In addition to its native applications, Sailfish can run some Android applications by installing them from an application store or directly through an APK file. Supported Android versions are 4.1.2 "Jelly Bean" on the original Jolla phone; 4.4.4 "Kit-Kat" on the Jolla C, Jolla tablet and Xperia X; 8.1.0 "Oreo", 9 "Pie" and 10 (depending on the Sailfish OS release) on Xperia XA2, Xperia 10 and Xperia 10 II.[37] Problems can arise if these applications were built without following Android standards about controls, which might not display correctly and so become unusable.
"It's a question of agreeing with whoever the partners are that the user can download the application from 'app store X'," Jolla CEO Tomi Pienimäki told our sister site ZDNet. "There are quite a lot of stores where we can get Android."
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Could we live with this instead of Android? Probably. You'll be able to sideload .apk files as well as install apps directly from a Sailfish app store, so in theory should be able to replicate the parts of the Android experience you want to keep relatively easily.
The hope is that third-party brands will create their own covers, which consumers can then buy to unlock new content from within the Jolla store, including apps, wallpapers, fonts and sounds. Barcelona Football Club, for example, could offer a background image of the team and a well-known chant or anthem as the ringtone.
History of MeeGoNokia was working on a Linux Smartphone project named Maemo (2010) before collaborating with Microsoft. Later, the Maemo project got involved with Intel Corporation where they named it MeeGo OS. Nokia released this OS in one of their devices i.e Nokia N9 which is liked by many people specially developers. It was the first and last smartphone running on MeeGo. After that, they closed this project to entirely focus on Windows phones.As a result, many key developers of MeeGo left the company. They started a company called Jolla where they created Sailfish OS. Most of the source code was taken from MeeGo only. Basically, Sailfish is a continuation of MeeGo but not owned by Nokia. Sailfish can run all apps created with Qt and a few android apps too.
Furthermore, the development of Sailfish OS did not make the progress I had wished for. While Sailfish 2.0 introduced a lot of changes and made the UX better, it also left some inconsistencies in the interface that were never fixed. The included sailfish-browser is still based on an old Gecko release and was falling behind. Other apps such as the email client never saw any significant update and was barely usable for me. But also the rest under the hood did not even catch up to Android or iOS. Starting out as a normal Linux distribution, Sailfish OS also adopted the security policies as we still see it today on the Linux desktop. Any app can read almost all your files. There is no sandboxing and no app permissions. After more than four years of development, that is quite ridiculous from a security perspective. And while the official app store is open for native apps, not all API and hardware features are allowed. Often enough the version in the app store would not offer all features that are actually implemented (most apps are open source software), but you have to get the app directly from the developer and side-load them to get everything.
Jolla runs the company's own Sailfish OS, which is based on the MeeGo OS that Nokia smartphones ran before switching to Microsoft's Windows Phone 8. Even though Jolla runs Sailfish, the phone will be compatible with Android apps, which means users could potentially have hundreds of thousands of apps to choose from, assuming the developers submit their apps to the Sailfish app store.
A group of ex-Nokia employees who quit over the company's decision to abandon the planned MeeGo operating system in favour of Windows presented their own smartphone on Monday, hoping to rival the sector's giants. googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1449240174198-2'); ); The Jolla smartphone, which is entirely intuitive and has no buttons, is "a strong candidate" on the mid- to high-range market, the Helsinki-based company said.The model, which is so far just called Jolla, has a 4.5-inch touch screen and features two different-coloured halves that together make up the phone.It is to go on sale in the fourth quarter, retailing for 399 euros ($513).The company is profiling itself as a "different" manufacturer, and runs on its own operating system called Sailfish OS, a successor to MeeGo and which is compatible with some Android applications.The company is offering Sailfish products to retailer and operator partners for the medium-price range.According to Marc Dillon, head of Sailfish development, existing operating systems "do not really support a great deal of flexibility. One (iOS) is completely closed and one (Android) pushes its own services pretty heavily.""I see that Sailfish will be used on lots of different devices from other manufacturers as well. We have a constant stream of interest," he told AFP.Dillon said he would be "very happy with one million sold devices in one year."Jolla hopes to take on markets in China, Europe and North Africa, but not the United States. Mikael Rautanen, an analyst at equity research company Inderes, deemed the new phone's technical qualities as average but said Jolla's innovative strategy and moderate pricing may appeal to the public."If Jolla manages to sell two million phones in the year following the launch, then we can talk about success," he said.Smartphone operating systems are dominated by Google's Android and Apple's iOS. Jolla's Sailfish, like Microsoft's Windows and Mozilla's Firefox, are trying to break their dominance on the market.Nordea bank analyst Sami Sarkamies was pessimistic about Jolla's chances of making it big as a smartphone maker.However, "the platform (operating system) that they're developing has a lot more potential," he said.Jolla has already signed two distribution deals, with the largest smartphone retailer in China, D.Phone, and the Finnish operator DNA.The Sailfish OS will also run on tablets.Jolla, which counts four former Nokia engineers and directors among its five founders, was started in 2011 and now has some 70 employees. More information:join.jolla.com/en 2013 AFP
Purism handles data security by making sure to store data in anencrypted format. For all communications, including phone calls, itprovides the popular free Matrixsoftware. Any two correspondents who use Matrix-based applications,such as the Riot chat tool, havestrong privacy guarantees. These applications can recognize when you arecommunicating with a correspondent who doesn't use Matrix, and fall back oncommunicating in the clear. So you can still call a friend or company whodoesn't have a secure client; you just don't get the protection ofencryption. The Librem 5 could also potentially join a mesh network ofsecure devices that communicatewithout the need for centralized, proprietary network providers.
Canonical failed because, to be frank, the people managing Ubuntu Phone were idiots. From Mir to Unity 8, everything they did was ghastly. With the right people, they could have gone to market years earlier.Plasma Phone hasn't failed, because it still exists, and wasn't dependent upon external adulation anyway.Sailfish still exists, so it hasn't failed yet.But, then, if you cannot perceive the difference in approach towards a free software phone between nokia, intel, canonical, jolla, plasma or purism, you're blind. Every contender has approached the issue from a different perspective. But outside the free software community you won't find the fixity of purpose behind Plasma, which has zeroed in on convergence since the oughties.And then... If the purism campaign works, and they ship me a phone that works according to their specs, I'll be glad, even if they go broke after that. I'll have a device I can use without being a product, again. Steps toward a privacy-preserving phone Posted Oct 7, 2017 7:55 UTC (Sat) by jukk (guest, #90142) [Link]
The threat to privacy on phones is not the OS itself, but the various proprietary add-ons (Gapps) that extend the OS, proprietary Vendor-specific extensions, proprietary drivers, black box radio equipment with it's own embedded OS and other bits and pieces that can be embedded in proprietary hardware and firmware.Thus the most critical problem to tackle at this point is the hardware. Having the phone itself be as open source as possible with the legally mandated (whether through IP or FCC/etc) black box portions being separated out with physical switches to disconnect them is a terrific step in the right direction. The next most critical part is to get the OS up to the point were it can be a usable smart phone OS with open drivers and necessary application support. The replacement for proprietary extensions and drivers need to be improved/written and application stores and development support and documentation needs to be sorted out. If you start off with Android you are already 95% the way there. People could have a really viable and useful platform in a few months. If you start off with a custom OS based on Debian it's going to take a few years. I am certainly not against people making their own custom OS. I think it's a worthy project and probably can be very rewarding. It just depends on what your goals are. That's all. The lessons people need to learn if they are aiming for something for a wider audience are the same ones that Microsoft, Nokia, Samsung, Blackberry, and many others have learned: If you try to compete against Android then you lose. I will probably buy a Purism phone, but I'll be running Android on it. Google-free. Steps toward a privacy-preserving phone Posted Oct 7, 2017 14:33 UTC (Sat) by debacle (subscriber, #7114) [Link] 2ff7e9595c
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