He hates Purism
Hi,
I stopped watching this video when a shoe hijacked my screen …
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I’ll see your “BSD” and raise with “42” 
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all the better then xD
Yeah, seems like the software was never updated and that phone was still running the image from November (the video also showed issues like jumpy scrolling in gtk that are long gone by now).
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Because of how fast this device’s OS is being built, I can’t trust a review of this product. Any recent, comprehensive view of the product?
Edit: Please do not link me to a hackergame video as there is clearly a conflict of interest with him working for the company.
Not that I’ve seen around no, though I’d love to be proven wrong!
If you want to see it in operation, watch Purism’s videos, including the First Walkthrough.
If you want information on how well it works, keep reading the Librem5 forum. There are also first impressions on reddit.
Sure. Check back in two months for a review covering the current software state 
Seriously though, Purism is not to blame if they don’t update. Write Anthony to re-do his video…
Hey, marketing department, free slogan suggestion:
“Order your Librem 5 now - the only phone that gets updated faster than reviewers can keep up with!”
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Exactly lol
To be fair: I’m not a nerd and L5 in current stage it is all I need. I just hate how big tech companies (and pro surveillance politicians) are acting. And I hate what potential of technology is wasted by common products.
Again, I want an in depth review, not ‘first impressions’. Even if such a thing came from purism, I would ignore it and wait for an independent reviewer due to the bias the company would have about their products so they would try to show it to be better than it is. Same reason I wouldn’t trust an apple device just because apple said it’s all good.
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Pretty gud.
get Apple’s CEO to do an in-depth-review of the El Cinque … that’ll take balls
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I agree that would be better, but so far even established Linux reviewers who have the phone in their hands haven’t done an in-depth dive into it. They’ve only either shown it coming out of its pretty box and praised it up and down just because it exists, or expressed confusion and disappointment after only a few taps without even, apparently, having done any research on the device first, or even downloaded the latest updates for it.
Right now the owners in this forum are probably the best source of detailed information. And Purism’s videos are the only in-depth presentation by video of its features. So what I’m saying is, start with that while we’re still waiting for an actual review to materialize on the internet. Because you, the potential buyer, need to inform yourself about it prior to the review, just as the reviewer needs to know all about it before reviewing it.
Hopefully the first such review will be from someone who understands the purpose of this phone, and not just someone who questions why we need another mobile OS on the planet.
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I think what I’d want is a techi to review it after only hearing of free software a little and never hearing of the product yet and compare pros and cons on a chart after x amount of usage on phone’s A, B and C. I’d also want someone that’s been living under a rock to try out each and being told by someone the philosophy behind each.
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I don’t know what that means rec 
El Cinque is L5 (El five < L5 < Librem 5) … 
Depends, are you trying to emulate Spanish or Italian?
Spanish would be Ele cinco.
Italian would be Il cinque.
I suspect Spanish, but if you wanted to add a definite article it would be “El ele cinco” which sounds odd even in Spanish but is more correct.
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I suspect that we won’t get decent reviews until some of the people on this forum start to get the L5.
I’ve decided that I am going to have to write my own review when I get the phone, because none of the reviewers seem to care about the issues that I find so fascinating about the phone, like how it is designed to fight planned obsolescence, how unique is the design of Phosh, how it is the most innovative phone since 2014, and how it uses 6 chips instead of one integrated mobile SoC.
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