Made in USA Phone.
https://puri.sm/posts/manufacturing-the-librem-5-usa-phone-in-the-united-states-of-america/
Of course lots of costing down needed! $2,199 Sales Price :)
Discussion
Yeah, I am hoping they can ramp up production, drive down costs, and get it down to a single board.
Seems they keep with it. Not easy to do what they’ve done.
Interesting 👀
I have been one of the early backers. Retail has been 599$ I think. As much as I respect their work I ended up canceling my order because I had to wait like 1-2 yrs longer than expected and the result was more like a proof of concept rather than anything close to a daily driver.
I decided to go with the pinephone (pine64.org). Compatible hardware and slimmer.
Linux phone are really lacking android support. I really need those apps here and there.
Waydroid looked promising for that.
Why that over GrapheneOS?
That's the point. Sandboxed google play services has been the perfect expansion from GrapheneOS. I ended up using it since one year and I am really impressed how well it works. Perfect solution bringing apps relaying on google services within separate profiles. Love it!
Wait, what are you using?
GrapheneOS with sandboxed google play services for separate user profiles...
As much as I admire what a lot of these companies I believe genuinely want to achieve, they have a lot of serious drawbacks and concerns, especially around how they market themselves when not in a commanding enough position to access the most appropriate and properly supported chips.
See this note covering the main players in this field.