Librem 5 dev kits are shipping

Re:Librem 5 dev kits are shipping by bpye on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @11:20AM (#18716694)

Have Purism explained their processor choice anywhere? It would have been nice to have used the i.MX 8 QuadMax - it would have given a little more hope for the phone lasting.

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Re:Librem 5 dev kits are shipping by seba_dos1 on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @06:28PM (#18720985)

I'd guess that power consumption characteristics of those two i.MX8 variants are different enough to explain that choice.

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Re:Librem 5 dev kits are shipping by floatboth on Thursday December 20, 2018 @10:52AM (#18725912)

Well, the mainstream phones have much more powerful processors than Cortex-A53, they just power manage them well…

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Re:Librem 5 dev kits are shipping by seba_dos1 on Thursday December 20, 2018 @04:25PM (#18729270)

I wouldn't expect a SoC that's not even targeted for mobiles to "power manage them well". Mainstream phones are completely irrelevant there.

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