Yes. 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

Yes. 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 ;)