"SHIFT happens"

[Quarnero]

Yes, it is all right (important) to remind that you wrote about that eventuality, concerning Librem 5 PCB upgrade, already:

@amosbatto

The SHIFT5.1, SHIFT5.2 and SHIFT5.3 were backward compatible phones, so you could upgrade the PCB of the SHIFT5.1 with the PCB of the SHIFT5.3.

As someone who ordered the Librem 5 v1, I’m hoping that the PCB in the Librem 5 v2 will backward compatible. However, I think it likely that Purism will try to make the Librem 5 v.2 thinner and lighter, which makes it unlikely that its PCB will be backward compatible. Purism mentioned in one of its posts about Birch that later batches of the phone would likely be thinner, but that didn’t happen, so I assume that Purism will do that in the Librem 5 v2.

Anyway, it is not to be forgotten that initial, IMHO, Librem 5 PCB modularity idea belongs to:

@nicole.faerber

Though I fully understand your concern and wish!

Once we have a case design (I mean a design and fit of internal parts) we can discuss with the manufacturer a possible solution so that users might be enabled to replace the mainboard by a later version, e.g. with i.MX8 and so at least reuse case, display, battery etc. I can not promise anything right now but we will surely keep this in mind.

Cheers
nicole