Orange Pi 800 to give Raspberry Pi 400 some competition with a Rockchip RK3399 SoC and 4 GB of RAM
Orange Pi has introduced the Orange Pi 800, its version of the Raspberry Pi 400. Like many of Orange Pi's Raspberry Pi alternatives, the Orange Pi 800 is a single-board computer attached to a keyboard. Accordingly, you only need an external monitor to use the Orange Pi 800, or a mouse if needed. As Orange Pi's marketing images show, the Orange Pi 800 contains a 6-row keyboard with half-sized directional keys and three status LEDs.
Additionally, the Orange Pi 800 relies on the Rockchip RK3399, a chipset with two ARM Cortex-A72 CPU cores, followed by four Cortex-A53 cores and a Mali-T860 GPU. Also, the Orange Pi 800 has 4 GB of LPDDR4 RAM, 64 GB of eMMC flash storage and a host of I/O. Specifically, Orange Pi equips the device with the following connectivity and ports:
- 1x 26-pin GPIO header
- 1x 3.5 mm combo jack
- 1x Gigabit Ethernet
- 1x HDMI 2.0
- 1x microSD card reader
- 1x speaker
- 1x USB 2.0 Type-A
- 2x USB 3.0 Type-A
- 1x USB Type-C (power only)
- 1x VGA
- WiFi 5/Bluetooth 5.0 LTE
Moreover, the Orange Pi 800 measures 286 x 122 x 22 mm and weighs 385 g. Currently, Orange Pi has not confirmed when the Orange Pi 800 will be available. However, Liliputing notes that the Orange Pi 800 should compete with the Raspberry Pi 400, which retails for around US$70. Supposedly, the Orange Pi 800 will support Orange Pi OS (Arch Linux), as well as Chromium OS.
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Orange Pi via CNX Software & Liliputing
