I got mine a month ago; ordered oktober 2019. Since than tried the Pinephone and PPP as a daily driver. The Librem5...it's slower and clunkier than the Pinephone pro. Both last less than 24 hours on a charge(suspend and calls seem to be a difficult problem tot fix). In the end, these may be nice tinkering devices, but nowhere near anything that you can reliably use as a phone. I now use a Fairphone 4 + Calyxos, and am quite happy with it. Spotify instead of Ncspot, Bluetooth that works, calls that work, no more buggy mobile Firefox config, reliable maps, messaging clients that work in the background. Most importantly; a battery that last at least 2 days, with reliable fast-charging. Purism, Pine and the Opensource community around it are just too small; either they run out of cash and/or people burn out trying to make it happen. A whole different case, but Valve's steamdeck is IMO a good example that Linux-based products with a good value proposition are possible, under the right circumstances.
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
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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.
My N9 wasn't by any means slow, and to this day is my favorite phone. I pulled it out last year and tossed my SIM in it for a month. It worked fine, though the battery is a bit weak.
I think the 3G networks in the US were all shut down now, so N9's won't work here any more. Also my N9 and N900 were both unbearably slow. No idea what you did to get yours to run faster, or maybe you're just more patient than me ;).
Re: Librem 5 availability lead time quietly reduced from 52 to 20 weeks
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
My N9 wasn't by any means slow, and to this day is my favorite phone. I pulled it out last year and tossed my SIM in it for a month. It worked fine, though the battery is a bit weak.
I think the 3G networks in the US were all shut down now, so N9's won't work here any more. Also my N9 and N900 were both unbearably slow. No idea what you did to get yours to run faster, or maybe you're just more patient than me ;).
T-Mobile has yet to fully sunset 2G/3G support.