Librem 5 availability lead time quietly reduced from 52 to 20 weeks
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Re: Librem 5 availability lead time quietly reduced from 52 to 20 weeks
#2Old snapshot from 2023-05-15: [0]
New snapshot from 2023-05-18: [1]
For the first time in years, availability lead time for the (non-USA) Librem 5 seems to have been quietly slashed from 52 weeks to 20 weeks.
[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20230515022643/https://puri.sm/p...
[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20230518152612/https://puri.sm/p...
Re: Librem 5 availability lead time quietly reduced from 52 to 20 weeks
#3I’ve accidentally submitted a non-permanent link. Please edit, thanks!
The correct permalink would be:
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Re: Librem 5 availability lead time quietly reduced from 52 to 20 weeks
#4Reduced lead time because nobody was buying? Meh.
Re: Librem 5 availability lead time quietly reduced from 52 to 20 weeks
#5A full year lead time on a laptop seems insane to me. I like supporting open hardware companies, but am not so keen on supporting companies that can't seem to get their shit together. Even 5 months is a good long wait.
Re: Librem 5 availability lead time quietly reduced from 52 to 20 weeks
#6A full year lead time on a laptop seems insane to me. I like supporting open hardware companies, but am not so keen on supporting companies that can't seem to get their shit together. Even 5 months is a good long wait.
The Librem 5 is a phone, not a laptop. Though a year lead time on a phone is probably even worse than on a laptop.
Re: Librem 5 availability lead time quietly reduced from 52 to 20 weeks
#7I don't think it was "quiet". Their latest email said the Librem 5 will be in stock in July (pre-order commitments finally fulfilled).
Re: Librem 5 availability lead time quietly reduced from 52 to 20 weeks
#8I'm surprised people are returning this. It's an ideologically driven product. I'd expect it to have a few more warts than your typical consumer product.
The trade off is that you get a totally open source phone. For some people that is important. For others it's not, but why would they pre-order if it's not?
Re: Librem 5 availability lead time quietly reduced from 52 to 20 weeks
#9Summary: With apologies for the delay, we are now preparing your Librem
5 to ship and need you to read this email carefully with replying until
May 01, 2023.
i ordered mine on 14.10.2019
Re: Librem 5 availability lead time quietly reduced from 52 to 20 weeks
#10I'm surprised people are returning this. It's an ideologically driven product. I'd expect it to have a few more warts than your typical consumer product. The trade off is that you get a totally open source phone. For some people that is important. For others it's not, but why would they pre-order if it's not?
People might be willing to pay more and wait longer for an open source phone, but when they finally get the phone they do still expect it to not suck. So high returns suggests that the phone sucks after all. I would say that the Nokia N9 UI was well designed, but the phone or its software was so slow it was almost unusable. If I had paid full price for mine I would have been pissed.