Pinephone:
Economical and good value for money, because outsourcing software development to community, adapting its existing A64 board, and selecting older components with existing Linux support.
“Low cost and good value for money, because software development is outsourced to the community (volunteers).”
Linux phone most ready for daily use today with UBports and 14 hours of battery life in standby mode.
This is already pretty outdated. AFAIK it survives 4 days on suspend, which is indeed an advantage, but not for very long I think. Daily use is not really an advantage over Librem 5 anymore in my opinion. If you follow that logic than suspend on Pinephone prevents reliable incoming calls, timers or alarms, whereas on Librem 5 all that works.
Pine64 supports community software development with a $10 donation per phone to the OS projects and the hardware helps projects attract more volunteers.
No longer true since Beta Edition.
Support a company that is transparent, community-based, and doesn’t over-promise in its PR.
Purism indeed often over-promise, but calling it non-transparent is a stretch to say the least.
active community for help
Both phones have an active community now. I would say “larger community” instead.
I would also add the following as the first reason for both phones:
See innovations above.
(and those innovations should be just above “Reasons to buy”, while “Future versions” should be somewhere below)
Librem 5:
Trying to fight planned obsolescence with lifetime software updates, upstreaming code to parent projects for long-term support, using a well-maintained GTK/GNOME stack, replaceable WiFi/BT and cellular modem on M.2 cards, and an SoC manufacturer that promises 10 years of production and contributes to the mainline Linux kernel for future updates.
Should be:
“Trying to fight planned obsolescence with (1) lifetime software updates, (2) upstreaming code, (3) using a well-maintained GTK/GNOME stack, (4) replaceable WiFi/BT and cellular modem, and (5) an SoC manufacturer that promises 10 years of production and contributes to the mainline Linux kernel for future updates.”
Better privacy with accessible hardware kill switches, software switches to turn off GNSS and individual sensors, customized web browser preconfigured for privacy, and optional Librem One web services.
AFAIK Pinephone also has software switches. I think that advantage of Gnome Web over Firefox is questionable. Librem One servies can be used on Pinephone, too. I suggest this:
"Better privacy with accessible hardware kill switches, lockdown mode to turn off GNSS and all sensors, OS preconfigured for privacy, and optional AweSim service in the USA.
Better convergence in the long run
It already has a better convergence, since it’s faster, so “in the long run” is unnecessary.