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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.
Seen on Phoronix
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(Score: 2) by Aiwendil on Friday September 01 2017, @11:25AM
Last person that tried to sell me a bridge actually delivered ;) (yes, that expression is hillarious if you work in infrastructure and at time actually order bridges)
It seems I fail to be clear.
What is needed is essentielly that it is vetted about as well as normal android upgrades from manufacturer per model, but for quite a bit longer (excepting the battery smartphone hardware tends to be useful for close to a decade, if you are lucky the mfg keeps updating the software for three years). Backed with some "oops, let us assign a tech for the bug and ship a new update"-support.