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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 melikamp on Tuesday February 27 2018, @07:07PM (2 children)

    by melikamp (1886) on Tuesday February 27 2018, @07:07PM (#644730) Journal

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailfish_OS

    Source model Open source with added closed-source components and/or extensions of third parties which can be of other licences as well.

    https://sailfishos.org/wiki/SailfishOS_Source

    The base layer source code is usually[sic] proprietary, and thus is generally not available for public access.

    That's Joomla's spyware/backdoor stack. Android Runtime they supply is a blob, so Google gets an in. Other parties I mentioned get access in a well-documented manner. If you just look at the Replicant project, the open issues they have, you realize that it's not practical to talk to wireless towers without a telecom blob, and it's not possible to make certain drivers work in that form factor. These are not technical issues, to be sure, these are all the ongoing abuses by the telecom cartel, which is closely aligned with the hardware cartel and the copyright mafia.

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  • (Score: 2) by melikamp on Tuesday February 27 2018, @07:14PM

    by melikamp (1886) on Tuesday February 27 2018, @07:14PM (#644737) Journal
    s/Joomla/Jolla/
  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 28 2018, @01:21AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 28 2018, @01:21AM (#644907)

    yeah, they wanted to talk about FOSS,meego, etc but they're just slaveware peddling douchbags. i'd like to use their macbook's to knock their horn rimmed glasses off of their whore faces.