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Furilabs Linux Phone

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neilv ◴[] No.41839989[source]
$500 price point is a lot for an open source enthusiast phone, especially one unknown.

The Pine64 PinePhone is $150-$200, with similar hardware provenance, but various open source projects that might at least give better software longevity and software trustworthiness. https://pine64.com/product-category/pinephone/

An additional consideration: as much as we like and respect our global colleagues, unfortunately I could see both hardware brands getting banned in some locales and by some organizations, like some other telecom brands have been banned. A phone that can't be used as a phone has little value, no matter how open it is.

For somewhat different provenance, the Purism Librem 5 is coming in at $800+, which is too high a high price point for most open source enthusiast contributors. https://shop.puri.sm/shop/librem-5/

And Purism's made-in-USA version, the Liberty Phone, is at $2K+. I guess maybe government or enterprise sales? https://shop.puri.sm/shop/liberty-phone/

I'm thinking that better for the Western open source developers and non-wealthy enthusiasts would be something more palatable to Western governments, and usable as a daily driver, like Librem 5, but priced somewhere in (guessing) $200-$400.

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1. mixmastamyk ◴[] No.41850581[source]
$500 and (hopefully) works is a lot better than $800+ and works or $200 and doesn’t work worth a shit.
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