Quick reminder: The pre-order price of the Librem 5 GNU/Linux powered smartphone goes up $50 at midnight tonight.
@purism Binary blobs, wireless N wifi, 720p display, with your track record of delivery dates, security bugs and poor service. No thanks
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@cyrillico @purism
To the contrary. There are zero binary blobs and that's exactly why you only get n, as all available ac wifi components would need a blob. Don't confuse blobs with firmware.
The absence of allows you to install any OS, even 100% libre ones.
@cyrillico @purism
Either because their communication is sometimes lacking, or they don't want to point competition to it, or they think it's not important that it'll be the same Redpine chip as on the devkit. Or any combination of the above 😉
@danielst @purism I am aware of this, but if this is really the case then why wont they say which wifi chipset they're using?