Tag: jolla

Where Finland goes, iPhone follows

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How are you going to reach your apps on the new iPhone X with no home button? Gestures! Getting back to Home, as well as accessing App Grid and Top Menu rely on Edge Swipes. Perform an Edge Swipe by placing your finger at the very edge of the screen and moving it towards the center of the screen. Edge Swipe from top brings up the Top Menu. Oh sorry, that’s not the innovative first in iOS 11 and the iPhone X, that’s Sailfish OS and the Jolla handset from 2013. Still, a nice bit of innovation to not be ‘exactly’

Jolla drops the price of their flagship handset

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Nice to see that the Jolla handset has dropped 50 Euros and is down to 350 Euros. The Software has picked up regular updates since the first handsets (including my own) in December 2013. It’s still not as accessible and easy to use as your bog standard PAYG Android handset, but it’s certainly improved. If you’re the sort of person that likes to work with the leading edge, but are not quite ready to hand-roll OS’es or be happy to run a terminal app on your handset at regular intervals, rest assumed the Jolla has moved on from that point.

Ubuntu Mobile’s beta issues show the strength of Jolla

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Ars Technica takes a look at the latest build of Ubuntu Touch: Ubuntu Touch is coming along, but we recommend that you continue to treat this as a developer-only OS for testing and development purposes. Don’t install this on a phone you care about. Don’t install this on a phone you expect to get work done on. It’s usable in a basic sense, but especially compared to Android 4.4 (the software each of these gadgets would normally be running), it just isn’t ready for daily use yet—even if you’re a Ubuntu die-hard with the patience of a saint. When you

Sailfish OS leaves beta

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Jolla’s Sailfish OS has been updated to v1.0.4.20  (and Jolla Users has the full change-log). It’s still not perfect in terms of code (as witnessed by the known exceptions’ still listed), and in terms of usability by the general public I’m still not sold on Jolla’s Sailfish OS. But in terms of maturity and flexibility, it’s definitely there. I’ve had my UK Business SIM in the Jolla handset since January this year, including my time on the ground in Austin at SXSW. As I’ve said before, Jolla reminds me a lot of Psion, out on the cutting edge, a small

Jolla open sources the Sailfish OS browser

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I continue to be impressed by the commitment that Jolla is making to the Sailfish OS platform and hardware. That continues this week with the open sourcing of their web browser application: By now it’s a widely known fact that the browser is based on the Gecko engine which is developed by Mozilla corp. and is used in their Firefox browser and Firefox OS. For some reason it’s not that known that the Sailfish browser is built upon the EmbedLite embedding API (also known as IPCLiteAPI) for Gecko. This embedding API started as a research project in Nokia by Oleg

Reviewing the Jolla handset and Sailfish OS

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A few weeks after receiving Jolla’s first handset (called, er, the Jolla), I’ve posted an in-depth review of the Linux powered smartphone over on Forbes. All of that said, the Jolla handset has me excited. I’ve been following the project for some time, I ordered my device in May 2013 as part of the first wave of orders, and I knew that when it was delivered to me in December I was not getting a finished product… just a Finnish product. The Sailfish OS at the core of Jolla’s vision is delivering a stable environment and handles the mid-range specs