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The Liberty Phone
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#82a $2000 phone in 2023 that software-wise is light years behind the first iPhone in 2007
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#83This entire post just screams "America! Fuck yeah!"
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#84Goodness. Consumer “secure phone” offerings at this point have started to feel like snake oil.
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#85Advice for people making the next Linux phone: be generous with specs.
4G of RAM is pathetic even for just a phone. For a LINUX phone, people want to plug it in a monitor and run desktop grade software on it, they don't just want the title linux for show.
Then you can charge 2k!
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#86Advice for people making the next Linux phone: be generous with specs. 4G of RAM is pathetic even for just a phone. For a LINUX phone, people want to plug it in a monitor and run desktop grade software on it, they don't just want the title linux for show. Then you can charge 2k!
I can imagine that this may be harder than it seems.
- Most modern consumer-grade chips and SoCs have proprietary specs and closed-sourced drivers. It can be difficult to obtain drivers suitable for mainlining into Linux.
- The automotive industry seems a good place to source parts with open specs. But for reasons I don’t understand, they seem to cling to absurdly old process sizes.
- Higher-specced chipsets would potentially eat into profit margins even more, even though ongoing app/drivers/OS development is already expensive enough.
Mostly speculation on my end but I think there are reasons for choosing lower-end specs somewhere in that zone.
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#87>"All the electronics of the Liberty Phone is made in our USA facility, and the entire phone is assembled in the USA"
There is no way in hell that is true if read it literally. I dont think anyone would do this at present.
They would need a full fab and design team To make cpu, gpu, and ram (not sure how ram is produced to be honest) and all the rest. I think that is how most people will and are intended to see it.
If you read it as marketing speak and tie it to the "Made in USA Electronics" badge and read up on the actual criteria to get it, it may be true. Lots of loopholes there.
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#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because they are really only $300 after finding them on sale or as a carrier promotion to switch and a trade in.
The are people who do pay full price for phones. Not many, but they do exist.
I pay full price and don't do trade in. My old phones I usually pass on to family members after I've verified that everything has been migrated.
When they go to my grandmother, it has the benefit of upsetting parts of the family, who get upset she gets something better than they have.
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#89https://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 video on their website is even more damaging... Edit: Note, this is NOT a claim about this company, their security, or practices -- just a look at the "Made in USA" label they press heavily "The integrated circuits can come from outside the united states" A bit of research seems to indicate that this is a fuzzy system.. > The product’s final assembly or processing must take place in the U.S. The Commission then c…
This Made in USA is completely BS and scam …
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#90Nobody pays $2000 for a phone, even for the privacy. I’d buy Oculus Quest Pro, if I can use that $2000 for anything.
> I’d buy Oculus Quest Pro, if I can use that $2000 for anything. I don't get why you'd bring Oculus in this discussion. It's not a phone. And people already pay $2000 for phones. Not mainstream phones, but neither is this phone. Anyway, in terms of what people would do with $2000, I would rather set the cash on fire than give it to Facebook.
I consider VR devices as “next-gen phones”, so imo it’s fairly reasonable.
If you’re going to burn $2000, just stop and give it to me. I’ll buy a Vision Pro :)