USA-Made Privacy-First Phone Runs Its Own Linux OS
Purism’s Liberty Phone, the U.S.-made smartphone running PureOS—a Linux-based, privacy-focused OS—stands out as the only commercially available device with U.S. fabrication and final assembly, featuring a 5.7-inch IPS display, 4GB RAM, 128GB storage, and hardware kill switches, priced around $1,999 (often $1,749 on sale); it highlights a trade-off of fewer apps and lower specs for greater control and transparency, alongside niche alternatives like Light Phone III, Mudita Kompakt, and Fairphone 6 that pursue minimalism, simplicity, or repairability instead of mainstream ecosystems.