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Doesn't that rule out any phone?
by brnt 5y ago
Doesn't that rule out any phone?
- teddyh 5y agoNot, reportedly, the Librem 5 phone.
- ERD0L 5y agoA phone, sure, a smartphone, not a chance
- teddyh 5y agoThe Librem 5 is absolutely a smartphone: https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/ https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/
- 0-_-0 5y agoYour linked page calls it a "phone" not a "smartphone", so you're proving GP's point.
- teddyh 5y agoWhat. By that definition, the Google Pixel 5a is not a “smartphone” either, since its product page does not use that term, either: https://store.google.com/us/product/pixel_5a_5g?hl=en-US https://store.google.com/us/product/pixel_5a_5g?hl=en-US
- yellowapple 5y agoBy what metric is it somehow not a smartphone?
- grishka 5y agoBut it still contains a cellular modem and a wifi module, both of which run proprietary firmwares.
- teddyh 5y agoBut, crucially, they both run externally to the CPU and main system, and can not affect it in any way. It’s just as if they had put the firmware on a ROM chip beside the modem and wifi chip.