Touchscreen external monitors on Librem hardware?

Ha!
Then we are likely in business :slight_smile:

Adding a touch to the laptop is something that comes up quite some time. The only thing keeping at least from it is that this also causes fingerprints on the screen - and usually these touch screens are glare displays, since you see finger prints more easily on non-glare screens. I worked on a glare screen for over a year and then got myself a matte screen filter because the reflections were so distracting. In a dark room, totally fine, but as soon as there are other light sources it really becomes annoying. So we have to see what kind of displays we can get. The good news for the L14 is that there is already I2C on the display connector for an I2C touch panel :slight_smile: So we would not need to modify the main board for that.

Right now LCD sourcing is a real pain which is also one of the reasons for the delays with the L14 :frowning: It took us some additional weeks (!) to get decent panels.

Concerning a tablet, actually, yes, would love to do that, based on the Librem5 main board design. It is a huge effort and with it a lot of investment. So once we have a steady supply of Librem 5 we will for sure look into the feasibility of a tablet. It makes so much sense!

Cheers
nicole

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