While I use Gnome, and like the way it looks, I feel it's a mistake on a phone unless they are doing a lot of heavy editing. While it's gotten better, the JS -still- leaks and randomly pegs the CPU. In a phone I would imagine a battery life measured in minutes.
The in-development "Phosh" shell does not use JS at all; it is not based on GNOME Shell, even though the work on Phosh is being done as part of the GNOME project.
Without running the exact numbers I feel like running down an entire average size cell phone battery in a few minutes would lead to everything bursting into flame. I don't think an average cell phone cpu can actually exhaust an average battery in that time frame.
I feel like if it were going all out at all times for no reason it would still last a few hours.
Also pretty sure this thing runs gtk apps NOT gnome which renders your analysis flawed.
Yours and other comment did reveal my analysis was flawed, thanks for that.
Re: the first two points, I really don't think so. I have a Nexus 5x that would kill the battery in around an hour if video chatting (to your point, it did get very very hot). There is also a recently revealed 'bug' in the NXP SoC being used by Librem themselves, who claimed it was killing the battery in an hour. I figure anything under 2 hours is fair game to be 'measured in minutes.'
How old is the battery in the nexus 5? It's a 5 year old phone at this point. Daily charging could have put it through 1000 or more charge cycles at this point.
