Librem 5 April Update

#1

Post by ianopolous » Sat, Apr 27, 2019, 9:46 AM UTC

Re: Librem 5 April Update

#2

Post by pw6hv » Sat, Apr 27, 2019, 12:48 PM UTC

I love to see that Purism is progressing a lot with their open smartphone. I look forward to have a 100% Linux phone. Hopefully people who care about privacy, customization and owning their phone will get what they deserve.

Re: Librem 5 April Update

#3

Post by Tepix » Sat, Apr 27, 2019, 1:34 PM UTC

Originally the phone was expected in January, i'm surprised the aren't mentioning the latest shipping date estimate.

Order page states Q3 now.

Re: Librem 5 April Update

#4

Post by ForHackernews » Sat, Apr 27, 2019, 1:41 PM UTC

Tepix wrote: post #3

Originally the phone was expected in January, i'm surprised the aren't mentioning the latest shipping date estimate. Order page states Q3 now.

> i'm ... aren't

Encoding glitch?

Re: Librem 5 April Update

#5

Post by eropple » Sat, Apr 27, 2019, 1:48 PM UTC

ForHackernews wrote: post #4

Tepix wrote: post #3

Originally the phone was expected in January, i'm surprised the aren't mentioning the latest shipping date estimate. Order page states Q3 now.

> i'm ... aren't Encoding glitch?

That's a single-quote, so yes.

Re: Librem 5 April Update

#6

Post by smitty1e » Sat, Apr 27, 2019, 1:53 PM UTC

Genuinely intriguing stuff:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Librem

Re: Librem 5 April Update

#7

Post by mikece » Sat, Apr 27, 2019, 2:13 PM UTC

I'm most interested in the Librem 5 from the point of view of Privacy: I don't consent to Google or Apple tracking me just because they made the phone/OS on the phone I bought. I just hope essential apps like Wire, Signal, KeePassXC, FastMail, ProtonMail and MySudo are quickly available for the Librem

Re: Librem 5 April Update

#8

Post by jancsika » Sat, Apr 27, 2019, 2:15 PM UTC

Gotta get that touchmove latency down at some point. I'm hoping it's just that GPU-accelerated scrolling was not yet working for that demo they posted a month or so ago.

Re: Librem 5 April Update

#9

Post by the_pwner224 » Sat, Apr 27, 2019, 2:15 PM UTC

pw6hv wrote: post #2

I love to see that Purism is progressing a lot with their open smartphone. I look forward to have a 100% Linux phone. Hopefully people who care about privacy, customization and owning their phone will get what they deserve.

> I look forward to have a 100% Linux phone.

Is this really what's special about it? IMO what matters is that it runs free software to the greatest extent possible.

I suspect that most people who will be buying it don't care whether it runs Linux or a BSD or even something like Minix, as long is it presents the familiar POSIX-like interface, has good software available (GNOME, Plasma Mobile), and is loyal to the user instead of to a coroporation [== the user has control over it and can hack on it].

Re: Librem 5 April Update

#10

Post by nedp » Sat, Apr 27, 2019, 2:21 PM UTC

Want to get this phone so badly. Won't care about the moving of shipping date at all as long as they delivered the phone with little to no problems, I'm good. (If I we're to order one)