[bpye]

Have Purism explained their processor choice anywhere? It would have been nice to have used the i.MX 8 QuadMax - it would have given a little more hope for the phone lasting.

[seba_dos1]

I'd guess that power consumption characteristics of those two i.MX8 variants are different enough to explain that choice.

[floatboth]

Well, the mainstream phones have much more powerful processors than Cortex-A53, they just power manage them well…

[seba_dos1]

I wouldn't expect a SoC that's not even targeted for mobiles to "power manage them well". Mainstream phones are completely irrelevant there.