Tag: sailfish os

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’

Project Ara and the dream of a modular pocket computer

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Google’s Project Ara is no more. The failure of Ara shouldn’t be seen as the inability to make a modular smartphone where users can replace parts (after all, Fairphone seem to be doing rather well with Fairphone 2… I just wish the team would hurry up and get Sailfish running on the Dutch handset). Ara’s cancellation feels like the realisation of Android’s commercial nature. Modular smartphones are not going to be as efficient as custom-built sealed units. The software cannot be tightly optimised around specific hardware, the modular components require connectors to a central spine, they’ll need to be larger

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

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

In Jolla the hackers finally have a smartphone they can fiddle with

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Arriving just before the holidays, I’ve finally had some time to sit down with the Jolla I ordered as part of the first batch of FInnish smartphones are write a proper preview of the handset. Given I can spend a decent amount of time with it, a full review is going to take another week or two, but here are my first thoughts: Differentiating in hardware is not Jolla’s goal – it’s all about the software and specifically about Sailfish OS. Sailfish OS is based on the Mer project, which was built on the MeeGo project, which itself was a