Having missed the #FSF 40 anniversary live stream, all we can find out about #Librephone is
'Librephone is a new initiative by the FSF to bring full computing freedom to mobile computing environments. The LibrePhone Project is a partnership with Rob Savoye, a developer who has worked on free software (including the GNU toolchain) since the 1980s. "Since mobile phone computing is now so ubiquitous, we're very excited about LibrePhone and think it has the potential to bring software freedom to many more users all over the world."'
... which is not much. Given previous efforts, and the fact F-Droid was also represented, this is very likely to be some kind of #Replicant https://replicant.us/ reboot, which (for obvious reasons) saddens me a bit.
Obviously, this software effort needs to have some hardware, and ... if the above theory is correct, it may very well be a very well known bit of hardware, the @pine64 #PinePhone - see https://blog.replicant.us/2025/05/future-of-ngi-funding/ , which was already discussed at #37c3's replicant talk (which also surfaced quite the blind spot regarding to what had happened on the #LinuxMobile side since 2020).
With all that said, if anyone knows more, has found a published recording or has a stream dump of the #FSF event - I'd be very interested. Please get in touch :-)
@linmob It seems being vague in announcements generates way more clicks and interest than actually announcing something concrete 😃 .
@agx @linmob someone wrote something here: https://forums.puri.sm/t/librephone-announced/29772/3
Quoting from there: "Attendees say that the project was presented as an effort focused on reverse-engineering some of the blobs which stay in the way of using phones with only libre software. It is not a new OS or a new product. A website is expected soon with more details. So, we may have to wait a little for precise information about the project’s objective."
