Purism Finally Announces The Firmed Up Specifications For The Librem 5 Smartphone

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Purism Finally Announces The Firmed Up Specifications For The Librem 5 Smartphone

It still remains to be seen if Purism will be able to ship the Librem 5 Linux smartphone this quarter as is their current revised target, but at least today they are publishing the finalized specifications for the phone's hardware...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Purism-Librem-5-Specifications

[AsuMagic]

The price tag is worrying, I'm afraid this might end up being a commercial failure.
Of course I suppose there is a reason behind it, but still: It's largely in the range of high-end smartphones and that one has no feature of one.
I suppose people who have the money and is very sick of Android/iOS, or just a very hardcore fan of FOSS would consider it, but not really anybody else.

[Mateus Felipe]

The price tag is worrying, I'm afraid this might end up being a commercial failure.

I'm almost sure it will be. It's almost as overpriced as Apple phones. Disgusting.

[skerit]

I suppose people who have the money and is very sick of Android/iOS, or just a very hardcore fan of FOSS would consider it, but not really anybody else.

I think so, too. I already had an Openmoko, a Nokia N900 maemo and the Ubuntu BQ phone. Out of those 3, only the N900 was a device you could actually use. And all of them were much cheaper, so I think I'm skipping this one.

[paupav]

I don't think its overpriced. They had to develop OS and libhandy and everything.
Also, librem > pinephone

[rene]

The price tag is worrying, I'm afraid this might end up being a commercial failure.
Of course I suppose there is a reason behind it, but still: It's largely in the range of high-end smartphones and that one has no feature of one.
I suppose people who have the money and is very sick of Android/iOS, or just a very hardcore fan of FOSS would consider it, but not really anybody else.

yeah, development cost contribute to a price tag, ...

[c117152]

I suppose people who have the money and is very sick of Android/iOS, or just a very hardcore fan of FOSS would consider it, but not really anybody else.

And the tinfoil hatters. With any luck some firm that got stung a few times over corporate espionage would buy a few for their employees. No telling with those guys.

[starshipeleven]

The price tag is worrying, I'm afraid this might end up being a commercial failure.
Of course I suppose there is a reason behind it, but still: It's largely in the range of high-end smartphones and that one has no feature of one.
I suppose people who have the money and is very sick of Android/iOS, or just a very hardcore fan of FOSS would consider it, but not really anybody else.

I'm pretty sure that was their target from the start.

It's impossible to compete with heavily mass-produced hardware

[starshipeleven]

I'm almost sure it will be. It's almost as overpriced as Apple phones. Disgusting.

It's not overpriced, this is normal price for high tech hardware produced in low quantities.

[starshipeleven]

Freedom and Privacy is not free. In this case it comes with a low cost. Well done Purism.

I wouldn't say "low cost". It's certainly "low enough to be sold to consumers", which is already better than expected, but it's not cheap.