Reminder that the SoC in this is 2,368 days old: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I.MX#i.MX_8M
The Liberty Phone
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#43https://puri.sm/products/liberty-phone/ Quote: "All the electronics of the Liberty Phone is made in our USA facility, and the entire phone is assembled in the USA" Table of origin says: WiFi Card India Both can't be true.
The page is pretty misleading. And design wise looks like a scam targeting conservative talk radio listeners.
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#45Nobody pays $2000 for a phone, even for the privacy. I’d buy Oculus Quest Pro, if I can use that $2000 for anything.
Eh people do pay pretty close to $2k US for those phones with the stupid super fragile and gimmicky folding screens.
No idea why.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't know how to communicate more clearly that there is a contradiction in their claims on the same page.
The phone (its PCB, PCBA and assembly) is made at the USA facility, in contrast to the regular Librem 5 which is made in China. It uses some components that come from outside of the US.
"All the electronics of the Liberty Phone are made in our USA facility, and the entire phone is assembled at that same facility, using the same manufacturing process we used for the Librem 5 devkits in 2018 and Librem Key that has the Made in the USA label started in 2019."
"All the electronics of the Liberty Phone are made in our USA facility"
"All the electronics"
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#47"All the electronics of the Liberty Phone are made in our USA facility"
Wait, do they have a fab now?
No, seriously, I would never spend that money for a phone, not even if it was assembled by nude virgins and the nude virgins themselves were included in the package, but aside that, I totally would want to believe that claim (which would be huge if true) but I first want to see their fab.
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#48> Introducing the Liberty Phone with more RAM and more drive space, starting at $2199. > The Liberty Phone integrates 4GB of RAM and 128GB of internal storage. $2200? Is this a joke? A typo?
It's meant to run GNU Linux instead of Android, so maybe the 4GB RAM might be ok? Definitely not enough if this was running Android. RAM usage on my Android right now: - 2.1 GB Android OS - 1.0 GB Google - 0.5 GB Android System - 0.5 GB Firefox - 0.4 GB Android System Intelligence - 0.4 GB System UI - 0.4 GB Google Play services ... and a bunch more < 0.1 GB services that seem necessary
Android really shat on, set fire to and salted one of my favourite things about Linux in this regard. I.e, how few resources I can give it and still be productive. Hell, I'm gonna assert right now that if Android didn't waste such gobs of memory, I could still be doing the... oh, about 4 or 5 things a phone is actually useful for, on hardware equivalent to the SGS1.
I know, because I did all those things on the SGS1 and it worked fine.
Seriously, what the fuck happened?
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#49Nobody pays $2000 for a phone, even for the privacy. I’d buy Oculus Quest Pro, if I can use that $2000 for anything.
Eh people do pay pretty close to $2k US for those phones with the stupid super fragile and gimmicky folding screens. No idea why.
Because they are really only $300 after finding them on sale or as a carrier promotion to switch and a trade in.
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#50So this seems like it's exactly the same as the Librem 5 but renamed, a different eMMC chip and a different RAM chip?
Yes, it's an upgraded Librem 5 USA.