Linux Smartphone

Does anyone know anything about the following?

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/07/purism-librem-5-specs-confirmed

It uses the i.MX8 chipset. Is that 2 up on the ARMX6 chipset? ;-)

From a glance at the documentation I believe the iMX8MQ it uses supports aarch32 mode, though ARM experts on here would have to verify that.

I’m working on some of the developer documentation for the phone.

Sort of one step. i.MX7 was a small arm thing with a even smaller cpu you can run RTOS on ..

The price is a bit high.

Unfortunately, it uses the i.MX8M which is the smaller and slower brother of the i.MX8 – Cortex-A53 (i.e. Pi 3(+)) vs. Cortex-A72 (i.e. Pi 4).

But you can already start to add meaningful touchscreen support to RISC OS using existing supported hardware, so we will be well-prepared once that SmartPhone is widely available. Not sure about the updated Vivante video core and how close that is to the existing i.MX6 stuff.

At last some replies. I didn`t think anyone from our RISC OS community would be involved, though: our very own David Boddie. Yes, it`s pricey, but one would be free from G**gle.

Now, does anyone know anything about HarmonyOS in my other recent post to this subforum? If you do, please respond in that thread.