This looks intriguing: http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Features/Librem-5-and-the-Challenge-of-the-Free-Phone
... although as a "late adopter" for nonessentials, I'll wait to ask somebody else who has had one for six months, and seen a detailed engineering teardown. The most attractive aspects are the (claimed) hardware switches on the radios. I would add an additional feature - a truly independent "broadcast detect" circuit that lights up (and stays on for perhaps 30 seconds) when the device emits any form of broadcast. I would not trust a device completely unless it was open source silicon, with "hardware double entry accounting" for interface transactions between chips and subunits (counters in hardware matched to counters in the software, flags raised if extra bytes are unaccounted for), but that won't happen until a rich privacy-obsessed geek pays for a lot of $$$$$$$$ chip design and manufacture. I don't have that on this desktop computer, so I'm not holding my breath. I tried using a dodopaddle (functional description of a so called "smart phone") for a month; I could not make it do what I wanted, as opposed to being seduced to do what the designers and sponsors wanted. I've watched other users lose their ability to navigate the world mentally, make independent decisions, create artwork and longform text, or respect others face to face. These devices are not "smart", they just seem smarter and smarter as their fleshy appendages ( AKA "users") become less capable and more dependent. The Current Occupant was elected for his tweets. So ... I hope a truly libre phone will create a user community that owns the environment, rather living in Apple or Google company housing. The latter might have prettier furnishings, but a jail is a jail, even if you can pick some of the locks. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug