Time for Sailfish OS 3 smartwatch support

answered 2018-11-09 23:59:27 +0300

lolek
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Idea is good, but I think the priority should be to fix most important bugs.

answered 2018-11-11 22:37:22 +0300

mlohse
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Top priority must be to make the phones ready for daily life (work). If important hardware and features, like Bluetooth, sufficient battery-life/charging, NFC, device encryption, Android Support (Here Maps, etc..), Browser (must be kept up-to-date!), VoLTE, Camera, etc. are not working (properly) people don't have another choice than moving away to another OS and that would be the death of SailfishOS - no matter how many other fancy gadgets, like watches or tablets are (half-)supported.

answered 2020-01-05 20:35:12 +0300

d
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Look at this porting of @g7 !!! https://twitter.com/eugenio_g7/status/1212768309709606914

answered 2018-11-10 10:08:35 +0300

shiro kitsune
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There is always the community. And on a smartwatch we don't need the proprietary stuff for starters. I'd say: happy porting. If the basics are done, it is much easier for the few folks at Jolla to pick up the work.

P.S. someone knows how difficult it would be to flash a third party OS onto a smartwatch? I have only a bit of experience with embedded controllers and smartphones

answered 2018-11-10 12:26:42 +0300

ApB
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No. The more i think about it the more i come to the conclusion that wearables like that solve no problem. Yes apple gets away with it because its products are status symbols but i doubt anyone else managed to create a product that will appeal to anyone beyond the gadget freaks.

answered 2018-11-09 23:33:27 +0300

Allstar12345
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I would certainly love to try it, Wear OS has to be the slowest thing on the planet

answered 2018-11-14 21:31:04 +0300

Firefox84
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updated 2018-11-25 22:22:18 +0300

Tizen the smartphone OS of Samsung is also based on Meego and Mer, so maybe Sailfish OS devices and Tizen Smartwatches would work quite well together. Maybe there could be some kind of cooperation of Jolla and Samsung to make this devices as interoperable as possible, maybe also with cross plattform Apps and so on. What does it make as a sense to buy a Sailfish OS Phone because of privacy reasons, and then to run an Android Smartwatch with your most important data in life, your health. So wether there must be something coming from the side of jolla or at least cooperation of Jolla with non Android Smartwatches :)

answered 2018-11-10 10:46:07 +0300

ghling
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I'm in, the moment Jolla announces a SFOS Smartwatch. However, I suspect they won't do that since they gave up on the hardware business (remember the Tablet disaster?). And the existing few smartwatch vendors are more or less focused on Android Wear.

So yeah, we're probably stuck with community-built systems for existing smartwatches. Unfortunately, the last time I checked AsteroidOS a few months back, there still was no usable SFOS Companion App (only some year-old alpha version). So my hopes on using an AsteroidOS powered device are (sadly) pretty low.

I'd say the best way would probably be to implement support for Android Wear, if a universal connector exists. That way you could pair any of those smartwatches with your SFOS device (and hopefully isolate it from the internet / control which data gets transmitted). But I suspect that every vendor has its own protocol which makes this idea obsolete.

But of course, I'm hoping that I'm wrong in some point and we will see a good smartwatch for SFOS soon (especially, since the battery of my Pebble starts getting weaker).

answered 2018-11-14 14:22:42 +0300

Niko
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Just broke my Pebble Time Round, so it would be cool if any other smartwatch would be supported by SailfishOS. Of course there's always an option to try to find old Pebble...