Not just significantly weaker. The Librem 5 uses the Cortex-A53 low-end ARM designs from 2012, and that particular NXP chip is not among the better implementations. The 3GB of RAM is anemic and becomes a greater restriction as time goes on. Many features simply haven't been implemented (most of the sensors) and those that have been that are technically difficult (i.e. camera) provide only a bare experience.
If we're honest about it, the Librem 5 is not something to use as your main phone, it's a toy to experiment with.
You dishonestly promote an $800 product in comment after comment.
Hiding your obvious shilling behind the moral cloak of "activism" is pathetic. It's worse than pathetic, as it runs the risk of harming genuine activism.
They really probably aren't going to get lifetime updates to their modem's closed-source firmware. They can't even get timely updates to their modem's closed-source firmware.
It's great that the OS is open source, it really is. But all bits going out over the cellular radio are handled by proprietary firmware, same as every other phone out there.
Educate me: Is there a way to know when the modem's firmware needs updating? When was the last update shipped?
Not just significantly weaker. The Librem 5 uses the Cortex-A53 low-end ARM designs from 2012, and that particular NXP chip is not among the better implementations. The 3GB of RAM is anemic and becomes a greater restriction as time goes on. Many features simply haven't been implemented (most of the sensors) and those that have been that are technically difficult (i.e. camera) provide only a bare experience.
If we're honest about it, the Librem 5 is not something to use as your main phone, it's a toy to experiment with.
> no proprietary drivers unlike anything else on the market
You continue to be misleading with your wording.
https://docs.puri.sm/Hardware/Librem_5/Maintenance/Modem.htm...
You dishonestly promote an $800 product in comment after comment.
Hiding your obvious shilling behind the moral cloak of "activism" is pathetic. It's worse than pathetic, as it runs the risk of harming genuine activism.
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They really probably aren't going to get lifetime updates to their modem's closed-source firmware. They can't even get timely updates to their modem's closed-source firmware.
It's great that the OS is open source, it really is. But all bits going out over the cellular radio are handled by proprietary firmware, same as every other phone out there.
Educate me: Is there a way to know when the modem's firmware needs updating? When was the last update shipped?
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