We all know that Librem 5 is a meme. How about Pinephone? It is more affordable, but outsourcing software development to the community can severely backfire. I expect having a barely functioning laggy phone with basic features, in which you might as well just buy a 20 bucks Nokia dumb brickphone. At least the 20 bucks dumbphone is robust.
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Leo Adams
Jonathan Miller
I really wish the big companies with the power to control the market held developers accountable for their garbo software, but that'd imply them not making garbage software themselves.
Ian Sullivan
It's made by the professionals at KDE so I trust it'll be good
Luis Walker
>KDE
Konqi Krash!
Ryder Lee
postmarket os actually looks kind of dank.
the problem I have with open hardware is that I'm living lean by buying ex flagships second hand and paying full price for indie budget phones kind of screws me.
Isaac White
The pinephone will ship soon to anyone who wants a phone with no OS preinstalled(mostly for testing purposes)
Later it will come with an os preinstalled.
Ethan Harris
>The pinephone will ship soon to anyone who wants a phone with no OS preinstalled(mostly for testing purposes)
That's exactly my point. I dont think they'll be able to ship consumer grade product in time because the software development is outsourced to the community
Joseph Gray
The Bethesda technique, very clever
Lucas Ross
So the current choices are
1. $750 Librem 5 meme, the first production batch is artisan handmade hardware. Mechanical Design: Individually milled case, loose fit, varying alignment, unfinished switch caps (hand crafted).
2. $150 Pinephone. Maybe the hardware is passable (i.e. not rattling or falling apart like Librem 5) but the software is unproven
3. ???
4. Bootleg postmarket OS on 7 years old phone with no celular data capability
The absolute nation of Gahnoo-slash-Leenox
Brayden Turner
The pinephone will run anything you can get running on it (including andoroid,lineage and other varieties) till distros start coming out for phones.