Purism is crowdfunding a new version of its Librem 5 Linux smartphone, this one powered by RISC-V rather than Arm. Librem 5 v2 will use an octa-core SpacemiT K1 RISC-V SoC, replacing the quad-core Arm64 NXP CPU. This processor shift will provide better performance and longer battery life than the original Librem 5 and not run as hot in use. Memory is bumped to 8 GB RAM, up from 3 GB, and storage leaps to 128 GB from 32 GB. Librem 5 v2 will run PureOS, Purism’s Debian-based operating system using Phosh as its UI. SD card read speeds are […]
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