GNU/linux smarthphone /genereal/

Meanie!

By the way, The Librem has its CPU separate from the baseband, making it much better than other phones in this regard

That's nice.
You know it's gonna fail like Windows Phone though, the market is already saturated, people won't buy phones with a new OS because it doesn't have any apps and devs won't make apps for it because it doesn't have any marketshare. Too little, too late, as they say. Way too late in this case, even MS have tried and failed in the smartphone market before, and they are usually the last to notice new developments.

This isn't a locked down, walled-garden ecosystem like Android and iOS. This can run literally any GNU/Linux application, because it's GNU/Linux.
You can even wipe the PureOS distro it comes with, and Install Gentoo on it!

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Really? Please point me to where I can find the competitors of privacy respecting phones mr. Google employee. Because there are none.
It's a new market, and strangely we had to wait 10+ years for it to finally come.

There are some. Remember that thread about a CEO being thrown in jail or something for selling his privacy phones because he was complicit selling them to drug dealers.

Have fun using desktop applications which aren't optimized for touch screens. Libre office, vim, emacs, Thunderbird, Gimp, every single cli application was build with keyboard and mouse in mind. Use a Windows tablet without the keyboard attachment and try using any regular desktop application. It can be done, but it's a pain.


Web OS, Firefox OS, older Ubuntu phones.
Granted, those aren't real competitors anymore since they already failed.
What market? Almost half of the people alive nowadays own a smartphone. Those who don't
a) live in shit hole countries without electricity
b) are so old they don't give a shit about those toys
c) are so poor they cannot afford a $30 android poo in loo phone
d) are Terry Davis tier paranoid and wouldn't want any device which can connect to mobile networks
People who would want a smartphone only if it respected their freedoms are few and far between. They either settled with Android (maybe degoogled) or reject phones in general. Once you connect to the network, you can and will be tracked, regardless of the OS.

Then it's not a phone

Everything this guy said, basically. I would be interested in a degoogled Android custom ROM tablet without any sort of connectivity or maybe WiFi-only with a hardware switch. I would gladly use it as a PDA/e-reader. I'd be interested in a free software flip phone too, but I'm sure nobody would buy that but me. Smartphone running Linux with no apps, the same shitty smartphones with low volume and terrible dialer/contacts, no thanks.

Something like this happened in the Netherlands as well. It was a company selling preconfigured BlackBerries for encrypted messaging. Justice demanded the keys and the cucks gave it to them. But I wouldn't consider those privacy respecting phones, since they don't run GNU/Linux etc.

I never owned a smartphone and the Librem 5 is making me consider to buy one. I never had a Facebook account either, so I guess according to you I am "Terry Davis tier paranoid". I prefer to call myself a rational human being.
Also 10 years a go wireless internet was shit and expensive. Nowadays with free wifi hotspots everywhere it is actually good enough for me to consider using it with a phone that respects my freedom.

It runs GNU/Linux. You can install everything you want.
You already tested the Librem 5? No? Then stfu.