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by emacsen 1840 days ago
> Because of the size?

It's huge and because of that, it's not in the same category as a normal phone. If it had been sold as that, that would be one thing, but it wasn't.

I bought an MNT Reform laptop knowing it won't look like a normal laptop- that's fine. But if they had shown something that looked like a Dell XPS 13 and then shipped something that looks like the MNT Reform does, I'd be just as upset.

> usable kill switches

Physical kill switches, not usable. I believe the Pinephone also has software kill switches which function much the same way.

> running fully free software

Yes, no binary blobs is good, but that doesn't change the issue of the form factor making it unusable.

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> I believe the Pinephone also has software kill switches which function much the same way.

Pinephone has hardware kill switches which are not usable/convenient. You have to open the back cover to access them and they are very tiny. You won't be able to switch the microphone on when you receive a call, unlike with Librem 5.