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>>jstanl+(OP)
It's an interesting article (and thanks to the author for putting it out) but I wonder what their end goal is. Is it to have a 100% secure/private phone? I'm not sure if that's possible with the proprietary firmware (though the hardware kill switches are certainly a good idea). Most importantly, the questionable usability means that either the Librem team needs to work much more, or... this becomes a "smarter" alternative to a dumb brick without giving data to Big Tech. (Ignoring the fact that a sim card automatically makes you lose privacy to the government/telecos).

When comparing against something like a Pixel running GrapheneOS, it's honestly a bit more puzzling to me. Granted, I'm definitely not the audience for this, but with G_OS you can do most things that a regular phone can do, without taking several minutes to install Firefox.

As much as I love privacy (going as far as having a semi-random username), this phone is a bit puzzling. I hope someone can throw more light on this.

>>user_7+X7
Answering personally, I seem to be 'the swing voter' demographic for this phone - I have gone to their site many times, but have never paid them a dollar. I'm interested less because of what I could do with this phone - apple works great for me - but because I'm interested in how much the hardware can be open sourced, can a phone or laptop be built where only the low level components are sourced from existing manufacturers, without needing google or apple etc to curate the assembly. I like the idea of having what I have with apple, but not having apple or google or anyone own the ecosystem.

>>monkey+Wa
If you bought it (assuming you would if you were impressed enough by their work and had the funds), would you be willing to daily it? (Perhaps assuming some bugs got fixed by then, but realistically not all)

>>user_7+1c
I enjoy pretending that I would.