Librem 5 Mass Production Phone Has Begun Shipping

I hope I get to update my address before they ship it. I've moved a solid 3 times since backing this.

Been waiting to see this. Still holding off on buying one though until I see better battery numbers and a few more actual phones in customer hands. Very excited about this product, despite a lot of the bad press it had earlier on (of which some seemed justified considering the timeframe).<p>Anybody got their hands on one and can speak for the current state of usability?

Looking forward to getting mine.<p>While I don&#x27;t see this replacing my Android as a daily-driver anytime soon (and possibly never), I am <i>very</i> excited to have an unrestricted computer in my pocket :-)<p>Especially once the pandemic gets under control and I visit coffee shops or hang out with friends again, this will be great for some programming&#x2F;study on the go :-) Maybe this will finally give me the kick to learn about GTK application development.

Given their extensive history posting similar promotional material every time that they run out of cash, it would be wise to remain skeptical of this announcement.<p>For the unacquainted, they&#x27;ve made outrageously false claims like this more times than I can count. I don&#x27;t have the time or interest to outline all the lies but here&#x27;s when it &quot;began shipping&quot; back in 9&#x2F;2019.[0][1] As to the one person in the forums who claims to have received it, and the other on reddit who claims to have a tracking number, we&#x27;ve seen that before as well.<p>[0]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.today&#x2F;2019.09.06-222312&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;puri.sm&#x2F;posts&#x2F;librem-5-shipping-announcement&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.today&#x2F;2019.09.06-222312&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;puri.sm&#x2F;posts...</a><p>[1]: &quot;The Librem 5 smartphone. Now Shipping&quot; 9&#x2F;25&#x2F;2019 <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;AuT2w6BkT-k" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;AuT2w6BkT-k</a> <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.today&#x2F;S7lCT" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.today&#x2F;S7lCT</a>

I&#x27;ve been trying to use the PinePhone as a daily driver and it simply isn&#x27;t there yet: camera is slow to the point of unusable and sometimes it hard crashes when making calls.<p>Here&#x27;s hoping that Purism has done a good job of cleaning up some of the issues in Phosh.

This looks really cool, it&#x27;s nice to see an open-source product like this come to fruition. I think it would make an excellent phone for people who aren&#x27;t heavily invested in the app &#x2F; social network ecosystem, or as a work phone.<p>Does anyone know whether there&#x27;s some expectation that at some point we&#x27;d see first-party apps for common social networks on PureOS? Like, are they going after it at all, or is it intended as a web-first play?

Wooooo!<p>I&#x27;m in this batch and I was just looking at a Pinephone story thinking I should check in on Purism.<p>This is quite an ambitious project and I&#x27;m expecting it to be a bit rough around the edges. But if I can actually ditch the old Samsung and be purely open-source, that&#x27;s so, so worth it.

For someone on the fence, how concerned should they be about app capabilities? So general phone use for things like social media and banking are going through the web apps in a browser. Many of these like Instagram and Reddit are intentionally handicapped outside of a native app.

This still won&#x27;t even do MMS, and battery life is terrible. Nonetheless I truly hope it succeeds.

Curious, since this is open source: is it possible to try out the software on a desktop machine first?

What I&#x27;d like to know is how much non-USains will be paying in customs.<p>I remember backing it when it cost 700$ or something, looking up the customs for UK and gasping. It was about 150£. Don&#x27;t know what it&#x27;s going to be for Australia or the EU.<p>There was also a thread not long ago about Brazil and India having sky-high customs that nearly doubled the price of imported electronic goods.

Why aren&#x27;t HNers more excited about their laptop? I only see the the Liberem phone related posts on the front page every few months.

The article seems to be missing a picture of the actual phone.

Please update the blog entry and your site - it took many clicks to get to specs and price - and you have two separate write-ups on specs, and price on only one page.

is there any up-to-date comparison between Librem, Jolla&#x2F;Sailfish, PinePhone, (...)?

Community wiki with frequently asked questions about Librem 5: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;source.puri.sm&#x2F;Librem5&#x2F;community-wiki&#x2F;-&#x2F;wikis&#x2F;Frequently-Asked-Questions" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;source.puri.sm&#x2F;Librem5&#x2F;community-wiki&#x2F;-&#x2F;wikis&#x2F;Freque...</a>.

I&#x27;ve been following Purism for a month or so, and I love the idea of the Librem 5, but is the phone really going to be worth $2,000?

I&#x27;m thinking about taking a sabbatical next year, 15 countries in 7 months. How well does Librem travel?

Why does this cost 10x the cost of the PinePhone? The specs are a little better, but not by that much.

Can I try PureOS, as it runs on the phone, in a simulator? I can&#x27;t seem to find it anywhere.

How come the product page doesn&#x27;t list the dimensions of them phone?

I backed this originally when it was supposed to ship in January 2019. The project had a lot to tackle, developing unique hardware and software with a tiny budget compared to Google&#x2F;Apple.<p>I am so glad the guys at Purism reached this point and did not give in to the folks who said the project would fail.<p>Phosh, their GNOME-derived shell, is now also used by many distros on the PinePhone, which is exactly the spirit of free software I wanted to see for the smartphone when I originally backed this.

Possibly stupid question, but I&#x27;m really concerned, considering buying Librem 5 myself: what do we really know about Purism, and how do we know they are not NSA honeypot?