Purism Shares The Latest Librem 5 Smartphone Progress - Dev Kits Going Out Soon

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Purism Shares The Latest Librem 5 Smartphone Progress - Dev Kits Going Out Soon

Purism has shared the latest details on their efforts to deliver the open-source Linux Librem 5 smartphone to market in 2019...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Librem-5-October-15-2018

[lectrode]

I applaud the Purism devs for their steady progress on this. I'd much rather wait a while longer for a phone done right than get a partially complete phone on-time. As long as they keep going like this, I believe they will succeed where others have failed.

[dkasak]

My phone is on its last legs ... hoping this can be my next one ...

[tildearrow]

Somebody please change that keyboard and top bar font...

[lilos]

Perfect work !! I wish them risc-v phone in the future !

[SpyroRyder]

Perfect work !! I wish them risc-v phone in the future !

Just as soon as they release a riskv CPU that is actually comparable to most Arm cores

[Guest]

Kudos to them for still not having given up on doing touch with a suboptimal toolkit. I guess sometimes the harder road can be more fun.

[Spazturtle]

Indeed. Besides the far past, i also hooked into a firefox os LTE open thing. /facepalm

You joke but 'Boot To Gecko' (Firefox OS, now KaiOS) is fast becoming the 2nd largest mobile OS in the 3rd world having overtaken iOS.

[Danielsan]

I bet the reason why FirefoxOS wasn't a good choice is because the Firefox patents

[Flaburgan]

Firefox OS was awesome. It's a shame Mozilla stopped it when it was finally becoming usable.