This is just ridiculous. $2200 for a phone with only 4GB Ram.
At that kind of pricing even a scalped RPi starts to look somewhat reasonable
Have they at least fixed the issues with the software or are you still buying a promise that it might work sometime in the future?
What’s not to like about a device sporting a 5 year old CPU paired with a 720p display and 4GB of RAM costing 2.2k usd?
Holy shit
This is a tragedy.
This is greed and insanity.
We know the reason behind this decision. I’m 100% sure they they know where this decision leads. No sales, no cigar.
I would love a Linux phone but so far graphene OS is the way.
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All the electronics of the Liberty Phone are made in our USA facility, and the entire phone is assembled at that same facility.
I suppose that this is the reason for the high price. It’s built all in one single factory in the US (I was too lazy to research if it’s their factory). I hope that their target groups are real and that they can afford the phone.
That is a lie. They are not fabbing their own SOC or any of the camera modules.
Also the SOC in this thing is ancient. Purism seems to be cashing in on the paranoid and gullible.
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Yeah its kinda annoying. I guess I just have to assume it got posted when I get a timeout
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Wtf is that phone, 2,2k is in no way justified.
One of my harder earned life lessons is it’s structurally impossible to run a company that develops and sells a product based on this kind of soft values and buying devices from them is almost always a recipe for disappointment. It doesn’t even have to be the fault of the company (though it often is)
As the article says, I’m not denying that Purism has contributed greatly to the fully OSS Linux mobile ecosystem. But it’s not like they’re the only one, and they’re relying on a lot of other people’s work as well.
But this is becoming more and more outrageous in terms of price/quality.
They honestly think that phone is worth more than a fucking foldable?
Lmao. At this point buy any android phone and just put a custom ROM on it.
For $1,800 I will personally install a custom ROM on your phone.
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Funnily enough, this is for running Linux not Android and the best devices for running mobile Linux are all either older models (used Oneplus 6t doesn’t cost much) or pretty cheap (Pinephone pro).
I don’t see anyone addressing what should be the main concern: purism as a long history of internal toxicity and screws up. There were problem and their CTO left a long time ago, since then everything went downhill. Their communication is also one of the worse I’ve seen. They don’t mind lying, it feels borderline scam sometimes.
Whatever the price and the alleged goal I would not get behind a shady organization.
Nothing is perfect but Purism has been way passed the limits for me a long time ago.
I’m not sure why anyone would buy a Linux phone from Purism these days. Buying one from Pine64 seems like a better option in every way.
This feels like a very bad joke.
You could buy one of those embedded CPU/RAM motherboard, 3d print a tablet like case for it + design a screen for that case, install linux with a GUI supporting touchscreen and you created a much better product for the fraction of the cost.
How do they even find customers to buy this thing?
Or just buy a OnePlus 6 and put postmarketos on it.
Love my Oneplus 6T!! Currently running /e/OS on it.
It even double posts for ya on Lemmy, how nice!
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- entry-level Librem 5 sells for $1,299
- made-in-the-USA model $1,999
- Liberty Phone also made-in-the-USA with more memory & storage $2,199
