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Purism’s Librem 5 phone starts shipping—a fully open GNU/Linux phone
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<blockquote data-quote="OneMoreThing..." data-source="post: 1830622" data-attributes="member: 196927"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> <img src="https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Librem-2-980x653.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><br /> The Purism Librem 5, the first attempt at a Linux phone in a long time, is ready to leave the factory. [credit: <a href="https://puri.sm/" target="_blank">Purism</a> ] <br /> <br /> </li> </ul><p>Purism, the maker of a line of built-for-Linux laptops, is now shipping a built-for-Linux smartphone. The company announced this week that the Librem 5 smartphone <a href="https://puri.sm/posts/first-librem-5-smartphones-are-shipping/" target="_blank">is now shipping</a> to early backers of the crowdsourced, $699 smartphone project.</p><p>The Librem 5 is unlike anything else on the market. Not only is it one of the only smartphones on Earth that doesn't ship with Android, a fork of Android, or iOS—Purism's commitment to 100% open software, with no binary blobs, puts severe restrictions on what hardware it can use. Android's core might be open source, but it was always built for wide adoption above all else, with provisions for manufacturers to include as much proprietary code as they want. Purism's demand that everything be open means most of the major component manufacturers were out of the question.</p><p>Perhaps because of the limited hardware options, the internal construction of the Librem 5 is absolutely wild. While smartphones today are mostly a single mainboard with every component integrated into it, the Librem 5 actually has a pair of M.2 slots that house full-size, off-the-shelf LTE and Wi-Fi cards for connectivity, just like what you would find in an old laptop. The M.2 sockets look massive on top of the tiny phone motherboard, but you could probably replace or upgrade the cards if you wanted.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1574363#p3" target="_blank">Read 13 remaining paragraphs</a> | <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1574363&comments=1" target="_blank">Comments</a></p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1574363" target="_blank">Click here to view the article...</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="OneMoreThing..., post: 1830622, member: 196927"] [LIST] [*] [IMG]https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Librem-2-980x653.jpg[/IMG] The Purism Librem 5, the first attempt at a Linux phone in a long time, is ready to leave the factory. [credit: [URL="https://puri.sm/"]Purism[/URL] ] [/LIST] Purism, the maker of a line of built-for-Linux laptops, is now shipping a built-for-Linux smartphone. The company announced this week that the Librem 5 smartphone [URL="https://puri.sm/posts/first-librem-5-smartphones-are-shipping/"]is now shipping[/URL] to early backers of the crowdsourced, $699 smartphone project. The Librem 5 is unlike anything else on the market. Not only is it one of the only smartphones on Earth that doesn't ship with Android, a fork of Android, or iOS—Purism's commitment to 100% open software, with no binary blobs, puts severe restrictions on what hardware it can use. Android's core might be open source, but it was always built for wide adoption above all else, with provisions for manufacturers to include as much proprietary code as they want. Purism's demand that everything be open means most of the major component manufacturers were out of the question. Perhaps because of the limited hardware options, the internal construction of the Librem 5 is absolutely wild. While smartphones today are mostly a single mainboard with every component integrated into it, the Librem 5 actually has a pair of M.2 slots that house full-size, off-the-shelf LTE and Wi-Fi cards for connectivity, just like what you would find in an old laptop. The M.2 sockets look massive on top of the tiny phone motherboard, but you could probably replace or upgrade the cards if you wanted. [URL="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1574363#p3"]Read 13 remaining paragraphs[/URL] | [URL="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1574363&comments=1"]Comments[/URL] [url=https://arstechnica.com/?p=1574363]Click here to view the article...[/url] [/QUOTE]
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