End of Year Librem 5 Update

Re:End of Year Librem 5 Update by michaelmrose on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @10:07PM (#18871197)

Without running the exact numbers I feel like running down an entire average size cell phone battery in a few minutes would lead to everything bursting into flame. I don't think an average cell phone cpu can actually exhaust an average battery in that time frame.

I feel like if it were going all out at all times for no reason it would still last a few hours.

Also pretty sure this thing runs gtk apps NOT gnome which renders your analysis flawed.

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Re:End of Year Librem 5 Update by axaxs on Thursday January 10, 2019 @01:01PM (#18876206)

Yours and other comment did reveal my analysis was flawed, thanks for that.

Re: the first two points, I really don't think so. I have a Nexus 5x that would kill the battery in around an hour if video chatting (to your point, it did get very very hot). There is also a recently revealed 'bug' in the NXP SoC being used by Librem themselves, who claimed it was killing the battery in an hour. I figure anything under 2 hours is fair game to be 'measured in minutes.'

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Re:End of Year Librem 5 Update by michaelmrose on Thursday January 10, 2019 @06:50PM (#18879686)

How old is the battery in the nexus 5? It's a 5 year old phone at this point. Daily charging could have put it through 1000 or more charge cycles at this point.

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