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MarkWayneNewtontoday at 9:00 PM4 repliesview on HN

Shoutout to Purism... if you got the loot.

https://puri.sm/products/liberty-phone/


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filmgirlcwtoday at 10:02 PM

Anyone looking at this should recognize that the hardware itself is nearly a decade old (and has performance of a mid-range Android from 11 or 12 years ago), the software is buggy and not fully baked (the version of Debian they JUST moved to has lost normal Debian Security team updates and maintenance has moved to the Debian LTS team) and the company has a history of extreme delays in shipping and customer service.

People can spend their money however they choose, but I wouldn’t spend $1800 on a phone like that if you want to actually use it as a phone. And before buying it as underpowered “portable” Linux computer (the battery life is not good even though I hear suspend mostly works now), this is still outrageously overpriced even by current hardware pricing.

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axustoday at 9:21 PM

Most distributors are based in the US with the exception of large integrated circuits that are made in a variety of countries where those companies do fabrication (US, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan); an example is the NXP CPU we use from their fabrication in South Korea.

Boards:

M.2 Modem Module China, inquire for USA/EU options

M.2 WiFi/BT Module India, inquire for more options

It's not going to win the market, but I applaud anyone providing more choices.

joey64today at 9:14 PM

As a non-American, this is repulsive

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hamper653today at 9:20 PM

> "Made in USA"

Is it a gun?

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