Would you pay $1,999 for 4GB RAM, 128GB storage, and A53?

[JPack]

Reading the specs and price, I thought it must be a joke. But some suckers really might buy this phone for the asking price of $1,999. 😂

Specs - Purism Liberty Phone
5.7-inch 1440x720 (282 PPI)
A53 quad-core
4GB DDR4
128GB eMMC
Cat 4 LTE baseband
No NFC

The specs are literally what you would see from 2012. The processor, baseband, storage, display, and everything is. The NAND is the extremely slow type you find in cheap Chromebooks. The display resolution (not PPI) is comparable to something found in iPhone 6. You can find something that runs circles around this phone for $90.

The only 'Made in America' smartphone maker has a message for Apple about manufacturing in the Trump tariff era

Purism, which makes the Liberty Phone in Carlsbad, Calif. using American components, is an anomaly in an industry where manufacturing and supply chains are almost entirely overseas.

fortune.com

 

[Scrooge MacDuck]

Make America phone again!

 

[Basic75]

And what system does it run, Android 9? ROFL

 

[Scrooge MacDuck]

This actually looks like someone's poorly executed attempt at discrediting the presidential initiative. Like, look how we'd end up if we tried.

 

[LIVEFRMNYC]

And what system does it run, Android 9? ROFL

From the screenshot on the OP link, it sure looks like it.

 

[robvalentine]

I'm guessing Trump's phone will be made in China like the rest of his tat?

 

[skriefal]

This actually looks like someone's poorly executed attempt at discrediting the presidential initiative. Like, look how we'd end up if we tried.

This predates the Trump phone by quite a bit. IIRC it was an attempt to build a true "Made in USA" phone. That led to a lot of concessions to performance/modernity (as quality components are mostly not made here any longer), and a very high price.