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Jolla: Ex-Nokia Employees Launch Smartphone (MeeGo Resurrected)
mrspoonsi writes "A team of ex-Nokia employees has released the first handset running on a new smartphone platform. The Jolla phone — pronounced Yol-la — is powered by open-source operating system Sailfish, but can run most apps designed for Google's Android platform. The platform — originally called MeeGo — was developed by Nokia, but dumped in 2011 in favour of the company adopting the Windows Phone system. Nokia released just one handset running the software, the N9-00. Antti Saarnio, chairman and co-founder of Jolla, told the BBC in May that MeeGo — now called Sailfish — had not been given enough chance to succeed."
Dupe much?
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You posted this story yesterday.
Except yesterday here is today in Australia and Japan.
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THE STORY SHALL BE REPOSTED UNTIL THE CRYING CEASES.
Think of it as less of a dupe and more of a commandment to buy one.
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Actually, yesterday here in Australia is today in backwards regions like the USA.
And if you need it spelled out to you: Install Rhythm Software File Manager. It can not only browse files stored on your tablet but also copy whole folders on and off a Windows or Samba share.
Actually, as an experienced MeeGo developer, this just makes me sad because they won't sell one to North Americans. Nokia did this to us with the N9 too, but at least they sent me a developer device. These guys still haven't released the official GSM/LTE frequencies it supports for some stupid reason, so I don't even know if I should bother trying to import one.
Yeah, the lack of a microSD slot is a deal killer, but it's your fault for buying a tablet without checking the specs.
Circumcision is child abuse.
If it's a Finnish company not owned by Microsoft or any other company in cahoots with the NSA, this could be the only smartphone worth buying anymore.
Antti's brother, Prro Saarnio, disagreed.
There's no -1 for "I don't get it."
Sailfish is more like a traditional GNU/Linux distribution. The Android compatibility is a useful feature, but the idea is not that most apps should need it. It's very much a continuation of Meego.
Sorry I just don't trust a continent where the toilets flow backwards.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_vs._Australia#Reaction_in_Australia
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more like mer + meego, kinda.
and well if they did that then it would just be a bunch of android apps now wouldn't it? and yes they're using android HAL since it simplifies buying the parts/pre manufactured phones a lot..
if they just did a devkit for android they wouldn't be a phone design company though would they?
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
...and I am sold.
I tried the iPhone. Didn't like it, too much of a walled garden.
I tried Android. It's UI sucks. Huge incosistences all around.
I will stick with my N900 until a Sailfish phone with a hardware keyboard arrives.
Am sure this new model is an "Android Metoo" phone.
Far fom it! Sailfish has a very distinct feel and it actually goes back a few years, being from the same lineage of Meego and Maemo before it. Check out the main interface features in this short video. And it's a proper GNU/Linux system (as opposed to Android/Linux), if you're into that sort of thing.
To be fair, yesterday existed, so the editors might not have been paying full attention to the site.
FTFY
No colour or religion ever stopped the bullet from a gun
Otherwise, I'd stick with iOS - also iOS (like Windows and Metro) has a hybrid kernel, unlike Android or Linux.
ZOMG SOME RANDOM BITS OF DARWIN LIVE IN USERLAND AND GET MESSAGES FROM THE KERNEL THAT'S SO KOOL!!!!!!1111ONE!!!!!!!!!
And, whilst NT has a bit more such stuff, neither of them are sufficiently different from an Old Fashioned Monolithic Kernel to be particularly interesting in that regard.
I was internal to the project. I can assure you that comment on wikipedia is bollocks.
...), we never used the intended/expected public code numbers, as they could change at any time. I have seen an n950 with "n9" stamped on the case, for example.
We used the hardware numbers (RX- or RM- something), and the code names (Rover, Lankku,
Also FatPhil on SoylentNews, id 863
'just replicate the damn Android API, piece by piece, it is open is it not? '
The open parts of the API work.
The problem is that increasing parts of the android API are closed, being implemented not by open source code, but by closed source binaries with licences that do not permit redistribution by other manufacturers.
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-10/21/googles-iron-grip-on-android
'Play Services is a closed source app owned by Google and licensed as part of the Google Apps package. Any feature you see move from "normal" Android to Google Play Services is also moving from open source to closed source. This app pulls off the neat trick of not only enticing users with exclusive, closed source features, but locking in third-party developers with Google's proprietary APIs as well.'
This is entirely by (googles) design, and for exactly this reason.
To make it hard for third party vendors to release devices which run android apps because an increasing fraction of them won't work as time and increasing integration into Play Services happens.
I have not investigated, but would suspect that the various APIs were designed around patents google owns or controls, in order to make implementing the backend supporting the API legally impossible in many countries.
The platform â" originally called MeeGo â" was developed by Nokia
Uh what? It's a merge of Moblin, from Intel, and Maemo from Nokia. And the nicest-looking interface is from Moblin. Nice Nokia fellation, though, submitter.
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