Remember Canonical's crowdfunding campaign for a @ubuntu phone that raised $12 million but failed?

Wouldn't it be nice to repeat this and crowdfund for a @gnome phone?

Would you buy such a phone?

#Gnome #Linux #OpenSource #LinuxPhone #LinuxMobile

@user8e8f87c @ubuntu @gnome This is basically the #Librem5 and the #PinePhone /Pro . I'd love to see more funding and energy go into the software ecosystem for sure! ... but what do you see as the value proposition of Gnome-specific hardware?

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@okennedy @user8e8f87c @ubuntu @gnome
One thing that they could attempt to offer would be hardware that is more affordable than the Librem but functions better than the pinephone.

@jlcrawf @user8e8f87c @ubuntu @gnome That would be nice... but challenging if they *also* want to support software development. I'd be surprised if the parts cost for the Librem5 was significantly greater than the PinePhonePro. The cost difference pays for a team of developers to do the thankless work of power tuning, to work around the sorry state of embedded hardware atm, to upstream kernel patches, etc...

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@jlcrawf @user8e8f87c @ubuntu @gnome
Purism is (rightly, imo) targeting a niche market for now.

Achieving the volume required for a lower-price point takes time and effort. They've made huge strides on the hardware driver and Phosh fronts; the phone is a solid phone. What remains is the software ecosystem; No "Get me from Flathub" 's yet :)... but they're investing in tackling that too.

As the software gets more accessible and more people start buying, I would expect the price to drop. 2/2

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