus will be shipped on 20 March.

zhao_steven · Published in 2015-3-13 17:39:06

The first batch of Orange Pi Plus will be shipped on 20 March. Thank you for your waiting.

FransM · Published in 2015-3-14 16:50:01

Cool!
Pity there is no NAND flash.
If I understood correctly it is not possible to directly boot from the SATA disk.
In that case SDHC is still needed to load u-boot from.
Ideally there would be some nand flash for that.

zhao_steven · Published in 2015-3-14 18:16:03

Orange pi plus has 8GB EMMC flash onboard.

FransM · Published in 2015-3-14 22:47:28

Cool!
You should add that to the website (http://www.orangepi.org/orangepiplus/en.html)

fritz · Published in 2015-3-15 23:18:00

FransM replied at 2015-3-14 16:50
Cool!
Pity there is no NAND flash.
If I understood correctly it is not possible to directly boot f ...

Maybe its possible to boot from EMMC to SATA without using the sd-card.
lets see when its arrived

@zhao_steven
Why was the Allwinner A31s initially replaced by the H3 ?

RaveenBouy · Published in 2015-3-16 00:43:55

@Fritz, I guess it's due to it's cost.

zhao_steven · Published in 2015-3-16 00:50:30

Because A31s is old chip. Because A31s has relatively large power consumption and slow speed.

fritz · Published in 2015-3-25 13:30:25

android image and user maual for the pi plus (H3) available in the download section, but still no board.

shipment seems delayed for some reason.

zhao_steven · Published in 2015-3-25 14:30:18

Orange Pi Plus can boot EMMC flash without sd-card.

OrangePiLinux · Published in 2015-3-28 21:36:42

Edited by OrangePiLinux at 2015-3-28 21:39

zhao_steven replied at 2015-3-16 00:50
Because A31s is old chip. Because A31s has relatively large power consumption and slow speed.

Well I completely agree--A31S is not best solution right now. Probably because in A31S is used SGX544MP2 chip--it makes it expensive.

But at same time I can tell that H3 chip also not the best one. I mean to me looks like Allwinner manufactured this chip--but I do not think that it is powerfull with Mali 400MP2 only. Like kind of like funny situation--H8 is good chip--but more expensive and H3 is cheap--but not as powerfull. Like ther is no midlle range chip from Allwinner right now...