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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 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.