Review: Librem 5 - A Phone For "Freedom"?

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Good to hear that it is a time issue and not an issue of not wanting to talk about it.
I hope that they find the time to eventually talk about these issues:

  • The challenges of using 6 separate chips instead of 1 integrated mobile SoC, and the benefits (hardware kill switches, 100% free software running on the main CPU cores, separate chips with longer support from the manufacturer than a mobile SoC, etc.) and the tradeoffs (more power consumption and shorter battery life, larger PCB and thicker case, chips on older process node (40-28nm), less competitive CPU cores, etc.)
  • Why the Librem 5 required 1300 electronics components and a 10 layer PCB,
  • Why the design goals behind the Librem 5 led to a thicker phone,
  • Why Purism decided to create Phosh and the advantages it offers over other mobile environments.
  • How the Librem 5 was designed to fight planned obsolescence and why the M.2 slots can help extend the life of the phone.
  • How the design of the phone evolved. (I don’t recall the smartcard reader or M.2 cards being mentioned in 2017, so when and why was it decided to add them.)

These are all interesting topics in my opinion.

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