" Dear Veleno Your contribution to Purism is continuously advancing the cause of greater freedom, privacy and security for the world. With the Librem 5 and PureOS we are creating a future where our alternative to big tech empire is a growing reality. It is with your initial support that we were ab…

[image] Caliga: “our entry level phone costs more than the latest iPhone” To be fair, Pinephone is the entry level, whereas Librem 5 has always been presented as a “high-end” GNU/Linux phone.

[image] Jt0: I thought they weren’t supposed to start shipping until October. Shipping starting this month is excellent news. Not trying to ding Purism here as I’ve been holding onto my current phone for 5 years due to delays, but given there hasn’t been a blog post about pulling in a month, …

[image] amosbatto: There are some people who will pay any price, but most people start to do a calculation of practical utility, and they can’t justify that price for just a phone Yes. I hope that some of that price increase is temporary on account of the global chip shortage. Otherwise $130…

[image] irvinewade: Some people would be reluctant to generate that much electronics waste however. Maybe for some. But it’s not unusual for people to buy a new phone every three years.

The Ubuntu BQ E4.5 phone (which is my daily driver) is from 2015, and I cross fingers that it will survive until my L5 is coming to my hands.

[image] L5 for elite and PP for peasants Librem 5 L5 is for the elite and PinePhone is for peasants aka students. slight_smile #TakeItWithAGrainOfSalt

[image] veleno: As previously announced, we will be increasing prices for all new orders of the Librem 5 in stages (the phone will be priced at $1199 from all orders received on or after Nov 1st, 2021 and we expect this price to go upward to $1299 in March 2022) as component prices change and as…

[image] Photon: Makes me wish that I had bought two… selling one would have bought my phone and put money in my pocket! Go find a time machine for us will you.

Dude I would like to know your experience with that phone. I once bought the BQ Aquarius tablet with Ubuntu. It was the worst Linux experience I had in my life.

I’m starting to feel like they don’t want to sell the phones. Maybe they have been pressured by big tech or gov’ts to not make this? Maybe i’m just being paranoid because I ordered in 2018 and I haven’t received a phone yet. Does the cell service work in the USA yet? They were having FCC issues…

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Hardware Librem 5

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