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> now I'm switching from it to Librem 5 Do you actually have the Librem 5 yet? Based on the mediocre battery life I'm hearing about on the mntre reform 2, and
by pengaru 6y ago
> now I'm switching from it to Librem 5
Do you actually have the Librem 5 yet?
Based on the mediocre battery life I'm hearing about on the mntre reform 2, and the need for such a heat sink there, I'm very curious what the Librem 5 situation is. They share a common SoC.
- seba_dos1 6y agoYes. I have backed it during the original crowdfunding and since a year ago I'm actually working on it at Purism. The battery life and thermals got much better in the last few months, and there's still plenty of stuff to improve on in the software stack there. With my early batch unit with smaller battery (2000mAh) I'm now able to reach 6h of idle time with modem and WiFi on without utilizing CPU suspend at all (so the phone stays reachable all that time and you can, say, ssh into it - the high figures from the PinePhone blog post rely on putting the phone into suspend). There's still plenty of work left, but I'm pretty happy with how usable Librem 5 comes to be right now. iMX.8M can be a power and thermal hog, that's right, but once you tame it in the kernel it becomes much more approachable ;)