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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

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

The CrunchPad will be remembered as a signpost to new computing

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And so the CrunchPad is placed by it’s spiritual father, Michael Arrington, into the Dead Pool. I doubt it’s the last we’ll see of the device, but it’s certainly the last we’ll see of it with the CrunchPad moniker. The legalese may be in motion but some warehouse is going to churn these out within six months. All the real world stuff aside, I’m sad that the CrunchPad isn’t going to be available. Looking at that picture of the circuit board there’s a juicy 1850mah battery, an express PCMCIA 3G card, Intel Atom 1.6 CPU (perhaps a Z or N

The Twin Bait and Switches of Jolicloud

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There has been a lot of buzz around Jolicoud on the Internet for some time now. This west coast based start-up has been promoting a new ‘Social Operating System’ for the rising population of Netbook computers around the world. They’ve been teasing with their screenshots, showing off their social dashboard for application installs and generally rather luscious graphics. My invite to the limited numbers beta came through recently and I set about making a USB key to try it out on my Netbook. Now a word of warning to anyone trying to get me switching to an alternate Operating System on

The TechCrunch CrunchPad Is The Future of Fabrication

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A fair amount of buzz today over Michael Arrington’s posting of details of his Tablet Computing prototype over on TechCrunch. Arrington is looking to make a slate-style touch screen device, running at 1024×768, and booting directly to a Webkit based browser. It looks ungainly now – although I think the Duplo based stand (*) in the demo video should be included in the retail pack – but his target of $300 retail price is ambitious and places it in the impulse buy in many tech stores. I’m not going to go down the route of many blogs that are trying

Bringing Balance To The [OS] Force…

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Quote of the day so far has to be in the New York Times article on Ubuntu, from the man driving the project, Mark Shuttleworth, the Self-Appointed Benevolent Dictator for Life. “Look, I have a very privileged life, right?” Mr. Shuttleworth said. “I am a billionaire, bachelor, ex-cosmonaut. Life couldn’t easily be that much better. Being a Linux geek sort of brings balance to the force.” Via the NY Times.