AliExpress just got the O-Pi 0 + 2, and is selling them for $19.90 with $3.35 shipping, for a total of $23.25. Depending on the original price being $23.99 without shipping, its just a few pennies short in savings. With shipping, the price would have been $26. But still...
This is more expensive than some of their mid-priced boards. But for a tiny board, that does a lot, I'm up in the air about this.
https://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/Orange-Pi-Zero-Plus-2-H5-Quad-core-Blue
tooth-mini-PC-Beyond-Raspberry-Pi-2-Wholesale/1553371_32801249806.html
Interesting though, The Banana Pi (Chinese branch) is coming back and released the Banana Pi M2+. The B-Pi M2 is a update on its B-Pi M1 (which I have 2 of) and fixes a few things in the Bios and uses a quad CPU (The M1 uses a Dual CPU).
The B-Pi M2+ how ever is tiny like the O-Pi 0 / 0 + 2. But how they designed it brings more out of the board. The O-Pi 0 (all versions) have the older R-Pi 26 pin GPIO, the B-Pi M2+ has the newer 40 pin GPIO by extending the GPIO past the mounting holes of the board. This makes it a tiny bit wider than the O-Pi 0 but for more GPIO, it is worth it.
The problem is it's price: $33. But you get with it?
H3 Quad Core CPU (32/64 bit, standard on most low to mid priced boards)
the Mali 400 GPU running at 600MHZ (everyone else runs it at 400MHz)
1GB of RAM, shared with the GPU
10/100/1000 Ethernet
802.11 b/g/n Wifi; but no Bluetooth
SD Card Slot, SATA Hard drive port (supports up to 2TB) and 8GB Flash RAM
2 USB Ports and 1 USB-OTG mini port
HDMI
and 40 Pin GPIO.
It's basically a B-Pi M1/M2 shrunk down in size with FlashRAM added and the SATA Drive improved from 1TB to 2TB. It is a lot more board for $10 more than the price of the O-PI 0 + 2.
Only thing unclear is the CPU Speed but if things are equal across the board with other H3 CPU board, I'm guessing its a 1.2GHz GPU with a max overclock speed of 1.6GHz. In short, it would require heat sinks.
In the past I love Banana Pi, but since both Lemaker and the Chinese gov't fought about its development and forced the creation of the Orange Pi in China, community and software support is very lacking for the B-Pi's in general. I'm just lucky to get things going with my B-Pies years ago. But with the release of the new Banana Pies, means that B-Pi is coming back. Except for the CPU, the B-Pi M2+ is geared to a high end system with its hard drive SATA port. Thing is, it can not boot from the hard drive but use it as a storage device.
Here is AliExpress' webpage on the B-Pi M2:
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/H3-Quad-Core-MiNi-A7-SoC-BPI-M2-Plus-Banana-Pi-M
2-development-board/1000001991550.html