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Re:FSF Announces Librephone Project by tyler-dot-earth on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @03:03PM (#45596991)
as someone who has followed this phone for a long time, it has had an image problem - fairly old hardware, early software/buggy, and bad customer service experiences.

i'm still pretty tempted to play with one.

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Re:FSF Announces Librephone Project by fsflover on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @03:27PM (#45597253)
> fairly old hardware

How new do you think the chosen Android hardware will be at the end of the promised reverse-engineering efforts?

See also: https://puri.sm/posts/the-danger-of-focusing-on-specs/

It's fast enough and stable enough to serve me (and many other people, including in the HN comments) as a daily driver.

> bad customer service experiences

This depends: Purism is a quite small company, and sometimes they take time to reply, but the community at forums.puri.sm has been really helpful. I'm a happy user.

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Re:FSF Announces Librephone Project by fsflover on Saturday October 18, 2025 @04:20AM (#45625794)
We are talking about the FSF here, not Apple. The former concentrate on the user freedom, not modern hardware or polished experience (which is a good thing).
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