Librem 5 Phone, progress reports

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.

libremax

And today, plasma mobile on board

doniks

10, Initial Developer Documentation for the Librem 5 Phone Platform

A Former User

@doniks I have to say, I do like this idea of producing a SBC with this chipset and GSM.

doniks

Can it make a phone call?

libremax

@doniks

Added, thanks, with now the "last Call for Librem 5 Dev Kit: order yours before June 1st 2018"

libremax

Today two new posts from purism about Librem 5 whose launch is postponed to April 2019.

libremax

@libremax Librem 5 Development Kits: "we are doing our very best to ship out all boards in the early part of December, so that all backers should get their new toys well before the end of the year (given the shipping carriers don’t cause delays)."
So, hopefully Ubports core devs should get a Christmas gift from Purism...