Just curios I order normal L5 on 29Dec 2019. I understand that we are in COVID19 epidemic period. Then I only want to know my batch not the delivery date time
Thanks
I ordered my L5 in March 2019, and I am in Evergreen, which last I saw is scheduled to start shipping in August.
If you ordered in December 2019, you are probably in Evergreen as well.
3 Likes
With all respect for the company and the employees, with all the love I have for the idea of open source, to answer the initial question, the oracle of Delphi would be needed. 
1 Like
For anyone else having the same question, you can send an email to: support@puri.sm with your order number to ask that information.
I recently emailed Purism and they reassigned by batch preference to Fir as requested . Is there any even ballpark projected shipping estimate ? ie hopefully march 2021 or something similar ?
honestly iām surprised you are willing to wait that long with this frigginā lockdown anā all ā¦ i think iām going to send support an email asking to transfer my Firs to be all Evergreen (a few of them shouldnāt be that hard to move i assume)
to me 2021 seems like a distant dream right now ā¦ iāll maybe wait for a few more dogwood updates before i commit.
See , August to me right now at the earliest seems to be a distant dream.
Covid may mutate and turn us all into the walking dead. Or global supply chain collapses and mad max land ensues. Or perhaps china hits us with an EMP and sends us back to the stone age then invades and enslaves us all.
So , August 2020 or may of 2021 , both seem to me at this point to be something I may possibly never see.
And i already bought these two worthless motorolas soā¦ I figure fir 2.0 will be a present for surviving 2020 * IF * that happens.
1 Like
Basically, unless you were a very early backer or asked for Fir, you are slated for Evergreen. Our first few batches are not large due to testing and cost.
2 Likes
Yea , I requested Fir and was told my batch preference had been reassigned to fir via purism ops email.
Iām from October 2017 
I would have asked for dogwood
Evergreen, join the club. Sep ā17 here
I placed my order on Oct 22nd 2017, and havenāt heard/seen anything regarding what batch Iām inā¦
The people that have received their phones, what date was your preorder?
What is the consensus nowā¦Is it better to get the phone earlier, or wait longer for a better more refined product? Iām not sure if I should get an earlier version, or wait at this point?
Better to wait.
Very much looking forward to my Evergreen phone If Fir is a lot better than Evergreen, I might trade up, buy a Fir and sell the Evergreen for whatever I can get for it.
Personally, I think there will be some value in these early Linux phones.
Now, if the world ends in 2020 or 2021, the last thing Iāll worry about is the phone. In a zombie apocalypse-type situation, I think coffee beans will be like gold 
1 Like
time to grab the book of Eli then ā¦ 
1 Like
I looks like most people will keep their orders for Evergreen, although some have decided to postpone till Fir. See this post for differences between the i.MX 8M Quad in Evergreen and the i.MX 8M Plus in Fir.
There will still be a lot of software issues when Evergreen is released, and if that bothers you, then you might as well wait for Fir. Purism hasnāt said whether it will add more RAM or flash memory in Fir, but I donāt think that i.MX 8M Plus adds enough to justify waiting another year and I donāt mind being an early adopter that deals with software bugs.
1 Like
I backed this as a project because it has the potential to add value to the world, even though it means that I am taking on some risk about functionality and performance.
If I werenāt looking to do that then I would probably wait until āV1.0ā is available as a normally orderable product (i.e. not pre-order, just order!), and then also wait and see what people are saying. Right now you are looking at a product that is still being developed and improved - so noone knows exactly what it will be like.
Waiting for a future tech product is a bit of a mugās game. It is near certain that ānext yearās modelā will always be better. āGrevilleaā might be worth holding off for if you are thinking of getting āFirā. Not.
Better is to look at why you want the phone? what do you want it for? ā¦ and then decide if the released, orderable phone meets those requirements. (For hypothetical example, if the camera at Evergreen is not working very well and taking photographs or videos is very important to you then holding off could be indicated.)
One complication is āpriceā. People who backed the original project or pre-ordered may be being afforded the luxury of sliding into āFirā at no change of price. There is no guarantee about the future price of āEvergreenā or the future price of āFirā, or the future price of later generations. This is doubly so if ordering outside the US, where the exchange rate is an additional wildcard.
1 Like
is that a pun or play on words ? 
Donāt you afraid that. Price will go up?