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
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 31 2017, @05:48PM (5 children)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/sony_rootkit [wikipedia.org]
never forget, never forgive
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 31 2017, @07:35PM
And the otheros fiasco.
(Score: 2, Troll) by frojack on Thursday August 31 2017, @07:57PM (3 children)
I'm far more pissed off at Sailfish than I am with Sony.
Sony never rooted any of my devices because I never bought their over-priced crapware anyway.
But Sailfish took my money, failed to deliver a tablet, and never refunded the money.
If any of them set foot in the US I hope they find a warrant waiting for them.
They soured me on crowd funding in a way I will never forget.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by etherscythe on Thursday August 31 2017, @08:33PM (1 child)
Overpriced it may be, but I found my Z3 Compact came with a rather good OEM distro (remember when you could get a week of use from a phone without needing to recharge? I've got that with Stamina Mode). I just wish root were supported, and the usual suspects have failed to deliver a good solution for that - one day I had a SuperSU update soft brick my phone and I haven't gotten it rooted again since.
"Fake News: anything reported outside of my own personally chosen echo chamber"
(Score: 2) by jbernardo on Friday September 01 2017, @01:52PM
Strange, my Z5 can be and is rooted. Thankfully I was even able to do a temporary root without unlocking, to backup the TA partition.
(Score: 2) by jbernardo on Friday September 01 2017, @06:43AM
I also got swindled by them. Their little game of lying to their backers on the tablet progress while all the backers amongst was being spent in adapting the OS for selling to OEM maybe wasn't illegal but certainly was immoral. And now their refund roulette, so that they can claim to be doing refunds as promised while only refunding less than 4% of the backers, is adding insult to injury.
OTOH, I am quite happy with Sony Xperia line. Easy to unlock the bootloader, vendor provided AOSP sources and Images, and a light and fast android variant by default, together with great hardware. I just wish for removable batteries and a lower price, but even my Z1 compact is still working perfectly after 5 years, and has more than paid itself.