I would love a Linux phone but so far graphene OS is the way.
What’s not to like about a device sporting a 5 year old CPU paired with a 720p display and 4GB of RAM costing 2.2k usd?
Holy shit
I’m not sure why anyone would buy a Linux phone from Purism these days. Buying one from Pine64 seems like a better option in every way.
I’d love to use Linux on my smartphone, but unfortunately it isn’t viable yet and I’ll keep using Android instead :/
I don’t see anyone addressing what should be the main concern: purism as a long history of internal toxicity and screws up. There were problem and their CTO left a long time ago, since then everything went downhill. Their communication is also one of the worse I’ve seen. They don’t mind lying, it feels borderline scam sometimes.
Whatever the price and the alleged goal I would not get behind a shady organization.
Nothing is perfect but Purism has been way passed the limits for me a long time ago.
This is a tragedy.
All the electronics of the Liberty Phone are made in our USA facility, and the entire phone is assembled at that same facility.
I suppose that this is the reason for the high price. It’s built all in one single factory in the US (I was too lazy to research if it’s their factory). I hope that their target groups are real and that they can afford the phone.
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One of my harder earned life lessons is it’s structurally impossible to run a company that develops and sells a product based on this kind of soft values and buying devices from them is almost always a recipe for disappointment. It doesn’t even have to be the fault of the company (though it often is)
As someone who was personally accosted by them (2 years until they traded my Librem 5 order to a “NUC” that I would’ve gotten cheaper somewhere else), I find it important to always notify people to approach this company with a caution - ESPECIALLY if you’re not an American. It’s like that South Park skit with the cable company.
Shows you how much we have been taking china for granted 😂 Shit is very expensive when made in the US of A.
- entry-level Librem 5 sells for $1,299
- made-in-the-USA model $1,999
- Liberty Phone also made-in-the-USA with more memory & storage $2,199
Lmao. At this point buy any android phone and just put a custom ROM on it.
For $1,800 I will personally install a custom ROM on your phone.
I think the appeal was supposed to be all drivers are open source. where as even with custom roms, you still have proprietary firmware blobs that must be updated by the manufacturer to prevent any exploits
This is just ridiculous. $2200 for a phone with only 4GB Ram.
Bummer, I thought people on Lemmy might be excited. I agree its pricey but voting with your wallet isn’t always cheap. (Typed from my Librem 5 :))
