"It's here! Purism announces shipment of the Librem 5 ," writes long-time Slashdot reader Ocean Consulting "The Librem 5 phone is built from the ground up to respect the privacy, security, and freedoms of society," reads the site's official announcement . "It is a revolutionary approach to solving the issues that people face today around data exploitation -- putting people in control of their own digital lives."They're adopting an "iterative" shipping schedule -- publishing a detailed schedule defining specific batches and their features with corresponding shipping dates. "Each iteration improves upon the prior in a rapid rolling release throughout the entire first version of the phone... As slots in a particular early batch free up, we will open it up for others in a later batch to join in, according to the date of the order."