Testing the Librem 5 would count as compassionate grounds in order to get a visa in these days of COVID, wouldn’t it? 
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hi kieran I was asking about the UK.
very good question deedend, I am not aware of anyone who has done any reviews that is not a employee, reviewer, blogger or influencer and so on?
Whats the issue in Australia?
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as soon as they hear that the motive for travel is to test the L5 they BAN you immediately … if it was for some other phone then we might have a different conversation … 
what ?
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Unfortunately the Librem 5 modem (well, at least one year ago when the batches were announced) isn’t fully compatible with the Australian network, so I had to cancel my pledge (and I got a full refund). I bought a Pinephone instead, it has a modem that include all the required bands for Australia and Europe.
Maybe the modem issue was a good thing after all, I would have been still waiting for my phone at this stage!
Maybe try to necro this topic: Any UK users of the Librem 5?
and tag in some of the people who responded in that topic in case they a) are in the UK, and b) have by now received a phone.
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I tihnk you have a catch-22 situation here: the moment someone writes about their Librem 5 on their blog or whatever, I suppose that person becomes a “blogger” so then, you will never be satisfied. 
Let me try anyway, here are some links:
https://azdle.net/2019/11/librem-5-unboxing/
I could also tell you about my own second-hand-bought Librem 5 Birch, but – if I do that, will that turn me into an influencer? I want to keep being a normal person (or a normal turtle in my case). 
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If I recall for Australia we had one customer who got Chestnut (am I on the right tree?). And he was happy with the European modem. Granted it didn’t cover the B28 band, but it worked fine for him. I’m in for Evergreen at this time and will go with the European option meaning I won’t get mobile coverage at home which doesn’t worry me at all.
I will say that the lack of having the variant that did cover the B28 band is a big disappointment seeing as though at one point it was under consideration.
what a nasty word that is …
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Search is your friend: Observatons with the Chestnut batch - Librem 5 received Jan 2020
I’m still trying to work out whether an “observaton” is some kind of quantum particle. 
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Observaton, once you observe it, it disappears.
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If you think it’s enough to have a Librem 5 to become an influencer, well, maybe you’re right: it’s such a rare thing that probably you’ll become famous, at least inside this community! 
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Sure, that’s cool but how about simply a whitelist? That is, only callers in your address book are actually put through; others are sent to voicemail.
[edit] Actually, it would probably be better if the call was just ignored so that it would only go to voicemail after they wait through some ringing.
I would love it as this:
- Whitelist options
- Anything not on whitelist is prompted to enter numbers as in this video
- Blacklist to outright block certain numbers
I find that marketers and robo-callers are not inclined to leave a voicemail. If someone not in my address book really wants to talk to me then they’ll leave a voicemail.
I wish that were the case for me. I get two or three voicemails of the second half of a recording of a robo voice each week when I ignore numbers I don’t recognize. Either it’s my “local Google Plus Specialist” or some Mandarin Chinese robot voice saying who knows what :).
But a simple whitelist would be by far much easier to implement than this I would think.
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