The final specification of the Librem 5 smartphone has been published

Purism Companies опубликовала the final specifications of the smartphone By 5, whose developers have taken a number of software and hardware measures to block attempts to track and collect information about the user.
The software stuffing is based on the PureOS distribution using the Debian package base and the GNOME environment adapted for smartphones (KDE Plasma Mobile and UBports can be installed as options). The software filling is based on the PureOS distribution using the Debian package base and the GNOME Shell shell adapted for smartphones. The device is expected to start selling in the third quarter of 2019. The Librem 5 will cost $699.

The smartphone is notable for the presence of three switches that, at the level of a hardware circuit break, allow you to disable the camera, microphone, WiFi / Bluetooth and the Baseband module. When all three switches are disabled, sensors (IMU + compass & GNSS, light and proximity sensors) are additionally blocked. The components of the Baseband chip, which is responsible for working in cellular networks, are separated from the main CPU, which ensures the operation of the user environment. There are two options for the Baseband chip: Gemalto PLS8 3G/4G modem and Broadmobi BM818 (made in China).

The smartphone will be equipped with an i.MX8M SoC with a quad-core ARM64 Cortex A53 (1.5GHz) CPU, an auxiliary Cortex M4 chip and a Vivante GPU with support for OpenGL / ES 3.1, Vulkan and OpenCL 1.2.
RAM size - 3GB, built-in Flash 32GB plus microSD slot. The device will come with a 5.7-inch screen (IPS TFT) with a resolution of 720×1440. The battery capacity will be 3500mAh. Among other components: Wi-Fi 802.11abgn 2.4 Ghz / 5Ghz, Bluetooth 4,
GPS Teseo LIV3F GNSS, front and rear cameras in 8 and 13 megapixels,
USB Type-C (USB 3.0, power and video output), 2FF smart card reader.

The work of mobile applications is provided by the library band, which develops a set of widgets and objects for creating a user interface for mobile devices using GTK and GNOME technologies. The library allows you to work with the same GNOME applications on smartphones and PCs - by connecting a smartphone to a monitor, you get a typical GNOME desktop based on a single set of applications. For messaging by default, a system of decentralized communications based on the Matrix protocol is proposed.

Source: opennet.ru