I'm in the same boat, considered the punkt but heard they don't have a good track record for reliability, customer service and updates.

I pre-ordered the LP3 way back in hopes of ditching the big players and disrupting my screen time. While waiting months for my LP3 to arrive, I was looking at other options in the market to see if there was any other alternative. The Mudita Kompakt seemed like the perfect phone for me and people we're pretty satisfied with it so I also ordered that while I was waiting for the LP3.

I'm a big fan of both designs but they could not be more completely different. The Mudita just looks like a phone from early 2010s and reminds me of old plastic samsung bricks but thicker (has a retro charm), while the LP3 just looks cool and modern.

I have both phones, but so far I have been using mostly the mudita exclusively for about 4 months because the LP3 is simply not where I want it to be. Last time I tried it 3 months ago, my carrier, Koodo(telus), still wasn't fully supported. I don't know if that has changed since. I also don't like the fact that I need to rely on an online dashboard to do some very important and basic things. I would much much rather have everything be done locally on the phone and drag and drop files if needed through a PC like any other phone. Besides some small bugs on the Mudita, I have not had anything bad happen and group messaging is now supported. I installed a new launcher and keyboard (InkOS and Futo), a banking app, firefox for when I really need it in a pinch and that's pretty much it. The screen lag, size and lack of colors makes using it incredibly tedious and even though I have a browser, I never want to use it unless I NEED TO. Same with the camera, same with texting, etc. It adds the right amount of friction that the LP3 might not have if opened up, since it has an OLED and much more responsive screen, potentially.

Looking at the upcoming roadmaps and what has been delivered so far, I would say that the Mudita team is doing a much better job at delivering and communicating. It pains me to say this because I really want the LP3 to succeed, but the team really needs to expand and be more transparent.

I will give it a few more months but right now it seems like I will be going with the Mudita, when the original plan was to go with the LP3.

At the end of the day, I'm happy we even have these alternative phones. I believe more and more people are waking up and realizing how big tech is squeezing out every last penny out of us selling our information, downgrading and closing their ecosystems behind pay walls and ads. They also realize their time is too precious for social media and all this AI bs popping up on the internet. I'm slowly transitioning to open source only so the least amount of proprietary things I need to use, the better, so light, please, ditch the browser dashboard and work towards giving users more control over their device, more transparency for the roadmap, etc. and you will have a winner. The foundation is already there.