Sailfish OS on Lenovo's Shenqi
asked 2015-01-23 14:01:45 +0200
Lenovo is building up a new online-only brand to compete with Xiaomi. It will need, most of all, a very good user experience to counterpart MIUI. Wouldn't be great if they should choose Sailfish OS to do that?
Hmm, i think, there is a lot on their plate already. IMO,Jolla priority is now to build a Sailfish OS 2.0 and also release the tablet. With a small team like theirs, even this seems a daunting task to me. Of course, am sure they will pull it off. BTW am not saying they should not take this up but seems rather unlikely at the moment.
anandrkris ( 2015-01-23 14:48:22 +0200 )editYes, it would definitely be nice to start seeing Sailfish on some other hardware from other manufacturers. I notice that Mozilla is already working with some manufacturers to push Firefox OS (including a smart TV), Ubuntu touch is announced to be available on a new phone soon. Jolla's not made visible progress yet afaik.
That's not bad per se, if Jolla can develop the OS anf ecosystem to a higher level where it might become an interesting choice for other phone brands. I'm not sure if that should be an online price fighter brand, though. I think Jolla's vision was originally to provide network and content providers with with an option to launch their own phones and free themselves from the stronghold of the two ecosystem leaders. There must definitely be an opportunity in EU to launch a privacy oriented phone with EU OS by a large mobile operator who can get local content devs to start working for Sailfish.
bilgy_no1 ( 2015-01-24 10:02:26 +0200 )edit