I have been looking to get a mobile phone for emergency use when my Greenspeed Magnun trike breaks down. While a simple and cheap device would do I have been drawn to the Librem 5 due to its open design. I am a GREAT believer in open source and i like to have as much control over the hardware as possible and like for instance that the librem 5 uses a stand tip ring sleeve 3.5mm audio out put socket. To get some idea of the hardware I have look at 3 current reviews of Purisms Librem 13 and 15 laptops, the 15 is currnetly at the 4 th revision, the review of the 13 was for the 2nd revision and for the 15 the 3rd revision. All the reviews were basicly rave reviews all 3 reviewers being very impressed on the design the usability and particulary the ease of dismantling and upgrading/repairing what ever is required. If you like as much control of the hardware as possible and strongly believe in the open source philosophy Then Purism's devices will be worth a real close look other wise I would not worry. Note: if one is cautious it may be worthwhile to wait for version 2 of the Librem 5, in the laps tops each revision released has been a marked improvemenet. I will shortly be putting in a preorder for a Librem 5. (as soon as funds come from my investment accounts). Lindsay ----- Original message ----- From: Davor Balder via luv-talk <luv-talk@luv.asn.au> To: Andrew McGlashan via luv-talk <luv-talk@luv.asn.au> Subject: Re: [luv-talk] Anyone looked and/or considering buying a Librem_5 mobile phone ?....oops earlier email to wrong list Date: Monday, January 21, 2019 10:56 PM Hi, On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 07:53:07PM +1100, Andrew McGlashan via luv-talk wrote:
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Hi,
On 21/1/19 2:56 pm, Rohan McLeod via luv-talk wrote:
Russell Coker wrote:
On Monday, 21 January 2019 11:32:05 AM AEDT Rohan McLeod via luv-talk wrote: I paid for it in 2017, I hope it is as good as I expected then.
Ditto. I hope to see it soon.
I have to say that I've been burned by other crowd sourced projects and if puri.sm ever goes via one of the /other/ traditional platforms, then I wouldn't participate in any newer projects.
I would love to see this as well. Their laptop effort was criticised by some (for the quality and related reasons, I believe). I would love to get one of these after they iron out (expected) initial production issues and I really hope they succeed! Once this sees the light of day (finally), this device will be very popular (provided they don't go with other, 'traditional' platforms...
Cheers A.
Cheers Davor _______________________________________________ luv-talk mailing list luv-talk@luv.asn.au https://lists.luv.asn.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luv-talk