It's their first phone and they have a lot of requirements to be able to be as libre as they can, give them a break.
The reason why I backed this project is because I want to see a open source mobile operating system which you can actually contribute to.
The fact that it will run upstream code will also mean that it could technically be supported forever in comparison to android phones which get updates in just 1-2 years which is simply horrible. Hell, even the nexus phones which are supposed to have good software support only get 3 years support!
If this succeeds and is still available in 3 years, this is our best bet on "real" convergence.
Personally I'd still like to have my desktop for performance, but to dock it into a laptop with just battery+screen+keyboard+trackpad would be really neat.
Everything could probably even be sent through a USB-C port with thunderbolt/usb3.1.
I wouldn't mind a RISC-V variant of the Librem 5 in the future either

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