Librem 5 - Your True Linux Phone

[Ink]

Homepage: Librem 5 – Purism
Pre-Order: Librem 5 – Purism

Here are some benefits and key differentiators of the Librem 5, the world’s first ever IP-native mobile handset and the only user-respecting mobile phone product offering on the market:

• Privacy protection by default, instead your profile and data being products sold to the highest bidder.
• Does not use Android or iOS. The Librem 5 comes with the mobile version of our FSF-endorsed operating system PureOS by default, and is expected to be able to run most GNU+Linux distributions.
• CPU separate from baseband, isolating the blackbox that the modem may represent and allowing us to seek hardware certification of the main board by the Free Software Foundation.
• Hardware Kill Switches for camera, microphone, WiFi/Bluetooth, and baseband.
• End-to-end encrypted decentralized communications via Matrix over the Internet.
• We also intend the Librem 5 to integrate with the Librem Key security token in the future.

About PureOS for Mobile
PureOS – a pure Linux phone experience – Purism

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@ZeroDay posted about it here - unsure as to why it's under Mobile Configs..

 

[ZeroDay]

My apologies for posting it in the wrong section. The project however is a go. I can't wait to get one just to get my geek on lol.

 

[93803123]

Most of the people who are clamoring for Librem 5 are Free and Open-Source advocates.

The phone is meant more to execute an ideology and live by that philosophy. It is not meant to compete with the likes of Android, iPhone or other hardware. A 4 year old Samsung Galaxy will blow the Librem 5 out of the water in terms of hardware performance and the softs that Librem 5 will ship with or be available are limited.

 

[Thales]

700$... Wow

 

[93803123]

700$... Wow

Cheaper than the $5000 Samsung Galaxy Fold and with hardware specifications that are 3 to 5 years old.

Heck, even their laptops use i7 7500U which was released in 2016. Now given that its running a Linux distro, in the vast majority of cases that CPU will be adequate. However, they slapped a 4K panel on the thing - LOL - which most everyone knows 4K on a laptop makes no sense except for multi-media pros. It's all using older hardware.

Supporting FOSS ideals is really expensive.

However, one analyzes the price, the Librem 5 is a bad deal. What you're paying for is to support the Linux\FOSS\privacy ideals and Librem - in the hopes that future Librem 5 builds will be better.