I wonder if Librium 5 phone can use the same chip as Pixel 10 Pro XL, Tenson G5? and can improve the cameras, and also possible work with Verizon carriers?
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What exactly do you mean?
The L5 was designed to work with the NXP i.MX 8M.
It’s not like a desktop computer where you can swap in a new CPU - it’s soldered in and part of the L5’s main board.
Or are you asking if GNU/Linux or specifically PureOS (the OS that the L5 comes with) could run on a device using that chip?
That, I don’t know the answer to. Anything is possible, I suppose, with enough hard work from smart developers.
See Cellular Providers · Wiki · Librem5 / Librem 5 Community Wiki · GitLab.
Any issues with Verizon are not likely to e able to be solved by Purism or any developer on the phone’s end. It’s up to Verizon to allow the device to work on their network, not Purism to make their device work with Verizon.
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@erickonix Have a look here for an explanation why it was very hard to develop Librem 5 and why you can’t just use the same chips as in other devices:
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Most other phones (especially Android phones) are based more or less on reference designs of the chipset, (i.e. from the CPU manufacturers).
but beware, many of them are binary-only mystery code.
We did not have this luxury. We had to design the hardware from scratch and we also have to develop many drivers ourselves–everything that is not yet available as free software in upstream mainline Linux kernels. This also includes a lot of low level work we had to do for the support of the i.MX8M Quad CPU we chose.
See also: Librem 6 Look Ahead Wishlist
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