Banana Pi releases BPI-M4 Zero single-board computer with 8 GB eMMC storage and 2 GB RAM for $28.90

Banana Pi's latest alternative to the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W has now arrived, shortly after its introduction late last month. To recap, the company outlined that the BPI-M4 Zero would utilise the Allwinner H618, a low-powered chipset equipped with four ARM Cortex-A53 CPU cores and a Mali-G31 GPU. Also, the 65 x 30 mm features the following I/O

• 1x 3-pin debug UART (3.3V) header
• 1x 24-pin Misc FPC (100 Mbps Ethernet, USB 2.0 etc.)
• 1x 40-pin GPIO header (Raspberry Pi compatible)
• 1x Mini HDMI 2.0a (4K/60 FPS)
• 1x MicroSD card slot
• 2x USB 2.0 Type-C port (1x OTG port)

Additionally, the BPI-M4 Zero offers Bluetooth 4.2 and WiFi 5 connectivity through an onboard module, plus LPDDR4 RAM and eMMC flash storage. Moreover, Banana Pi states that it intends to offer an Ubuntu Desktop image for the BPI-M4 Zero, which it will publish on the device's wiki. As CNX Software notes, the similarities between the BPI-M4 Zero and Orange Pi Zero 2W mean that the latter's OS images should work on the former, too.