Official fxtec Pro1 Sailfish Support
Hey Sailors!
Sailfish still has many problems and support for XA, XA2, Gemini leaves a lot to desire. But I still want to bring some light to a device that has been talked about previously in TJC: fxtec Pro1. Android phone with unlocked bootloader, physical keyboard, curved screen.
Some alpha adaptation is already done by one of the key developers for Pro1:
https://twitter.com/chenliangchen/status/1114494724264595457
They seem to have some talks with Sailfish team, but unsure how much:
https://www.fxtec.com/forums/topic/alternative-os-availability-common-entry/page/2/#post-11194
I posted a brief history of the OS on their forums and asked about the situation. Probably not 100% accurate and there are some major simplifications, but I tried.
https://www.fxtec.com/forums/topic/pro1-and-sailfish-os/
I have also tried to contact one of Sailfish Team members via email, but have not heard back or any comment. Not surprising, but hey I had to try.
But yeah, I think conversation over this would be interesting and any response from the dev team of course appreciated. Official support with Android apps would be awesome for this kind of "high end" phone. Personally, I will probably buy it for the keyboard alone.
COMMUNITY PORT
[Fxtec Forum] Community Port: Sailfish OS 3.1 for Fxtec Pro1
Tweet collection of the port so far:
By Michał Szczepaniak
by Adam Pigg
VIDEO: Switch from software to hardware keyboard
PICTURE: NFC reading and writing via command line
Other Pro1 Sailfish updates:
Waxberry's vague comment about future options after community port is done
Chenliangchen will be presenting the F(x)tec Pro1 running SailfishOS at FrOSCon 2019!
14.8.2019 - Maemo.org member did a short Q&A with Michał Szczepaniak about State of the port
It's very interesting... :)
Asmir ( 2019-06-23 22:31:59 +0200 )editThat sounds interesting, if it will ever be delivered. A person chenliangchen was involved in the Youyota Tablet on Indiegogo, but this has not been delivered to date. Now here is someone who calls himself Liangchen Chen, with his new project ;-). Attention!
s_mario ( 2019-06-23 23:35:57 +0200 )editYeah, all Sailfish Tablet projects were pretty much disasters. But I hope this phone succeeds, since there are very few products like it. Official Sailfish support would just seal the deal for me, but hard to say if it will ever happen.
Sefriol ( 2019-06-24 02:33:07 +0200 )edit@s_mario you were disinformated about chenliangchen in Youyota project. That's sad.
coderus ( 2019-06-24 13:43:35 +0200 )edit@coderus I would say, we were misinformed by chenliangchen in the Youyota Tablet Thread. He was something like a Rat catcher ;-). But maybe his own product will come true.
s_mario ( 2019-06-24 18:03:22 +0200 )edit