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posted by mrpg on Tuesday February 27 2018, @03:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the ok dept.

What, it's not Android?

Jolla Announces Sailfish 3 With Feature Phone Support – MWC 2018

Finnish mobile OS developer Jolla is attending Mobile World Congress 2018 in Barcelona, Spain, where the company has officially announced Sailfish 3, the next-generation independent mobile OS built on a five-year software legacy. The company also announced a handful of new devices that have joined the Sailfish ecosystem and it revealed its plans for a new branch of its mobile operating system which was designed specifically for 4G-enabled feature phones as it sets out to allow select Android app access on low-spec hardware for consumers who don't need or want a full-fledged smartphone.

One of the biggest changes introduced with the latest Sailfish 3 OS lies in the way the software can be distributed through regional licensing, providing full support for regional infrastructure which should lead to steady upgrade releases and more. As for the mobile operating system itself, Sailfish 3 should provide 30-percent faster performance, improved multitasking with the ability to quickly switch between applications, as well as a redesigned top menu containing actions and settings. The mobile operating system employs a new visual style comprising new ambiances, light themes, and animations, while also offering new security solutions including revised architecture, fingerprint support, encryption, remote locking and wiping capabilities, as well as enablers for blockchain-based services.

Sailfish OS.

Press release. Also at TechCrunch, Engadget, and NDTV.

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  • (Score: 2) by tekk on Tuesday February 27 2018, @04:56AM (3 children)

    by tekk (5704) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday February 27 2018, @04:56AM (#644482)

    Did the refunds never happen? My understanding was that they got sent out slowly but they were *eventually* sent out. Maybe you just got lost somewhere? At least complaints about refunds have quieted down on the Sailfish subreddits for a while, maybe they just gave up hope.

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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by MadTinfoilHatter on Tuesday February 27 2018, @10:00AM (1 child)

    by MadTinfoilHatter (4635) on Tuesday February 27 2018, @10:00AM (#644550)

    The refunds are still ongoing. [jolla.com] They didn't have enough money to return all the money to everyone at once, so they repaid half of it. Last year they refunded the latter half to 83 randomly chosen individuals. (I, myself have gotten the first repayment but wasn't one of the 83 lucky ones.)

    I don't think the situation is as bad as the GP is making it out to be, even though I'm disappointed to not be the owner of a Jolla tablet. What happened was effectively that

    1) software development got costlier than expected

    2) some other deals they were counting on fell through

    This was enough to mess everything up for them, because a small company doesn't have huge margins. I agree that they did a very poor PR job at communicating the situation, though, which is why some people were left with the impression that they just blew the money on software development instead of actually delivering the tablets. (In reality the SW and HW development went hand-in-hand. The old SW wouldn't have worked as-is on the new hardware.)

    • (Score: 2) by Bot on Tuesday February 27 2018, @02:10PM

      by Bot (3902) on Tuesday February 27 2018, @02:10PM (#644612) Journal

      > 1) software development got costlier than expected

      that's strange, they had chosen to rely on systemd, what can possibly go wrong...

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  • (Score: 2) by opinionated_science on Tuesday February 27 2018, @12:54PM

    by opinionated_science (4031) on Tuesday February 27 2018, @12:54PM (#644594)

    I got my refund - 03/16/2016. Jumped through some hoops if I recall...