Purism Might Be Soon Launching Their Libre Linux Phone
Purism, the company that started out with the Librem laptops that are
Linux-friendly and now pre-loaded with Coreboot, has long had ambitions
for expanding into tablets, smartphones, and other devices. It looks
like the first Purism Phone might soon be announced.
Slipping (presumably, mistakenly) on their RSS feed "Protected: Phone Campaign Temporary Page" and linked here. Albeit it's a password-protected page and thus no information besides the title.
So likely soon we will be hearing of some Purism Phone announcement and given the "campaign" are likely pursuing crowdfunding once again to make this phone a reality... They have previously said it would be "first freedom, security, and privacy respecting phone."
It will be interesting to see what the Purism Phone offers hardware wise and which phone/OS stack they are planning to use, especially as the company has criticized Android/Google in the past. Stay tuned.
And the last line on the “Hardware Kill Switches” page of their website makes reference to one: “We are planning additional hardware kill switches for the Librem 11 and Librem Phone, for the cellular (SIM) card slot and the GPS receiver.”
But with this slip-up the company may now be close to launching a crowd-funding campaign to actuate their ambition.
Slipping (presumably, mistakenly) on their RSS feed "Protected: Phone Campaign Temporary Page" and linked here. Albeit it's a password-protected page and thus no information besides the title.
So likely soon we will be hearing of some Purism Phone announcement and given the "campaign" are likely pursuing crowdfunding once again to make this phone a reality... They have previously said it would be "first freedom, security, and privacy respecting phone."
It will be interesting to see what the Purism Phone offers hardware wise and which phone/OS stack they are planning to use, especially as the company has criticized Android/Google in the past. Stay tuned.
And the last line on the “Hardware Kill Switches” page of their website makes reference to one: “We are planning additional hardware kill switches for the Librem 11 and Librem Phone, for the cellular (SIM) card slot and the GPS receiver.”
But with this slip-up the company may now be close to launching a crowd-funding campaign to actuate their ambition.
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