Someone shared on Trisquel's forums a direct email communication with Purism revealing the way the company avoids being fully transparent about the fact that their device does not offer better privacy when used *as a phone* — it has privacy advantages only when the phone functionality is completely turned off, in which case the questioner claims it is nothing more than a pocket (or even stationary) PC.
Source:
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/librem5-and-why-i-am-no-longer-interested
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 07 2019, @11:20AM
He actually understands things much better than all those who would simply click "Preorder now" or think that "there is nothing better, so let's buy the least worst and dream of privacy".