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		newnewpdro on Feb 12, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Essential shutting down after failing to launch ‘G... This is a big part of why it's so important we support efforts like the pine phone and librem 5. When these companies go belly up the perfectly functional devices we own shouldn't become effectively unservicable.

notyourday on Feb 12, 2020 [–]

They need to start by having a working computer in a form of a phone that runs Android applications from Google Play, has support for 4G LTE. Until that happens, pine phone and librem are non-starters.

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