Librem 5 USA shipping

I ordered the Librem 5 on January 5, 2019, and then my order was upgraded to the Librem 5 USA on June 9, 2021.

However, I don’t think that my order date is representative. I wrote Purism an email at the beginning of this month and explained that a friend was traveling from the US to Bolivia on July 26 and asked whether the phone would be shipped by then. Purism said that the phone probably wouldn’t be ready to ship by then, and then my friend changed her travel plans. It was a real surprise when I got the email today saying that the phone had been shipped. I suspect that Purism decided to include my order in the first batch to ship, since I have been adding content to the community wiki.

Unfortunately, it turns out that I won’t end up getting the phone until October, but hopefully I can still answer some of people’s questions since I’ll have ssh access. I also have a PinePhone plugged in at my parent’s house with ssh access, so I will be able to benchmark the two phones.

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