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Sailfish Can Officially Be Installed To Android Devices

Posted by timothy on from the jolla-good-old-chap dept.

jones_supa writes "Talouselämä Magazine met Jolla CEO Tomi Pienimäki and asked a puzzling question. If Jolla truly is compatible with Android devices, is Jolla going to let individual users to install the Sailfish operating system on the Android devices that they already have? Pienimäki answers: 'That is the plan. We are on device business and OS business. It is fairly easy to install the OS on Android devices'. He says that especially in China, changing firmwares is a mainstream thing. About half of the smartphone buyers are upgrading their older or cheaper devices with a better version of Android. Therefore, Jolla's plan is to get some Sailfish installations sneaked in, too."

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  1. What's Jolla? What's Sailfish? by wonkey_monkey · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Talouselämä Magazine met Jolla CEO Tomi Pienimäki and asked a puzzling question. If Jolla truly is compatible with Android devices, is Jolla going to let individual users to install the Sailfish operating system on the Android devices that they already have?

    That certainly is a puzzling question if you have absolutely no idea what Jolla and Sailfish are.

    Go ahead, rant and rave all you want and ask me how I dare to read Slashdot if I don't know what they are already, but would it kill you just to give a hint of what Jolla and Sailfish are? At least then I'd have some idea whether the article might fall within my interest without having to research it. That is what a summary is meant to be for, isn't it?

    And it can be done so easily without looking like you've dumbed it down - they do it all the time proper news sites.

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  2. Re:Interesting. by substance2003 · · Score: 5, Informative

    I believe such a phone already exists.

    http://oppostyle.com/find-5/8-find-5-white.html#/capacity-16gb