I use the camera quite a lot but it isn’t critical. If I had a phone that works as a phone, I can wait for the camera to be working.
Is the rear camera working? That’s the one that I use more i.e. taking regular photos not selfies.
Ditto. Would very much prefer to use WiFi when at home (for cost and plan reasons, maybe even for privacy reasons) but can wait for that if need be.
Reports seem to be that WiFi is working.
Evergreen should have all these work. Otherwise, it’s terrible optics and will diminish the funding and launch of next gen or v.2
Now , what I could live with / without? 
personally, can’t live without for long. Maybe a month or so.To be more specific phone (audio) calls are important and especially reception in areas with low signal strength is critical. But I have problems with all phones in that respect. It seems that all are made for city life with close base stations.
Battery life is the other important feature but in a vehicle the phone can be connected to the battery of the vehicle. Earlier phones had the possibility to attach an external antenna too which unfortunately is missing in recent phones. I work alone in the forest in winter and connection is quite important. It is useful to have BT too because I have BT in the helmet.
The front camera I have used once during all these years and the back camera a few times mainly to read QR codes. I carry a REAL camera (Nikon AW130 rugged compact) with me all the time so I have no need for the phone camera.
Internet connection is useful with browser and terminal app to my home computers. And at home WiFi is useful. The possibility to put my own Linux programs into the Librem 5 is something I look forward to. It will make a big difference because now I have to rely on Android apps to get things done and I do not like them. But I think I have to learn how to make the smart phone to work together with my home computers. This possibility I did not have until now (soon).
I also look forward to using native Linux apps I can compile if need be for the phone, and interoperability with my laptop/desktops. I had this with apple some time back but the apple culture really turns me off so I grew out of it.
Is that true ? This phone has 1 hour of runtime ?
In case people don’t follow that link - the software implementation of power management just isn’t sophisticated enough yet. The battery life can be much improved through software updates alone once the power management is polished, i.e. it will get better. Just give it time.
Well I’m evergreen so I got 7-8 months ahead of me before I realistically receive the L5 . I just really hope its daily driver ready by then . time will tell the tale I suppose.
Besides the obvious basics, following:
We rely on Signal as a major portion of our communications at my place of work. We’re small and agile enough to adopt something else if it’s cross-platform.
you have several options here:
for totp yet need to see how smartcard will work but in general you can use oauthtool for that.
I think software improvement of the battery will be better in the future. But i think it will be not so good like in other smartphones because it’s full linux and the hardware. So I think 6 hours standby with 3 hours use time is possible. So you need 2-3 extra Batterypacks like Todd Weaver sad to the linux gamer. He needs 2 Batteries for the day, i think that’s not the true expect 3x3500mA batteries for the hole day or with the 2000mA even more!
dunno, my jolla lasted for 5-7 days on 2100 battery. and jolla is linux userspace on android linux kernel.
Now with latest update it won’t last more than 2-3 days sigh
power management, in particular, is pre-historic across Linux. This is why the Ubuntu phone failed, and essentially every other Linux phone in the past. The framework (not just power management) crucial for the mobile platform simply didn’t exist and making it is very difficult. This is why what Purism is doing is ground breaking. They are doing the work and this will be beneficial for all other Linux mobile efforts.
It is still long enough to get you annoyed by the person ahead of you in the market checkout line.
From the bug reports and commits, it looks like Purism and NXP are working on the power management for the i.MX 8M, so I’m not sure how much this will benefit other Linux devices using other processors. However, I assume that Purism will also have to work on power management in GTK+Phosh, so that might get wider usage.
It took years to get Android’s wakelocks into mainline Linux, so it isn’t easy to make fundamental changes to make Linux more energy efficient.
I hope that progressive web app will run smoothly.
On my LG G4, with Firefox, many applications do not work at all (Uber, MS Teams…), and the others are very slow, difficult and painful to use (Google maps, Instagram, Twitter…).
For me, my requirements are a bit different:
• It must be able to switch to a full desktop interface within the phone’s main screen, with small enough interface elements that large programs like Blender and GIMP can work properly, as occurs when I run X11 XSDL with Linux Deploy on my Android OnePlus One. It must not have the screen cutouts of the Aspen batch, which would severely hinder this. I made a post about it, and apparently such cutouts were not going to exist in the near future, so I expect this part to be solved by the time Evergreen is released. Maybe it is already solved, but I have not yet found good-quality images to verify.
• Halfway-decent back camera support is a must for me to not need to have my old phone constantly booted and on-hand.
• The phone must be able to support USB devices and charging at the same time, so I can use an external battery or charger for long desktop-style usage sessions. Currently, on my OnePlus One, I can only get through a bit more than a single class working like this.
• Additionally, the one mobile app that is very important to me but does not have a sufficient desktop version is the Reddit client RedReader which has offline caching of posts and images, which is very important for both browsing on my slow mobile internet and for backup purposes in case a post gets deleted. This is not an issue for Purism to deal with, but I figured I would mention it anyway.
We need at least basic integration with Anbox to support Android apps. Otherwise this revolutionary phone will be unusable for a decade at least for daily use.
… for certain people. Yes. For me? No.
There are a tons of FLOSS apps made for Android, it will took an huge and long effort to port all on Linux but relatively simple to help Anbox work properly on Linux. Further there are some apps who is not free but nearly mandatory to work with your bank account, healthcare system, bureaucratic stuff etc. These apps could work securely in an isolated environment like Anbox container where they can’t do any big damage or data leaks.