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Jolla to Sell OS Image for Sony Phone

posted by Fnord666 on Thursday August 31 2017, @01:43PM   
from the who-buys-an-os-in-2017? dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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.

Seen on Phoronix

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Original Submission

• My skepticism was proved right the first time My skepticism was proved right the first time (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 31 2017, @02:34PM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 31 2017, @02:34PM (#562129)

  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.

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• Re:My skepticism was proved right the first time (Score: 4, Insightful) by zeigerpuppy on Friday September 01 2017, @01:20AM

  by zeigerpuppy (1298) on Friday September 01 2017, @01:20AM (#562374)

  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.

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