That's the approach I might consider. The Librem is out of my reach for now, and I just wanted to explore a mobile platform running a true operating system that

That's the approach I might consider. The Librem is out of my reach for now, and I just wanted to explore a mobile platform running a true operating system that is not a toy with added spyware, so the PinePhone is enough for me. In my opinion Pine64 did the right thing in solving the harder problem first (trustworthiness). Thanks for the sales of the PinePhone they hopefully will be able to make a better performing model in the future. If say I buy a PinePhone as personal gift for Xmas, then 2 years from now they introduce a new model that makes my model obsolete, I wouldn't complain at all because it would still do what it should do. The Librem is on another planet feature wise, which is expected from a device costing like 5 times more. But do I need that power? Well, I find really annoying doing anything on small screens, so I always take with me the laptop; all that power in a phone would be wasted since all I could ask to a privacy focused phone is to prevent my voice comms to be intercepted (from within the phone, of course LEOs have full access to comms), my contacts, files, photos and videos, music etc. to be copied; all things a 150-200 € open phone can do as well. But yeah, should I have the resources, I'd like to contribute both projects; they deserve that.