Librem 5 Phone, progress reports
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@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
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Symbiotic applications, will the dream of unified communication come true ?
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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.
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And today, plasma mobile on board
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@doniks I have to say, I do like this idea of producing a SBC with this chipset and GSM.
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Added, thanks, with now the "last Call for Librem 5 Dev Kit: order yours before June 1st 2018"
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Today two new posts from purism about Librem 5 whose launch is postponed to April 2019.
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@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... -
Good news!
https://puri.sm/posts/2018-devkits-are-shipping/Anyone here getting devkits? I am waiting how soon we see UT running on that dev board.
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@hendrixxx thank you, added to the news list
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Little stats from Purism forums about ordered Librem 5 devices.
https://forums.puri.sm/t/3500-phones-ordered-almost-2-5-million-raised/3275/8
https://forums.puri.sm/t/3500-phones-ordered-almost-2-5-million-raised/3275/11 -
A lot to read in this last post : End of Year Librem 5 Update, including:
"we are only finalizing the I.MX 8M or 8M Mini by benchmark testing."
To know difference between I.MX 8M and 8M Mini:
https://www.nxp.com/jp/products/processors-and-microcontrollers/arm-based-processors-and-mcus/i.mx-applications-processors/i.mx-8-processors:IMX8-SERIESPrevious posts about Librem5 are here
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A lot of good news and a less good but expected one, massive progress, CPU selected (iMX8M Quad CPU) and "Minor Shipping Adjustment" (Q3 2019)
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@libremax said in Librem 5 Phone, progress reports:
A lot of good news and a less good but expected one, massive progress, CPU selected (iMX8M Quad CPU) and "Minor Shipping Adjustment" (Q3 2019)
I do not follow the bit about kill switches, since they didn't qualify what they said about GPS with it having an AND or an OR relation to the kill switches:
Purism said:
3 - WiFi, Cellular, Microphone/Cameras (all 3 will turn off GPS)
Does this mean the GPS will be available to hardware unless all three of the kills switches are off, or does it mean that GPS cannot be used unless wifi and cell modem and camera are all switched to available?
I asked for clarification and will post it here if I receive it.
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@trainailleur IMHO, it means that if one switch is turn off then GPS is also turn off.
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@libremax said in Librem 5 Phone, progress reports:
@trainailleur IMHO, it means that if one switch is turn off then GPS is also turn off.
I believe that is probably the case, but they should have worded it completely unambiguously. If that is what they mean, it will axe the utility of the kill switches for many use cases.
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@trainailleur said in Librem 5 Phone, progress reports:
Purism said:
3 - WiFi, Cellular, Microphone/Cameras (all 3 will turn off GPS)
Does this mean the GPS will be available to hardware unless all three of the kills switches are off, or does it mean that GPS cannot be used unless wifi and cell modem and camera are all switched to available?
I asked for clarification and will post it here if I receive it.
Purism replied: if all three kill switches are engaged, GPS will be disabled in hardware.