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Press releases & partnerships
Here are some recent formal announcements intended for dissemination through the press and/or our partners:
- Librem 5 Mass Production Phone Has Begun Shipping (2020-11-18)
- Purism Launches Fund Your App Page (2020-10-08)
- Purism Launches Librem AweSIM Cellular Service (2020-10-01)
- Purism Launches Librem 14, Successor to Security-focused Librem 13 Product Line (2020-07-02)
- Librem Server (2019-12-17)
- Librem 5 USA (2019-12-05)
- Halo Privacy partners with Purism (2019-10-16)
- First Librem 5 Smartphones are Shipping (2019-09-24)
- Librem 5 Shipping Announcement (2019-09-05)
- Purism’s Librem Key is Now the First and Only USB Security Token to be Made in the USA (2019-06-27)
- Purism’s Librem One Suite of Privacy Protecting, No-track Apps and Services Surges Past Initial Crowdfunding Goal After Two Weeks (2019-05-16)
- How Purism Works Upstream and Gives Back (2019-05-01)
- Purism Becomes PIA’s First OEM Partner (2019-04-04)
- Purism announces a partnership with GDquest to develop adaptive game tutorials (2019-02-04)
- Purism launches Librem Key, the first and only security key to offer tamper evident protection to laptop users (2018-09-20)
- Librem 5, the world’s first ethical, user-controlled smartphone, makes steady progress for initial shipping beginning April 2019 (2018-09-04)
- Purism’s Security and Privacy Focused Librem 5 Smartphone Makes Major Strides in Manufacturing and Development (2018-06-06)
- Purism and Nitrokey Partner to Build Librem Key for Purism’s Librem Laptops (2018-05-17)
- Purism and UBports officially collaborate to offer Ubuntu Touch on Librem 5 (2018-04-24)
- Librem laptop orders now shipping within a week (2018-03-28)
- Purism Partners with Cryptography Pioneer Werner Koch to Create a New Encrypted Communication Standard for Security-Focused Devices (2018-03-08)
- Purism Integrates Trammel Hudson’s Heads security firmware with Trusted Platform Module, giving full control and digital privacy to laptop users (2018-02-27)
- FSF adds PureOS to list of endorsed GNU/Linux distributions (2017-12-21)
- Purism Librem Laptops Completely Disable Intel’s Management Engine (2017-10-19)
- Purism Partners with Nextcloud to Build and Include End-to-End Encrypted Storage Products and Services (2017-10-18)
- Purism Collaborates with Cryptocurrency Monero to Enable Mobile Payments (2017-10-13)
- Purism Meets Its $1.5 Million Goal for Security Focused Librem 5 Smartphone One Week After Surging Past the 50% Mark (2017-10-09)
- Librem 5 Campaign Surges Past One Million Dollars (2017-10-04)
- Librem 5 Surges Past 50 Percent of its $1.5 Million Funding Goal To Deliver Encrypted, Privacy Smartphone That Won’t Track Users (2017-10-02)
- GNOME Foundation Partners with Purism to Support Its Efforts to Build the Librem 5 Smartphone (2017-09-19)
- Purism and KDE to Work Together on World’s First Truly Free Smartphone (2017-09-14)
- Purism Unveils Plans to Build Librem 5, the World’s First Encrypted, Open Smartphone Ecosystem Giving Users Complete Device Control (2017-08-24)
- Meet the development team at the 2017 Debian Conference (2017-07-27)
- Celebrate GNOME’s 20th anniversary with us at GUADEC 2017 (2017-07-11)
- Wannacry, Petya, NotPetya, Vault 7, Dark Matter, Show Numerous Key Flaws in Popular Devices (2017-07-05)
- A shipping update for Qubes-related orders (2017-07-04)
- Purism’s Security Focused Librem Laptops Go Mainstream as General Availability Begins (2017-06-23)
- Purism now a Social Purpose Corporation — What this means for you and us (2017-05-06)
- Security Researcher Trammell Hudson and Device Maker Purism Join Forces to Set a New Standard for Security-Focused Laptops (2017-04-12)
- Meet us at LibrePlanet 2017 from March 24th to March 26th (2017-02-23)
- Nicole Færber joins the Purism Advisory Board (2016-10-04)
- Purism announces the creation of its Advisory Board (2016-08-30)
- Purism Partners with Qubes, Security-Focused Hardware and Software Together (2015-12-08)
- Purism Ships Librem 13, First Privacy-respecting Notebook Computer (2015-10-15)
- Purism Librem Privacy-Respecting Computers Raise $797,000 to Date, Now Among Top 3 Crowdfunded PCs in History (2015-09-24)
- Purism Unveils the First Computer Built to Respect and Protect Digital Privacy (2015-06-18)
- Pioneering CPU Efforts to Liberate Laptop Hardware (2014-12-18)
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Complementary announcements
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Additional information
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