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Jolla, of "where's my tablet" fame, has announced a plan the sell their SailfishOS for Sony Xperia X phones as an aftermartket upgrade. From the announcement:
Here are the hard facts you need to know:
Sales start date: September 27, 2017. Product – what you will get:
- Sailfish OS image to flash to your Xperia device – our target is to have the downloadable image ready by October 11
- Android support, predictive text input, and MS exchange support as downloads from Jolla Store to your device
- SW updates for one year, after which a continuation program will follow
- Clear instructions and support for downloads & installation
- Jolla Customer Care service
Availability: EU, Norway, Switzerland; US & CA to be confirmed. Price: 49,90€ (including VAT)
Seems like quite the bizarre move for a company that has lost so much consumer faith.
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"My life is a soap opera, but who gets the movie rights?"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 31 2017, @02:10PM (2 children)
Purism [puri.sm] is doing an open source phone. Go and give them money!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 31 2017, @02:34PM (1 child)
They failed to produce anything of true value the last time around; why now would they be able to do something this next time, especially with regard to a sector of computing as locked down as "mobile"?
I'd rather see more efforts put behind RISC-V, and built up an ecosystem from 2 directions: The low-end and the high-end, and then one day have those ends meet at "mobile". If we're going to escape the proprietaryism, then we've got to do it thoroughly.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by zeigerpuppy on Friday September 01 2017, @01:20AM
I disagree, I think the current status of SailfishOS is quite an impressive achievement for a small company.
The OS is usable and there's some innovative third party tools. It's a really difficult space to compete in.
Firefox and Ubuntu failed in the same space remember. This company is vastly smaller and I think it deserves a bit more tolerance. I am in no way affiliated with Jolla but I like to see companies building software on a Linux base without Spyware build in.