Librem 5 — painpoint assessment 2021

Hardware Librem 5
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Major Improvements Needed

  • time between charges
  • (daylight second) :slight_smile:
  • usability of camera app - want point-and-click
  • emergency functionality - call without SIM, call with SIM for wrong network, Advanced Mobile Location (AML), receive emergency alerts
  • web browser performance

Less Major / Near Term Fixes Needed

  • GPS working and integrated out of the box
  • WiFi hotspot (it’s on the GUI - unsure of current state - I think not out-of-the-box last time I tried it)
  • VoLTE
  • convergence to work more seamlessly and with more hardware
  • Files app needs work on adaptiveness - including using a better image viewer (and/or thumbnails)

Minor Annoyances

  • fix calculator app adaptiveness
  • show battery percentage on lock screen
  • give some kind of change log when updates come through
  • SIM unlock to default to numeric keyboard
  • some GUI way of clearing the call log
  • call log to have some way of showing the number that was used (not just the contact name)
  • if a string search in man fails then man exits immediately with Pattern not found - this doesn’t happen on my desktop or on other Linux computers that I use
  • very pedestrian uSD card read and write speeds - 10 MB/s approx - for a card that I know can achieve much higher speeds

Longer Term

  • need Anbox (or other solution) for those Android apps that are impossible to avoid, mostly government and banking authenticators for me

Important Note: I’m still on amber. Some of these may already have been addressed.

Edited to add the item regarding emergency functionality. @caliga

Edited to add the item about man on the Librem 5, which has been bugging me for months.

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