GNU/Linux (GNOME/KDE) Phones are Alive, Windows Phones Are Dead
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Security and Privacy Focused Librem 5 Linux Smartphone Successfully Crowdfunded
Believe it or not, Purism's Librem 5 security and privacy-focused smartphone has been successfully crowdfunded a few hours ago when it reached and even passed its goal of $1.5 million, with 13 days left.
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Privacy lives! Purism Librem 5 Linux smartphone exceeds crowdfunding goal
As companies continue to violate our privacy, such as Microsoft with the latest version of Skype for iOS and Android, we slowly become desensitized to it. In other words, as time marches on, people slowly become more and more accepting of being spied on. This is tragic, as our private information has value, and many will simply turn it over in exchange for a free service or other nonsense.
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Purism Meets Its $1.5 Million Goal for Security Focused Librem 5 Smartphone One Week After Surging Past the 50% Mark
Purism, the social purpose corporation which designs and produces popular privacy conscious hardware and software, has reached its $1.5 million crowdfunding goal to create the world’s first encrypted, open smartphone ecosystem that gives users complete device control, the Librem 5. After amassing incredible support from GNU/Linux enthusiasts and the Free/Open-Source community at large, forging partnerships with KDE and the GNOME Foundation in the process, Purism plans to use the remaining two weeks of the campaign to push for its stretch goals and start working on the next steps for bringing the phone to market.
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Librem 5 Linux Smartphone Crosses Its $1.5 Million Funding Goal
Linux smartphone Librem 5 has met its $1.5 million crowdfunding goal with 2 weeks left in the campaign. With this campaign, Purism aims to create the world’s first encrypted, open smartphone ecosystem that brings total control to the users. Reaching this goal ahead of schedule will help the people behind the project accelerate the production of the final product.
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Success — Linux Phone Crowdfunding Campaign Reaches Its Goal
The security-conscious US-based Linux laptop vendor has raised the full $1.5 million target it sought. The money will be used to help fund the development and manufacture of a 5-inch privacy-focused smartphone, dubbed the ‘Librem 5’.
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Windows Phone is now officially dead: A sad tale of what might have been
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World's worst-kept secret confirmed: Windows Phone is dead
But Belfiore refused to acknowledge that the lack of Windows Phone would result in users also quitting Windows on the desktop.
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Microsoft has finally admitted that Windows Phone is dead
The move is cemented by Microsoft's ongoing "chestburster" strategy that has seen a dedicated Microsoft browser and a mobile version of Edge for Android.
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Microsoft is finally killing off the Windows Phone
Windows devices accounted for less than half of one percent of all new smartphone sales in the last quarter of 2016, according to Gartner.
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