The design behind a modular and secure mobile phone

Hardware Librem 5
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Very nice rundown of the physical makeup of the phone, @francois-techene, and beautiful visuals!

In a world where hardware design is pushing the people to over-consumerism by soldering everything to a single board while promoting fragility thinness, repairing or upgrading a mobile phone has become almost impossible.

The Librem 5 stands aside from that by banning any form of planned obsolescence, which is as good for people’s finances as it is for the environment.

100% agree! I have voiced concerns about the physical design of Purism laptops before, but the phone looks absolutely beautiful from the standpoint of modification, customization, and (most importantly) repair. Great job…

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I had actually assumed Purism contracted out to an ad agency or something for that video. I’m impressed if it was just one person.

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Who needs an ad agency when we have François? :slight_smile:

He is super talented and put a lot of work into that video.

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@francois-techene you went overboard with the depth-of-field effect there …

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it’s perfectly doable if you know what you are doing …

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Thank you guys for the nice comments! :slight_smile:

Adding to that the fact that I used only free software running on a Librem 13 laptop. I am very happy with the result too.

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So is painting a picture, or making music, or doing brain surgery. Doesn’t make the end result any less awesome, nor the amount of skill any less admirable.

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Or, who knows, maybe even building a new freed phone from scratch … :slight_smile:

But sometimes in human endeavor it is as much feeling what you are doing as it is knowing what you are doing.

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can’t wait to see what you pull off next on the L14 :wink: if the L13 proved this sufficient for you :slight_smile:

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yeah but it’s not like feeling and knowing are strangers … sometimes they are BEST friends :slight_smile:

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I look forward to using the Librem 14 too! Even though the graphics card of the Librem 13 works perfectly with Blender, rendering time will be well improved! :slight_smile:

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Will you write a news post about your process, like you did for the production of “See Your Junk” clip?

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Will you write a news post about your process, like you did for the production of “See Your Junk” clip?

That is a good idea and something I would be happy to do.

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Thanks for sharing @Torrone! :wink:

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