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by breakfastduck 2052 days ago
Literally from your own quote...

>its CPU performance and its video processing capability are those of a low-spec phone from several years ago

That's enough for me to decide the experience isn't on par with a flagship Android or iPhone - but that's not what it's trying to be.

This isn't trying to be a phone - it's trying to be a mobile linux PC that you can also use as a phone and has the same form factor.
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fsflover 2052 days ago
Yes, this is all true. I did not try to say you were wrong. But I'm curious, what are you going to do with it? Why do you need the high-end performance?

(It can even run 3D games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_HXQJkWjUQ)

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breakfastduck 2052 days ago
Apologies - didn't mean to seem argumentative.

Having a high end CPU isn't just for performance right now, my main concern would be longevity of the device.

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craftinator 2052 days ago
> This isn't trying to be a phone - it's trying to be a mobile linux PC that you can also use as a phone and has the same form factor.

You literally just described an Android phone to someone from 2006.

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fsflover 2052 days ago
Except Android never became what we expected from it. It restricts what you can do with it.
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craftinator 2052 days ago
Agreed. I think to a fairly tech literate person from the early 2000's it would look like an awesome Windows/Linux hybrid. To a sys admin from that time, it would look like a nasty, restrictive ball of crazy. I'm personally really interested in the librem phones because Id love to carry a fully functional Linux box in my pocket, something I could write shell scripts for and run them from simple GUIs.
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