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Librem 5 Smartphone Final Specs

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Re: Librem 5 Smartphone Final Specs

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ThreeFx wrote: post #61
sgeisler wrote: post #57

As someone who backed them in 2017 I'm so happy to finally see the specs. It's amazing to follow their progress, I love what they are doing with Gnome/Phosh, that gives me hope that there will be many native apps for the most important tasks and not just some web-app mess. For the people complaining about the price/specs ratio: this phone is no standard off-the-shelve system, it had to be designed with user privacy a…

I'd go even a step further: Since they open-sourced all their work, maybe other vendors can pick up / fork where they left off and we may actually have more than one Linux phone in the future! Two years ago that seemed like wishful thinking to me, but I am very excited about how far Purism got in an even shorter timespan.

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Re: Librem 5 Smartphone Final Specs

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Post by chupasaurus »

lvl4x wrote: post #132
RandomBacon wrote: post #105

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I don't use that service, but it looks like they have a player for the web browser, so I don't see why it wouldn't work.

You probably won't have the option to store your playlists locally though, and streaming music with mobile net could get expensive. The other big apps without good mobile web versions are Whatsapp, Signal, and Telegram. Those could be show-stoppers for some people.

Telegram Desktop would run fine on Librem 5 on Plasma Mobile (magic of QT) and clunky on Gnome (but I might be wrong), as well as APKs on Android emulator like Anbox.

Re: Librem 5 Smartphone Final Specs

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Post by wyre »

swiley wrote: post #151
berbec wrote: post #107

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There's a reason the iPhone 5/SE refurbs hit the front page of HN every time the Apple store restock the refurbs.

Those phones are tough enough you really don’t even need a case.

I would still use a case.

I thought the same thing when I bought one 3 years ago, didnt use a case but used a screen protectoe and then I had to replace the screen three or four times in a year. Also each time the screen broke the digitizer stopped working as well leaving the phone unusable.

YMMV though. Im pretty hard on my stuff (I was also 22 and partying a lot when I had it)

Re: Librem 5 Smartphone Final Specs

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Post by chupasaurus »

zeveb wrote: post #13

Ever since I saw the project come out, I've been thinking about what would be required for me to switch from Android. Right now I think that my hard requirements are: - Firefox (pretty sure they have it) - Signal (I use it all the time) I don't know if some kind of TOTP store (think Google Authenticator or andOTP) is a hard requirement or a soft one, but it would surely be useful. I can live without my banking app (t…

KeePass-XC has TOTP support.

The phone would be shipped with WebKit-based browser, Plasma Mobile does the same thing. When I'd have mine, first thing I'd do (or should start already!) is to help making a port of Fennec (current Firefox for Android) to Linux happen.

Re: Librem 5 Smartphone Final Specs

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Post by Brakenshire »

Tepix wrote: post #87
kop316 wrote: post #70

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I looked at the page, it is interesting, but I have never heard anything about this. They page didn't also say anything about who they were/what they do? Do you have anywhere with more information about this/the folks behind it?

It's the successor of the Copperhead OS project. Some details at https://liliputing.com/2019/04/grapheneos-is-an-android-base...

Fantastic that it’s open source now.

Re: Librem 5 Smartphone Final Specs

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Post by jammygit »

mpnordland wrote: post #25

So for me, this is roughly what I want in a phone. But the thing is, I bought a phone over two years ago, with better specs for $100 less. That same phone today is priced at $200-$300. The way I see it the real value add for this phone is the software, and this whole mainline Linux, FOSS, run whatever you want approach is very attractive to me. But is it worth $700? Is it worth $700 when my current phone is in great…

For me, I need authy, anki, and a couple of other apps or else I need a second phone. Luckily, anki is open source too and hopefully somebody ports the linux version for the smaller screen.

Re: Librem 5 Smartphone Final Specs

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Post by aquabeagle »

dan1234 wrote: post #170
dustfinger wrote: post #169

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I was referring to Symmetric Multi-Processing kernel support. Since the Librem 5 has a serial port via usb, the kernel can be easily customized to suit an individual's needs. If you mess up you can just flash the last known good. It is hacker friendly :-)

Ok, wouldn’t that be SMP, rather than SMT?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simultaneous_multithreading

Re: Librem 5 Smartphone Final Specs

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Post by jammygit »

TylerE wrote: post #119
wayneftw wrote: post #115

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Yes, who complain that the software might not be that great, but who also want freedom, your option would be to buy without expectations as a way of donating to the project or to simply donate money directly to the project. That's the great thing about open source! People form groups and spend their own time/resources to build what they want instead of waiting around for the corporate big brother to build it.

Purism is a for-profit corporation. You aren't donating - any more than you're "donating" to Comcast when you pay your cable bill.

Purism is a social good corporation. It changes things a bit, but I’m unclear how
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