Librem 5 Phone, progress reports

libremax

January 16, 2018 https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-phone-progress-report-the-first-of-many-more-to-come/
January 24, 2018 https://puri.sm/posts/librem5-progress-report-2/
February 2, 2018 https://puri.sm/posts/librem5-progress-report-3/
February 7, 2018 : Designing the Mobile Experience with Convergence in Mind
February 8, 2018: Librem 5 Phone Progress Report
February 23, 2018: Design report #3: designing the UI Shell, part 2
March 3, 2018: Librem 5 puzzle pieces starting to come together—graphics, adaptive applications, docs and SDK
March 10, 2018: Design report #4: symbiotic applications
March 13, 2018, Initial Plasma Mobile enablement on Librem 5 i.MX 6 test boards
April 11, 2018, Initial Developer Documentation for the Librem 5 Phone Platform
May 18, 2018, Introducing Calls on the Librem 5
May 21, 2018, Last Call for Librem 5 Dev Kit: order yours before June 1st 2018
September 4, 2018 Progress update from the Librem 5 hardware department
September 4, 2018 Librem 5, the world’s first ethical, user-controlled smartphone, makes steady progress for initial shipping beginning April 2019
November 9, 2018 Librem 5 Development Kits: we are getting there!
December 18, 2018, Librem 5 dev kits are shipping!
January 9, 2019, End of Year Librem 5 Update
February 21, 2019, Massive Progress, Exact CPU Selected & Minor Shipping Adjustment
March 11, 2019, Lockdown Mode on the Librem 5: Beyond Hardware Kill Switches
June 19, 2019, Librem 5 June Software Update
November 3, 2020 , The Librem 5 Mass Production Shipping FAQ
November 18, 2020, Librem 5 Mass Production Phone Has Begun Shipping
November 18, 2020, The Journey to Shipping the Librem 5

Others

March 8, 2018 Purism Partners with Cryptography Pioneer Werner Koch to Create a New Encrypted Communication Standard for Security-Focused Devices

April 24, 2018 Purism and UBports officially collaborate to offer Ubuntu Touch on Librem 5

kalle.kruse

@libremax
2. January 24, 2018
https://puri.sm/posts/librem5-progress-report-2/

The way they explain convergence, unified UX over different platforms, etc. makes you wonder why they did not just choose Ubuntu Touch...

libremax

@kalle-kruse

Thanks and now it's time for report 3

libremax

"Designing the Mobile Experience with Convergence in Mind". It may also interest someone here.

doniks

There was another one: https://puri.sm/posts/librem5-progress-report-5/

@libremax just saying, in case you felt inclined to update this thread going forward, you'd sure have one thankful follower!

too lazy to subscribe or regularly check in with them on my own

libremax

@doniks

Thanks, happy not being alone here in laziness

doniks

@libremax nr 6: https://puri.sm/posts/librem5-progress-report-6/
about UI patterns.

Seems to match some of Sailfish, UT, Google. "Swipe-based". Probably matches other OS' as well, I just don't know them well enough.

I'm not really sure where they are going with that though. If they want to use one of UT, Plasma, or Gnome, then the interaction will be defined by that project. Are they thinking about building their own shell/OS?!

libremax

HI @doniks

They said the librem5 would come out with Plasma and Plasma mobile team was leading the development.
In a second step they would release the gnome version, and yes they are the leading team for the development of a new mobile gnome interface.

doniks

@libremax ah so its the design for gnome! makes sense. thanks for clarifying

libremax

First i.MX 8M evaluation kits arrived at Purism and other interesting stuff in progress report 7.

doniks

@libremax Very interesting indeed. It also makes it clear that the UI designs are not for gnome but they do actually develop a shell themselves

libremax

Cryptography by default, GnuPG will be embed in LIbrem 5 and other Purism products

libremax

Symbiotic applications, will the dream of unified communication come true ?

gnu-mobile

That "Web Key Directory" standard seems still to be based on the idea to require key servers, this time depending on the email providers.

The decentralized https://autocrypt.org standard is based on doing peer-to-peer key distribution instead, and is already available also --at specification level 1-- in Deltachat, K-9 Mail, Enigmail (Firebird) and others.