Librem 5 v2: A phone that frees us all

I like phones with user controlled root of trust. I like phones that can run mainline Linux (let's not get into the debate over security, it's not there yet, but they'll get there eventually). This, however, is going to be ewaste on launch, and knowing the way the Librem 5 launched (has every order been fulfilled yet?), getting it will be an unmitigated disaster. 8 A55 equivalent cores running at 1.6ghz, RVA22 instead of RVA23, launching in 2028! It will be quite literally the slowest phone you could spend money on at its launch date, given that the by-then ANCIENT Snapdragon 4s Gen 2 you can get in a $20 flip phone from Walmart Right Now has performance cores that look like F1 cars in comparison.

I wonder if the K1 is going to be an appropriate chip for a 2028 smartphone?

Will it even be able to drive an external 4K display like the i.MX 8M Quad on the Librem 5 v1? If not, the convergence feature becomes moot. Life is too short to deal with blurry text on your monitor.

I want Purism to succeed, they’ve been an important catalyst for the Linux phone ecosystem. But this is just eye watering. $1600 plus taxes and shipping to the EU amounts to 2000 EUR.

Would have been sweet to socket the CPU/RAM on a single edge connected PCB to usher in a ATX of brick phones. I miss standards in computing...

The only problem is $1600 is a price of 10 ordinary phones. For an experimental phone that might not even work properly.

It looks like there are so few people caring about freedom and privacy that it is not worth making a phone for them otherwise Chinese would make it.