Librem 5 Will Begin Shipping In The Weeks Ahead, But Varying Quality Over Months Ahead

[Danielsan]

They may have underestimated the effort to create a phone from scratch without the necessary know-how, however this is the most promising "pure" Linux phone we have seen so far, they are also building a ecosystem around it which is not secondary in terms of importance. This may be the corner stone to get rid off for ever of any crappy Android-like OSes that exist just to spy on you...

[144Hz]

brent Purism is a social purpose company. And you hate them for doing what NO ONE ELSE have done before.

You are the choosing beggar+600USD.

[Toggleton]

maybe for People to better understand what the Motivation and challenges are to build the Librem 5 watch that talk about it https://media.ccc.de/v/Camp2019-1023..._freedom#t=682

[brent]

brent Purism is a social purpose company. And you hate them for doing what NO ONE ELSE have done before.

I don't hate them, but they are quite frankly doing a bad job. They've been overpromising and underdelivering from the very start of the Librem 5 project. The marketing is dishonest ("shipping adjustments", this paper launch, etc.) and they have very little else to show. Apart from a few tinkerer nerds, most people that preordered actually expect a working phone. And they won't get it, at least not any time soon. This will unfortunately all get back to Purism and it will be hard for them to recover.

[tildearrow]

WTF? So you paid 600 USD and what you'll likely get is a shoddily made prototype. Are you serious, Purism? This is ridiculous.

Exactly. We should give them a little more time to ensure the build quality will be consistent and the model final.

[retardxfce]

brent Nobody cares about your 600 USD. Freedom and Privacy is paid with effort and principles.

You must be naive if you think that this company truly cares about privacy, instead of robbing you blind selling you buggy, insecure and very far from privacy protecting snake oil.

[retardxfce]

brent Purism is a social purpose company. And you hate them for doing what NO ONE ELSE have done before.

You are the choosing beggar+600USD.

Purisms target audience are gullible autists who will gobble up any supposed ""privacy"" snake oil.

[Barry]

I don't hate them, but they are quite frankly doing a bad job. They've been overpromising and underdelivering from the very start of the Librem 5 project. The marketing is dishonest ("shipping adjustments", this paper launch, etc.) and they have very little else to show. Apart from a few tinkerer nerds, most people that preordered actually expect a working phone. And they won't get it, at least not any time soon. This will unfortunately all get back to Purism and it will be hard for them to recover.

"Dishonest" may be overstating the case. But Purism's announcement feels like a student trying to talk their way out of an Incomplete on a project, rather than a professional response to the difficulties it's found itself in with this product.

[danmcgrew]

brent Nobody cares about your 600 USD. Freedom and Privacy is paid with effort and principles.

You are absolutely wrong. HE cares!

And, for your information, 'Freedom' and 'Privacy' is also paid for with a $160.00 payment to the Pine Group, for the PinePhone.

[Leopard]

Lol , such a meme. If you want to throw your money to thrash , buy this phone.