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I finally got my refund from these people. The solution was stop being nice and threaten to sue. Years and years (since 2017) of bullshitting me about "processi

I finally got my refund from these people. The solution was stop being nice and threaten to sue. Years and years (since 2017) of bullshitting me about "processing queues" with no answer as to when if ever I'd see a refund was solved in two weeks after I talked about filing paperwork with the state. Purism has burned me too many times for me to advocate for them and it's a shame because we really need a better mobile hardware and software ecosystem.

m463 3y ago
I ordered early on, it took a long time, but I got the phone and I was satisfied. It wasn't an iphone. But I could hook it to a keyboard and mouse. I later got a pine but it wasn't as good, sluggish. don't know about the pinephone pro.
- mhitza 3y ago
  You're comparing a $1300 phone versus a $150 phone. I'd like to see a more recent Librem 5 video review, because in the past it used to be sluggish as well. Whereas PinePhone doesn't pretend to be anything else than an Linux ARM phone for developers of that platform. I personally considered the PinePhone at some point to hack on, and UBPorts looked rather fluid on it from video reviews I've looked at the time.
  - fsflover 3y ago
    The interface on Librem 5 is quite smooth. Also, it can be smooth on Pinephone, if you use a light OS like SXMo.
  - m463 3y ago
    I'm not sure what $1300 refers to? I think I paid $599 for the librem 5 (2017), and $299 for the pinephone. Neither had the fit and finish of an iphone, even the iphone se.
    - monarchistmaybe 3y ago
      The Librem 5 (non USA) is $1300[0] today with an advertised 52 week lead time. The $599 price point you paid does not exist today and buying a PinePhone usually nets you a phone inside of a couple weeks where your Librem 5 probably arrived on the scale of years. It's quite the tenuous comparison. 0: https://shop.puri.sm/shop/librem-5/ https://shop.puri.sm/shop/librem-5/

m463 3y ago

I ordered early on, it took a long time, but I got the phone and I was satisfied. It wasn't an iphone. But I could hook it to a keyboard and mouse. I later got a pine but it wasn't as good, sluggish. don't know about the pinephone pro.

mhitza 3y ago
You're comparing a $1300 phone versus a $150 phone. I'd like to see a more recent Librem 5 video review, because in the past it used to be sluggish as well. Whereas PinePhone doesn't pretend to be anything else than an Linux ARM phone for developers of that platform. I personally considered the PinePhone at some point to hack on, and UBPorts looked rather fluid on it from video reviews I've looked at the time.
- fsflover 3y ago
  The interface on Librem 5 is quite smooth. Also, it can be smooth on Pinephone, if you use a light OS like SXMo.
- m463 3y ago
  I'm not sure what $1300 refers to? I think I paid $599 for the librem 5 (2017), and $299 for the pinephone. Neither had the fit and finish of an iphone, even the iphone se.
  - monarchistmaybe 3y ago
    The Librem 5 (non USA) is $1300[0] today with an advertised 52 week lead time. The $599 price point you paid does not exist today and buying a PinePhone usually nets you a phone inside of a couple weeks where your Librem 5 probably arrived on the scale of years. It's quite the tenuous comparison. 0: https://shop.puri.sm/shop/librem-5/ https://shop.puri.sm/shop/librem-5/