Kind of - 800$ is somewhere in a reasonable range that can be accomplished with small batch sizes. Unfortunately, privacy-focused devices are niche products because the majority of phone users are actual sheeple and only care about price for the megapixels.
At least I can no longer find the upcharge for customers abroad in their shop, that was in the order of a ridiculous 25% with no explanation given.
Still, I mostly wouldn’t buy a phone from another country because warranty cases suck to handle with customs even when the vendor is cooperating.
My main interest in this phone was because it can be used instead of a laptop, with USB-C monitor and keyboard/mouse hooked up. Unfortunately they only support their own, overpriced monitor.
Pinephone has a “convergence package” (adapter, think KVM switch), but unfortunately with postmarketOS, the pinephone battery drained so fast that it has been collecting dust in a drawer since a week after I got it :(
Kind of - 800$ is somewhere in a reasonable range that can be accomplished with small batch sizes. Unfortunately, privacy-focused devices are niche products because the majority of phone users are actual sheeple and only care about price for the megapixels. At least I can no longer find the upcharge for customers abroad in their shop, that was in the order of a ridiculous 25% with no explanation given. Still, I mostly wouldn’t buy a phone from another country because warranty cases suck to handle with customs even when the vendor is cooperating.
My main interest in this phone was because it can be used instead of a laptop, with USB-C monitor and keyboard/mouse hooked up. Unfortunately they only support their own, overpriced monitor.
Pinephone has a “convergence package” (adapter, think KVM switch), but unfortunately with postmarketOS, the pinephone battery drained so fast that it has been collecting dust in a drawer since a week after I got it :(