Purism electronics is so nice, they must not be manufactured clandestinely with low quality. This damages Purism is reputation in the long and short term.
I would like to work for Purism in the area of Luxology, to make Purism is electronics unique in both hardware and software. Of course zero tolerance for open-source. Will expensive? yes, but it will like a gold device.
Librem 11 is was a full shame.
Librem 14, L5 is a shame. My L14 is bad soundind when i openning, maybe something broke, Also leak light from hks leds. The body is a Apple clone, sadly. The keyboard is super cheaper, low performance.
Librem 5 ship a super cheaper back cover with a Apple sim tray, phosh desing like android and ios. This makes me super nervous for L5 v2 because it could integrate a open-source Apple-style Notch into the display and as far i know phosh already ship apple-notch feature.
Somehow I thought this thread was going to be a political statement, written by a third party questioning and shaming Purism for making their hardware in the United States (inspired by recent global negativity towards the States), rather than a celebratory AI-generated blog post piece about how great Purism is that I didn’t bother to read. I wonder why I thought that.
L5v1 was going to get a notch, but people complained about, so Purism decided to not include notches. Phosh is no longer a Purism project and has to deal with different kind of devices. Unlike Librem 5, most other supported devices are smartphones running PostmarketOS or a Mobian fork (with halium or how it is called). Some have notches, so Phosh had to support it. It has nothing to do with Purism or Librem 5. And support does not mean it has to be used. I will always argue against notches.
These are two completely unrelated things.