I apologise if this is something that I should be able to find easily, but I couldn’t. Can someone please point me to the actual phone dimensions? All I seem to be able to find is screen being 5.7", but nothing else.
I’d like to see the actual height, width, thickness. Its probably obvious to those who navigate around the Purism website regularly, but not to me.
Just now I can’t remember the original source but 147.1x73.3x15mm were mentioned around when Aspen batch was launched, if memory serves. There may be small changes in the final Evergreen batch but probably not much. I’ll see if I can track down anything recent on it…
Thanks for that. I’m just chasing this up because it looked monstrous in one of the vids I saw. Those dimensions make it bigger all round than my current Moto G5. About 3mm bigger in height and width. The thickness is what it is of course.
True. There has been several previous discussion threads where size has been hashed. Some/most of it is due to the technical requirements and limitations (the board, radios, used chips). It will make finding a case interesting and some are keen to have a case on top of that thicknes. But size allows for certain things also (replaceable battery for one, which goes a long way to enable L5 to live longer). Maybe L6 or L7 are thinner… in 2030?
According to Azdle’s review of Birch, the Librem 5 dimensions are 150.2 mm tall, 75.2 mm wide and 15.6 mm thick. TechRadar’s review of Chestnut says that the dimensions are 150 x 75 x 15.5 mm.
I doubt that Dogwood will be thinner, because it increases the battery capacity from 2000 to 3500 mAh and it adds a metal sheet between the PCB and screen to dissipate heat and adds an internal plastic cover over the M.2 cards. That internal plastic cover makes it possible to see if anyone has tampered with the hardware, because you can paint glitter over the screws.
I see valid reasons for these changes, but I don’t think Purism can make the phone much slimmer.