Purism Finally Starts Shipping Its Privacy-Focused 'Librem 5' Smartphone

'"It's here! Purism announces shipment of the Librem 5," writes
long-time Slashdot reader Ocean Consulting:

Librem 5 is a landmark mobile device with a dedicated platform, runs
PureOS Linux, and is the first mobile phone to seek hardware
certification from the Free Software Foundation. Initially a crowd
sourced funding campaign, the phone embraces principles of free
software and user privacy. IP native communication is supported via
Matrix. Privacy features include hardware kill switches for camera,
microphone, cellular, wifi, Bluetooth and GPS.

"The Librem 5 phone is built from the ground up to respect the
privacy, security, and freedoms of society," reads the site's official
announcement. "It is a revolutionary approach to solving the issues
that people face today around data exploitation -- putting people in
control of their own digital lives."

They're adopting an "iterative" shipping schedule -- publishing a
detailed schedule defining specific batches and their features with
corresponding shipping dates. "Each iteration improves upon the prior
in a rapid rolling release throughout the entire first version of the
phone... As slots in a particular early batch free up, we will open it
up for others in a later batch to join in, according to the date of
the order."'

-- source: https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/19/09/08/2228201

Cheers, Peter
-- 
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
+64 (7) 858-5174
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/
http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
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