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$2000 is a punchline to a joke? No?? OK then, we're back at the 1990s cost level, when cell phones were as big as a brick with 50% of it being a battery. https
by 1970-01-01 2y ago
$2000 is a punchline to a joke? No?? OK then, we're back at the 1990s cost level, when cell phones were as big as a brick with 50% of it being a battery.
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- beeflet 2y agoIt's more like 2017 era technology done at a very small scale with massive markup (I think they mention it costs them like $650 to produce). They don't have the scale needed to access the latest chips.
- charcircuit 2y agoQuadcore ARM Cortex-A53 is 2014 era technology.
- sct202 2y agoIt's kind of amazing the markup and also their listed BOM costs when if a no-name Chinese company made a phone with this level of specs and put it on Amazon it would be like $100.
- seba_dos1 2y agoI wonder why won't they do this then. There's still no comparable GNU/Linux phone on the market to this day, so this would be a huge opportunity if true. The only exception may be PinePhone Pro, but it isn't much cheaper than Librem 5 and its software maturity is still lacking.
- mixmastamyk 2y agoLow volume, mostly sold to govt types.