Battery life – Purism https://puri.sm/ High-quality computers that protect your freedom and privacy Wed, 01 Oct 2025 18:29:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.28 https://puri.sm/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cropped-purism-logo-rectangle-1-32x32.png Battery life – Purism https://puri.sm/ 32 32 PureOS 10.3 Power Optimization https://puri.sm/posts/pureos-10-3-power-optimization/ Mon, 12 Jun 2023 16:51:02 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=79637 With PureOS 10.3, power saving and new goodies is the name of the game. Most companies abandon hardware soon after launch, but we have a different approach with the Librem 5.  With every upgrade to PureOS we push on the Librem 5, the more the device can do and the more efficient it gets. One […]

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]]> Librem 5 Battery Life Improved by 100%! https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-battery-life-improved-by-100/ Wed, 31 May 2023 19:25:09 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=79561 Just like a great wine, the Librem 5 is getting better with age and it may well be the only smartphone to do so. That is because we don’t invest in obsolescence. In the opposite, our wonderful dev team is never giving up on their effort to optimize the software. After each major update, the […]

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]]> Librem 5 Product Report and Roadmap for 2023 https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-product-report-and-roadmap-for-2023/ Thu, 25 May 2023 19:08:14 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=79312 It has been some time since we last published a global product report for the Librem 5 phone. This is not because of slowing down our development effort, it is the opposite. We have been very busy and we have made substantial progress during the last few months. We have been listening to our customers […]

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]]> Librem 14 Rave https://puri.sm/posts/librem-14-rave/ Thu, 08 Apr 2021 17:14:04 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=71454 Now that shipping of the Librem 14 to customers is imminent we should talk about some more details and enhancements we made.

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]]> Librem 14 Update: Shipping Starts in February with Extended Battery https://puri.sm/posts/librem-14-update-shipping-starts-in-february-with-extended-battery/ Fri, 15 Jan 2021 17:20:26 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=70887 The Librem 14 is our dream laptop and we know many of you are looking forward to getting yours. In our last post we talked about some of the final tweaks we made that resulted in shipping being delayed until January. The bad news is that we won’t be able to start shipping Librem 14s […]

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]]> Librem 5 January 2020 Software Update https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-january-2020-software-update/ Fri, 03 Apr 2020 11:58:15 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=67926 January saw development take off again after the end-of-year break, and following on from the Chestnut shipment of the Librem 5. Some of the activities below were already mentioned in their own articles in Purism’s news archive; others will be covered in more depth in future articles. This is just a taste of all the […]

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]]> Purism’s contributions to Linux 5.5 and 5.6 https://puri.sm/posts/purisms-contributions-to-linux-5-5-and-5-6/ Tue, 24 Mar 2020 20:12:33 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=67827 Following up on our report for Linux 5.4, we continue to improve mainline kernel support for the Librem 5 phone. Here’s a summary of the progress we have made during the 5.5 and 5.6 development cycles. Librem 5’s backlight LED driver The driver that saw the most patches was the LED backlight driver. More specifically […]

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]]> Librem 5 Power Management Improvements up to Jan 2020 https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-power-management-improvements-up-to-jan-2020/ Wed, 19 Feb 2020 11:00:43 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=67170 Power-management improvements continue to find their way into PureOS. We still have a ways to go before the battery can make it through a day, but progress is steady. Let’s go over a few of the latest changes. Improvements: Apps can now detect the charging state and various usb-c properties. This could come in handy […]

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]]> Improvements to Librem 5 Light Levels https://puri.sm/posts/change-in-light-levels/ Tue, 18 Feb 2020 11:27:00 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=67243 It’s the small things that make a smartphone feel nice to use. With the constant flow of updates, improvements to usability keep finding their way into PureOS. One of the recent improvements is how the screen adjusts brightness. This improvement will help tune screen brightness to more convenient levels. After the new update, light levels […]

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]]> Librem 5 November 2019 Software Update https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-november-2019-software-update/ Tue, 24 Dec 2019 13:32:33 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=66849 General In November, we shipped the Birch batch of Librem 5, fixed audio routing, made changes to various apps and shared Librem 5 at various meetups and talks. A couple of other articles appeared about software development: Oxidizing Squeekboard described the use of the Rust programming language in the Librem 5’s virtual keyboard, and the […]

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]]> Librem 5 Longevity: Solving The Problem of Disposable Technology https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-longevity-solving-the-problem-of-disposable-technology/ Tue, 10 Dec 2019 16:43:58 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=66638 I’ve been using GNU/Linux (“Linux”) as my desktop OS for over twenty years now. Throughout all of that time, one thing that I’ve loved about Linux on the desktop is how it can take a so-called “slow” and “old” computer and can breathe new life into it. Back when Installfests were a thing (events where […]

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]]> Progress update from the Librem 5 hardware department https://puri.sm/posts/librem5-2018-09-hardware-report/ Tue, 04 Sep 2018 14:57:02 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=53202 As you might have noted when we announced closing the development kit “last call” sale, new specifications have been made public. I want to explain what led to these specifications and why we made the choices we made and what the current timeline is for the devkits and Librem 5 phones. We want to make […]

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]]> Librem 5 design report #5 https://puri.sm/posts/librem5-progress-report-11/ Thu, 10 May 2018 23:27:47 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=51945 Hello everyone! A lot has happened behind the scenes since my last design report. Until now, I have been reporting on our design work mainly on the software front, but our effort is obviously not limited to that. The experience that people can have with their physical device is also very important. So in this […]

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