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2019-07-17 14:17:20 +0200
I would also be very interested, if you can't reach an agreement with deutch. Email: nicolas.werner@hotmail.de
Edit: Story
I don't really have a good history with Sailfish tablets. I backed the original Jolla tablet, but didn't get one. Then I backed the Youyota campaign, which is its own story of failure. I only learned from your post, that the Aigo x86 actually is almost the same device, so that gave me hope, that I may finally get a chance for a Sailfish tablet. (Even if I don't get yours, I may be able to get my hands on a different Aigo). A non Sailfish device is not really an option for me, since I'm used to the gestures since the N9, had one of the early Jolla 1s, gifted my little sister one and am now using an X compact. An iOS device wouldn't work that well with my Linux infrastructure and automated backups and I prefer to avoid Android devices, because of lock in, support and I don't really know, what Google does with my data. I've just been happy with Sailfish (and Meego/Harmattan before that) so far and see no reason to change.
I actually want to use the tablet for my studies, as I much prefer reading from a screen, than having to carry a bundle of paper, that can't be searched and you have to print every week. I also often admin my servers from my phone, but a bigger screen and keyboard could certainly be helpful at times. I also recently started developing a Matrix client for Sailfish (based on the mtxclient library, which I am now one of the main developers of). Looking how my app scales to different screen sizes would certainly be interesting (altough I may be able to make do with the emulator) and I found that compiling x86 rpms is a lot faster than compiling for arm, probably because it doesn't have to use qemu. This is fine, when you can use gcc4.9 as shipped by the SDK, because that is one of the "accelerated" binaries (doesn't have to use qemu), but if you use a custom built gcc, that doesn't work and some source files take up to 5 minutes to compile in that case (yay for boost). Having a real x86 device would help a lot in that case, since typing in the emulator and other interactions are a bit awkward. I'd stick to gcc4.9, but it seems like Boost.Asio doesn't play that nice with it, altough I'm still investigating those performance issues.
All that said, receiving the tablet for free would be a bit awkward. In that case giving it to a developer, that actually shipped a good application (like a accumulator) or who contributed a lot to the community (like the other guys that answered) would be a better choice in my opinion, but its your choice.
What is the price? mail santhoshmanikandan114@gmail.com
santhoshmanikandan ( 2019-07-17 12:44:06 +0200 )edit