https://puri.sm/products/liberty-phone/
Quote: "All the electronics of the Liberty Phone is made in our USA facility, and the entire phone is assembled in the USA"
Table of origin says:
WiFi Card India
Both can't be true.
Quote: "All the electronics of the Liberty Phone is made in our USA facility, and the entire phone is assembled in the USA"
Table of origin says:
WiFi Card India
Both can't be true.
Edit: Note, this is NOT a claim about this company, their security, or practices -- just a look at the "Made in USA" label they press heavily
"The integrated circuits can come from outside the united states"
A bit of research seems to indicate that this is a fuzzy system..
> The product’s final assembly or processing must take place in the U.S. The Commission then considers other factors, including how much of the product’s total manufacturing costs can be assigned to U.S. parts and processing, and how far removed any foreign content is from the finished product. [1]
So basically, they could have a foreign made network card, cpu, OS... but if you're making a $10,000 car and the total cost of the foreign assistance is <~$500?, it can still be Made in America while being 100% all logic from foreign sources and highly insecure (as long as the dollar costs work out satisfactory to a commission of people)
You can basically skirt the rules by taking 'assembled in America' another level or two deeper -- like they have. They also do the OS in-states, which they can likely claim is a "huge processing effort" -- which could make the hardware aspects and origin less important in the commissions review
[1]: https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/plain-language/bu...
in past i rooted for them and assumed everything was innocent mistakes... but receiving their borderline illegal investment scam emails every month and the way they deny librem13/15 quality issues just taught me it is pure malice.
It doesn't inspire confidence.
Agreed that there is no way the same facility is manufacturing the chips and handling assembly as implied by their language
> We use US companies with US fabrication whenever possible. Most distributors are based in the US with the exception of large integrated circuits that are made in a variety of countries where those companies do fabrication (US, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan); an example is the NXP CPU we use from their fabrication in South Korea.
"All the electronics of the Liberty Phone is made in our USA facility" tells me that they are manufacturing all the components at the same facility, which beggars belief.
"All the electronics of the Liberty Phone are made in our USA facility"
"All the electronics"
Edit: newlines