Why does the Librem 5 cost so much more than the Pinephone?

[amosbatto]

@Torrone

For the screen resolution, this is explained by the gpu capabilities and power consumption of the SoC.
And so on and so forth.

Fair point on the i.MX 6, but 32 GB of Flash was considered a low amount of memory in 2017 for a $600 phone and that isn’t limited by the i.MX 6 processor. Within a few months after launching the campaign, Purism knew that it would use the i.MX 8M and its specs were listed as “RAM: 3 GB minimum (subject to change)” until recently, so Purism was considering providing more RAM, and decided against it. That indicates to me that Purism is economically constrained. Also, the GC7000Lite GPU can handle a 1080p screen.