PinePhone Pro [GNU/Linux smartphone] has been discontinued

Fortunately, Pinephone and Librem 5 still exist and work quite well, despite being relatively slow. Sent from my daily driver Librem 5.

Anyone have thoughts on Purism’s Liberty Phone? Looks like it’s an upgraded Librem 5 of sorts.

Do you use WhatsApp, signal or Uber from your Librem 5? Is that possible?

I haven't tried Whatsapp or Signal. The problem I've had with Uber is feeding it GPS coordinates. Talking about Waydroid, for some reason, while I can get Google Maps to see my coordinates, Uber seems to try to get the coordinates some different way. IIRC, you can still use it, you just need to be more explicit about where you want it to pick you up.

what you're really paying for is a difference in manufacturing; the spec bump is just to make the very high price hurt less. $2k instead of $800.

they designed an elaborate process which theoretically guarantees that your phone was not tampered with at the factory or in transport. it was sort of a reaction to Bloomberg's "The Big Hack" article, which claimed Apple devices were compromised en masse at the factory in China by state actors (and the story was later retracted due to lack of evidence).

i do think it's a cool effort, even if the threat is only hypothetical. but it's a lot to pay unless you're operating under an extreme threat model.

I had the original Pine Phone and it never worked well and was too limited/slow five years ago.

I don't use them, but some people do. You can use Waydroid to run Android apps. Also, concerning Signal:

https://forums.puri.sm/t/building-and-running-signal-desktop...

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/3410

Concerning Whatsapp:

https://forums.puri.sm/t/how-to-install-whatsapp-and-discord...

You should have tried to run SXMo on it.

Ah you’re a legend thank you. That’s great to know.

See if I’m able to use Waydroid to run signal/WhatsApp and Uber then that’s all I need.

Much appreciated!