Pinephone with Sailfish OS?

Looking good! :)

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We can only hope

not using twitter. but my next phone after j1, which i currently use, will be pinephone. i would definitly buy a jolla license if they officially support it with dalvik and all. if they dont i will switch to ubuntu touch or plasma mobile. easy as that.

I had to dig up the login to my Jolla account (was last used approximately 6 years ago) to ask for Sailfish X with android app support for the pinephone.

I would love (and pay for) an official PinePhone support. I already tried the development version and it's very promising. I'm not sure this particular thread/comment section is sufficient to show our interest, but I'm not on twitter. I also hope to see an official Jolla account on the fediverse.

the open-source stack (upstream Linux kernel + Mesa open source 3D driver) is the very interesting part of this news (as opposed to yhe classic "special Linux kernel for Android + proprietary blob drivers from manufacturer + Jolla's libhybris hardware abstraction layer")

Its the old driver problem. If we could have everything open and in the kernel/mesa thats what all SFOS devices would use. Nothing that can be done about it. Its the chip manufacturers that are to blame.

well luckily with the PinePhone there's the Lima reverse engineered driver (for Mali).

And on an un-related question, there are news that AMD is considering licensing the notoriously open-source friendly Radeon cores to ARM embed CPU manufacturers.

(...again. As Qualcomm's Adreno (note the anagram :-P ) is the acquisition of ATI's previous Imageon foray into embed, back when ATI was still a separate company, pre-AMD merger)

@DrYak the rumors say that samsung will license them. BIg if true but we still don't know the details. Might not be open.

Also. Apart from the GPUs stuff like modems don't have open drivers.

Why is the PinePhone a better choice than a Sony?

Because Pine64's philosophy is about openness, choice, community. I thought Jolla's was as well, or am I wrong?

I was just curious, so thank you for answering.

100% spy proff, with physical switches.

Nothing is 100% spy-proof, but the switches adds a layer of security. There are switches on the Pinebook Pro laptop too.

Fingers crossed. :)

That would be awesome !

If they also included android app support. I'll buy it for any amount.

Maybe it is time to talk about a full campaign after all?

https://together.jolla.com/question/212003/a-jolla-branded-soft-cover-for-pinephone/

yeah its basically the latest sailfish with an open source homescreen and a few apps

I see your point, however is that an answer to the issue? Wouldn't a comment be more suitable?

I don't mind older hardware as long as it performs to my satisfaction. I used an iPhone 5s for about 5 years and was quite happy with it until Apple decided to drop 32bit support and thus half the apps I paid for. I got Sailfish X in the Xperia X once it left beta and it is working well for me since. I even hear there are happy users of the original Jolla Phone to this day. So, what's to complain about?

That said, I might consider switching to a new device - maybe the PinePhone? - if it gets me roughly the same performance, has Android support, but a better camera.

if it is "only" the community edition and not officially supported i will probably use ubuntu on the phone instead of sailfish.

so - yes - official support plz with dalvik for those few apps that sadly will never make its way to the smaller systems (commute, banking).

Specifications are absolutly fine - especially looking at the price No one really needs that shiny, bigger, better, faster phone with another dozen cameras more. Who gives a fuck if it doesnt hold the record in whatever. It has many other things to offer that other new phones have not - and hopefully will be the phone to replace my J1 (yeah - this is still enough for daily use also - no Sony needed).

Just idealism is bs. Then no phone with mid or low specs would sell.

There's older hardware...then there's 2gb of RAM and 16gb of onboard storage in 2020. Not even Apple, notorious for trying to limit on device storage to sell iCloud subscriptions offers something that meager.

So what? Pinephone specs and what it offers are good for the price. It is more then enough power and storage for every normal usage. So what does a phone need in 2020? 16 front cameras? A processor that sucks the battery dry the fastest? There has not really been a big difference in phone development besides little higher numbers that don't make much of a difference for years.

No one really needs a bigger, better, faster, more shiny new phone, car, wife or husband every 2 or less years.

You don't like it? Then (you) don't get it.