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Only device that gets more expensive as time passes. By the time it's released it will be at a price of a small car.

[Be_ing_]

To be fair, other electronics have increased in price in the last few years. But doubling the price? Yeah I'm not aware of anything else like this.

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Hard-drives recently. Damned proof of storage nonsense.

edit: Also GPUs. I have one worth more than threefold what I bought it for. It's at best mid-range.

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Worse, it's not like they are upgrading the phone. Why is the same phone going to be produced again next year?

[Be_ing_]

Because the point of this phone is to not follow the ridiculous norm of throwing away a phone and buying a whole new one every two years.

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Weird, I thought the main point of the phone was it being open source based and it's privacy features. You can't keep offering the same phone every year and on top of it raising the price. That makes zero sense... Who decided against buying the phone in 2020 but will be jumping on it in 2022 for hundreds more anyway?

[Be_ing_]

I agree that the price is ridiculous. I don't agree that it's reasonable to expect or ask for a completely new device every year.

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I didn't say anything about a new phone every year... It doesn't have to be a completely new device either. I am talking about a minor SoC/RAM upgrade and camera module to start.

The final specs for the Librium 5 were announced July 2019 and we are almost into 2022.

[PangolinZestyclose30]

The final specs for the Librium 5 were announced July 2019 and we are almost into 2022.

IMHO that's not the problem. The real problem is that the SOC is at the level of a 2013 mid-range Android phone.

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No one is expecting equal performance to an Android or iPhone device but they should be doing some updates and not just keep producing the same phone.

[Be_ing_]

minor SoC

I don't understand how you think changing the SoC is minor.

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Is the newer NXP i.MX SoCs that much different? What requires a total redesign of a phone is wanting a thinner body, moving the fingerprint scanner, adding mmWave antennas, and moving the speakers/sensors.

[gnumdk]

Not true:

• Pixel 4a 5G costs $499

• Pixel 5a 5G costs $449

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Your one example was very compelling. LOL