Librem5 Hardware Update
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Librem5 Hardware Update
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#2i wonder if smaller screen variants will ever be on the radar. i'm on a bootloader-unlocked, rooted, lineageos sony z5 compact (4.6" 720p display) that you'd have to pry from my cold dead hands. but i would love to buy a small hackable, privacy-first phone with open hardware instead.
i imagine pcb layout becomes a much harder and more expensive problem at small sizes, not to mention most people wouldn't touch "only" a 720p display in 2019, even at a 4.6" display size (unfort), even if you told them it adds 30% battery life.
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#3i wonder if smaller screen variants will ever be on the radar. i'm on a bootloader-unlocked, rooted, lineageos sony z5 compact (4.6" 720p display) that you'd have to pry from my cold dead hands. but i would love to buy a small hackable, privacy-first phone with open hardware instead. i imagine pcb layout becomes a much harder and more expensive problem at small sizes, not to mention most people wouldn't touch "only"…
agreed. i just replaced the battery on my z1 compact, it's still fine.
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#4i wonder if smaller screen variants will ever be on the radar. i'm on a bootloader-unlocked, rooted, lineageos sony z5 compact (4.6" 720p display) that you'd have to pry from my cold dead hands. but i would love to buy a small hackable, privacy-first phone with open hardware instead. i imagine pcb layout becomes a much harder and more expensive problem at small sizes, not to mention most people wouldn't touch "only"…
ill be sticking with the xz1 compact 4life!
(or at least until someone makes something the same size, waterproof, with a headphone jack, camera button, notch-less and a fingerprint scanner on the side. so not very likely the way things are going :)
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#5> Almost right after that was a Chinese holiday, the Golden Week, which is in practice a two week holiday.
This doesn't match with my experience. Golden Week is a one-week holiday that gets you less than 5 days of vacation, because -- although companies are legally required to give Monday through Friday off -- the norm is to work on weekends around the holiday to make up for the lost time.
Does anyone have an idea what sort of Golden Week implementation Purism ran into? Why is it so different?
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#6> Almost right after that was a Chinese holiday, the Golden Week, which is in practice a two week holiday. This doesn't match with my experience. Golden Week is a one-week holiday that gets you less than 5 days of vacation, because -- although companies are legally required to give Monday through Friday off -- the norm is to work on weekends around the holiday to make up for the lost time. Does anyone have an idea wh…
China is a very big country.
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#7> Almost right after that was a Chinese holiday, the Golden Week, which is in practice a two week holiday. This doesn't match with my experience. Golden Week is a one-week holiday that gets you less than 5 days of vacation, because -- although companies are legally required to give Monday through Friday off -- the norm is to work on weekends around the holiday to make up for the lost time. Does anyone have an idea wh…
China is a very big country.
True enough. What Golden Week practices have you encountered?
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#8Kudos. The most interesting thing in smartphones for my needs since the Nokia N900, not counting the SailfishOS efforts. I'll buy one if it works "a la Maemo" (Debian derivative).
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#9>18650 battery
I am tired of subpar battery life being a de facto industry standard
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#10i wonder if smaller screen variants will ever be on the radar. i'm on a bootloader-unlocked, rooted, lineageos sony z5 compact (4.6" 720p display) that you'd have to pry from my cold dead hands. but i would love to buy a small hackable, privacy-first phone with open hardware instead. i imagine pcb layout becomes a much harder and more expensive problem at small sizes, not to mention most people wouldn't touch "only"…
I've been completely impressed with the Sony compact phones - I just got my second one a few months ago and I have no plans to move back to the larger form factor of current flagships