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I always wondered why Purism seemed quite secretive around the status of Librem 5 HW. And it still continues, with the Librem 5's supposed shipping a month ago

by megous 7y ago

I always wondered why Purism seemed quite secretive around the status of Librem 5 HW. And it still continues, with the Librem 5's supposed shipping a month ago - I was interested in people's experiences so I regularly check youtube's newest videos. Noone has Librem 5 yet, if I judge by that. Yet if they were actually shipping people would have phones for three weeks already. Seems like they've bitten off quite a chunk of really hard work, that they can't finish by themselves, which this article confirms. It would be nice if they opened up a little about issues they're having. All they're doing by hiding things is helping spread rumors. For example this one: https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoronix-articles/1133747-an-interview-with-zlatan-todoric-open-source-developer-former-purism-cto?p=1133868#post1133868 https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoron... It doesn't help, that the rumors seem plausible. From the disassembly video, it was clear that the SoC has no cooling whatsoever, outside of the thermal connection to the mainboard. Power management is always an issue with mobile devices, so that doesn't surprise me either.

wott 7y ago
> For example this one: Those are not just rumours. The CEO said they have to add heat pipes in next iteration. He also said he had to charge the phone twice a day (and all or almost all of Lunduke's pictures are taken with a phone connected to the charger, which is not the easiest way to proceed usually, so we can guess it is pretty much needed). Also Purism is aware of the rumour about the theory that perhaps the phone can't really make calls (the 'In the wild' paragraph in https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-aspen-batch-photo-and-video-update/ https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-aspen-batch-photo-and-video-u... leaves no doubt about that). And yet they still haven't showed anything demonstrating otherwise, which would be super easy to do. So they let the rumour amplify...

by megous 7y ago

wott 7y ago

> For example this one: Those are not just rumours. The CEO said they have to add heat pipes in next iteration. He also said he had to charge the phone twice a day (and all or almost all of Lunduke's pictures are taken with a phone connected to the charger, which is not the easiest way to proceed usually, so we can guess it is pretty much needed). Also Purism is aware of the rumour about the theory that perhaps the phone can't really make calls (the 'In the wild' paragraph in https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-aspen-batch-photo-and-video-update/ https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-aspen-batch-photo-and-video-u... leaves no doubt about that). And yet they still haven't showed anything demonstrating otherwise, which would be super easy to do. So they let the rumour amplify...