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posted by Fnord666 on Thursday December 20 2018, @09:58AM   Printer-friendly
from the making-progress dept.

The Librem 5 dev kit's hardware is done and shipping! We are beyond excited for our backers to receive their dev kits before year-end. Our entire PureOS Librem 5 development team will getting the same dev kits, upgrading the generic i.MX 6 boards (which most of the demos you have seen have been based on) to the Purism i.MX 8M based dev kit.

[...] With about four months to go until we ship the phones, we are going to need the community to help in the final sprint to the finish line. So we look forward to your help with testing, feature requests, and of course code!

2019 is going to be an amazing year with the introduction of the first privacy and security focused mobile phone and we can't wait to get it in your hands.

[...] Furthermore, the phone's early-bird preorder pricing at $599 will end soon; after January 7th the preorder price will rise to $699 to cover our expenses for the phone. The money coming from this will be used to fund further engineering of the phone and to help people from the community to work on upstream projects.

https://puri.sm/posts/2018-devkits-are-shipping/

Also at:
https://www.notebookcheck.net/The-Linux-smartphone-is-back-Purism-Librem-5-developer-kit-now-shipping.383531.0.html
https://thenextweb.com/plugged/2018/12/19/dev-kits-for-purisms-ultra-private-librem-5-smartphone-are-now-shipping/


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  • (Score: 2) by driverless on Thursday December 20 2018, @11:44PM

    by driverless (4770) on Thursday December 20 2018, @11:44PM (#777016)

    >lose interest for an open phone platform
    Wew lad, that's like a caged man losing interest for crowbars.

    No, that's someone who's seen way too many of these appear and sink without trace a few years later not seeing anything about this one that would make it very different. I mean look, it's a nice effort and all, but I can't see this taking off when numerous earlier, much better-funded and resourced, attempts have all failed.

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