Hi, > Am 24.10.2017 um 20:08 schrieb Gilles Filippini <[email protected]>: > > H. Nikolaus Schaller a écrit le 24/10/2017 à 19:09 : >> Hi, >> Librem 5 was now successfully funded. >> >> Anyone here on this list who pledged for one? > > I did. > >> I'd be interested in what you expect it can do >> what the Letux activities can't or don't. > > I had an Openmoko from 2008 until 2011. It looked like already outdated > by then, and I missed many calls but struggled to keep it barely > working. I had to send it in germany, then, for a few weeks to fix a > hardware bug, and bought a cheap Adndroid 2 Huawei phone for the > interim. When I received my patched Openmoko I was used to Android and > having a working phone. I never could switch back to my Openmoko which > has been collecting dust in a drawer since then.
Well, Replicant did need too much (graphics) power to run smoothly a GTA02 board. > I've been following the tinkerphone mailing list all this time and was > quite disappointed about the complex soldering problems you've experienced. Yes... Well, it is more a financial problem. We would have just needed 0.5% of what Librem 5 has collected to do one or two more trial runs. And I am sure we know what went wrong because I was finally able to identiy one difference in the production tools between successful GTA04A4 and failed GTA04A5. But we couldn't finance more tests from the money on the table. I still have ca. GTA04A5 25 boards where the OMAP3 has already been removed. They only wait for a good time frame to try to rework them manually (it is a man-power limitation but not machinery/tools nor knowledge). > When I heard about the Librem 5 project I just felt more confident in > their capacity to overcome these difficulties, because of their > experience with notebooks. Yes, they have a lot. But I have some doubts that these experiences can be transferred to a micro-miniaturized smartphone. Chips are much smaller, they may also need PoP (and run into soldering issues) or they don't get power demand down. For a notebook you just add a bigger battery... And building in LTE with separate modem needs a good module and RF experience. Finally they want to use a completely new SoC (i.MX8) where AFAIK there is no single line of code in the mainline Linux kernel. IMHO all this is not trivial. Nevertheless, I hope they manage it in time. If not, they can still ask us for help :) > > Anyway, thank Nikolaus for your tireless work toward a free phone. What > you've done so far is awesome. Thanks, we will try to continue. For example there is now Letux-4.14-rc6 kernel available (for GTA04 and other devices). BR, Nikoalus _______________________________________________ Community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.goldelico.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/community http://www.tinkerphones.org
