Or they are waiting for more devices to arrive. It appears that the L-14 has landed
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G o r g e o u s!
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possibly the Librem5 USA devices have priority now, and the others are continued later on ? Just speculationâŚ
Yes, and Purism said in the post that they want to reach shipping parity for the L14 â ⌠as soon as possible and with the help of some overtime we have an internal goal to ship through all existing orders in May,â
I am encouraged by the shipping announcement of the Librem 14. I havenât ordered one. But this announcement about the Librem 14 tells me that Purism doesnât live or die based on how quickly they can ship out Librem 5âs.
Also, I have been extremely disappointed since late 2019 because I pre-ordered a Librem 5 in early 2019 and didnât get it in 2019. However, that disappointment is fading now also, despite the fact that I havenât received my Librem 5 yet.
As I read the posts in this forum about the Librem 5, I see that between now and the time that I receive my Librem 5, the software development will only get better. I was initially unhappy when I first realized that I wasnât in the Aspen or Birch group. In retrospect, I likely wouldnât have been happy with either of those phones. Although I would like to receive my Librem 5 today, if instead I get it three to six months from now, I might be happier with it then, than I would be if I were to receive it now. To come out of the box and go right in to my daily digital life the same day as a daily driver is more likely to happen if I get it later than sooner. So as long as I see others receiving their Librem 5âs here on this forum, Iâme good for now. Maybe by the time I get my Librem 5, Itâll be more like the Samsung experience than the beta-tester experience.
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Just to add my data here, I ordered Sept 28 2017 and got my tracking number March 19 last month.
The software does seem to be slowly but steadily improving. I believe an update yesterday brought an auto screen rotation mode which is really nice.
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I ordered Jan 19th, 2021. I understood that i would not receive it quickly as others had placed orders all the way back to 2017 and that this was a product in development. I would appreciate a ball park 3-month range estimate of when I will likely receive the device. Will I get it in Q3 of this year? Will be be early 2022?
Yeah, I am in agreement that the delayâs arenât all bad given that a lot of software must still be written.
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I recommend that we be patient and gracious, given the magnitude of such an ambitious project.
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I ordered back when Purism first announced the shipping of the Aspen batch. I told myself âok, theyâre shipping. I can place my order nowâ. I think that may be back sometime between June and September of 2019. Itâs been long enough that I forgot exactly when.
My plan at the time was to cancel and get a refund through my credit card company if I didnât have my phone within three months. But as I tracked the development process on this forum, I realized that there was notable progress as a few backers started receiving their phones, while also realizing that the Aspen batch was not anywhere close to being ready for mainstream release. So I didnât mind the delay and extended my deadline-or-cancel date another three months. Iâve done the same every few months since then.
If not for this forum and Purismâs successful release of other products (Librem Mini and a few new laptops), I would have lost faith and wanted a refund before now. People complain about Purismâs retroactive change of refund policy. Ok. Thatâs not good. But I understand why they did it. People are still getting their phones.
Overall, during the entire three years or so that I have been following Purism and this forum, I have had my own complaints (mostly related to how Purism communicates or does not communicate with us) and have read many complaints from others here. But I have never seen a complaint here that claimed that someone paid for product and that Purism didnât ship and then denied that they owed the customer anything at some point in the future (they never took the money and run).
Meanwhile, I see posts here from people who have questions about their Librem products that Purism did ship to them. One guy here did go through the courts in his country to get a refund from Purism. So I tell myself âOk, Purism did pay up. They plan to stay in businessâ. So despite my initial plans, I have more confidence now than I did almost two years ago when I pre-ordered, that I will eventually receive my phone. The shipping volume seems to be increasing now. More people are getting their phones at a faster rate now. Some people here on this forum who were waiting in line just like me a few months ago, have received and are very happy with their new Librem 5 now. They just made their purchase a few years earlier than I made mine.
I anticipate getting a one-of-a-kind phone that you canât get anywhere else, including from Pine. So as of today, itâs still worth the wait. I am starting to consider if I might want to order another Librem 5 now, before I even receive my first one. Once the product performance rivals that of a phone from Samsung or LG, everyone will want one. If Purism starts getting orders for tens of thousands of phones every month, the wait might actually get longer for those at the end of the line at that time. I wouldnât want to wait another two years to receive my second Librem 5. I have family members that would use them too. And I donât mind doing their tech support myself, given that theyâre not all Linux literate.
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Iâm not seeing that yet. Maybe itâs in Byzantium. I would suppose it will come through to mainstream (Amber) soon though. ??
I ordered Sept 2019 so they are about two years behind. Not saying it will take two years to deliver.
But today I ordered a Pinephone figuring that my L5 is still a way off. Just my need to play with a Linux phone.
In reality I donât expect my L5 in 2021. I see nothing in the posts or the state of the world to hearten me Iâm afraid.
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I am using the time as I wait to for my L5 to restructure my digital life so that the arrival of the L5 will complete the process.
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A bit off topic, but: Can you elaborate on that? What exactly do you change right now? No more Windows PC? Secure/privatcy oriented E-Mail provider? Etc.?
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Can you please start a new thread with such questions/discussion? Thanks
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For me, it was seeing the dev work on Phosh that convinced me to not cancel my order. I see Phosh as the most viable path to mobile Linux become a working alternative to Android.
My initial reaction in 2017 was âtoo expensiveâ and âIâll never pay over $200 for a phone.â The more I studied the problem of planned obsolescence and surveillance capitalism, the more I thought âif I really care about these problems, I have to be willing to finance the changeâ, so I preordered in Jan 2019. I expected to get the phone by the end of 2019.
The more I studied the challenges facing mobile Linux, however, the more I realized the long-term importance of financing the dev work, and the less I worried about the final product or when I would get it. It has certainly been an evolution in my thinking. I didnât understand how limited were the hardware options and I didnât understand why Purism decided to create Phosh. The more I learned, the more I have realized the challenges that Purism faces. I studied why previous Linux phones failed and that gave me a much better appreciation for why Purism designed the L5 the way that it did.
My plan was to buy the Librem 5 and PineTab, but I donât have any idea when my Librem 5 will arrive and the March update made it sound like there would be no PineTab in 2021, so I gave up waiting and ordered the PinePhone when the Beta was announced.
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I am also interested in the pinetab but its out of stock as you say. No pinetab in 2021 is disappointing. More wait.
The April Update says that PINE64 is now planning to try to do a PineTab batch:
As for the PineTab, weâve made it no secret that weâre prioritizing PinePhone production at this time. With very few available components, including the A64 SoC itself currently in short supply, we are opting to produce the much more popular device. Furthermore, if we were to open PineTab pre-orders at this time, it would have to be at a much higher price-point, which I believe makes for a far less attractive proposition. With all that said, we will seek to seize a window for a production opportunity opening this summer, and we will attempt to produce another batch of PineTabs. At present time it is impossible to tell if we will succeed in securing all the necessary components, negotiate sensible pricing, and ultimately offer the PineTab at an attractive price-point.
Before I close this section off, I want to make it abundantly clear that while this is the outlook as of today, April 15th 2021, and it is a subject to change. While the situation may seem less than ideal, it may change any day. The situation is so dynamic that everything I wrote above may be completely invalid in a day, week, or monthâs time. Stay tuned for updates.
Seeing these kinds of announcements from other companies makes me more tolerant of the delays in shipping the Librem 5.
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Meanwhile Purism continues with the lie: âPlace your order now, get it in a few months!â Same shit since Nov. 2020. Thatâs way I try to not get a Librem 5 anymore by trying to sell my pre-order. They canât estimate my pre-order from 2018, but itâs a âfew monthsâ if you order today. Ha!
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