Librem 5 is now $999 (a $300 Savings)! Due primarily to the overwhelming demand for the Librem 5, we were able to lower our component costs and are now able to pass that savings onto new customers.
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@Stephen304 @purism I pre-ordered my device at 2019...
@silmathoron @purism Thanks, I'm not sorry, this phone is a real step to liberation.
Making small batch, complex hardware is "*hard* and *expensive*? Need to buy 500 CPUs? Big chip suppliers wont even pick up the phone for less than thousands of parts. So...scrunge and hope you can find the parts. Some of them will charge 50-500% markup to get it faster, *then* will sell of your place in line to someone willing to pay more. Want to complain? Well f*** you, you either pay more or wait, because you can't get it otherwise.
If this affects big time car manufacturers: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tsmc-chief-says-penny-chips-053352249.html , take a guess how it affects a small time, low volume manufacturing.
Bunnie talks a lot about this https://www.bunniestudios.com/ and it is very well worth the read on how small volume manufacturing for electronics works.
@purism I want this! Who could sponsor my project porting from Pinephone for this?
@purism As early backer, I payed more and received it not long ago.....