I wonder why Purism dropped Quectel. I met their rep once and they seemed quite friendly to small vendors. I even had some of their modems in a devkit connected to a Pi and two out of three worked out of the box with Raspbian 9. Third was too new but works with Raspbian 10. Didn't try voice though. And oh, they joys of DBus to control the thing (DBus might be fine but the gtkmm bindings... Urgh).
It will be joy to look through those schematics once they are released. I wonder which CAD they used? Eagle which is very popular in the hobbyist/maker community does not really have the features you would want working with such a device. KiCad is FOSS and has more features I believe (never bothered to learn it). And if you need a 5k+ CAD to edit those files... Some people are gonna complain.
Damn, I want to run Phoronix Test Suite on it. Either on Purism or on a devkit. But the cheapest devkit is like 400 USD :/
It will be joy to look through those schematics once they are released. I wonder which CAD they used? Eagle which is very popular in the hobbyist/maker community does not really have the features you would want working with such a device. KiCad is FOSS and has more features I believe (never bothered to learn it). And if you need a 5k+ CAD to edit those files... Some people are gonna complain.
Damn, I want to run Phoronix Test Suite on it. Either on Purism or on a devkit. But the cheapest devkit is like 400 USD :/
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