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Jolla Sailfish pitches a "European phone" for users wary of Google and Apple
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Alphane Moon lemmy.world Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-06-09
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Link: https://www.techspot.com/news/111540-jolla-sailfish-pitches-european-phone-users-wary-google.html
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rnercle sh.itjust.works merde@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-06-27
#2 · Quote Reply

Priced at €649, the Jolla Phone is not intended for the mass market, and company leadership has acknowledged that it will remain a niche product.
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erebion news.erebion.eu erebion@news.erebion.eu
Joined: 2025-11-20
#3 · Quote Reply
  • it uses a downstream Android kernel
  • it does not use a mainline kernel
  • the Android kernel creates dependencies and makes it difficult to keep up to date for more than a couple years
  • their AppSuport is literally Android in a container with some proprietary parts
  • their apps are scarce as they need to be built for the OS (no Flatpak or any other support for the existing mobile Linux software)
  • the UI and some other components are proprietary

I believe those points make clear why I see more of a future in projects like Mobian, postmarketOS, Fedora Pocketblue.
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naeap sopuli.xyz naeap@sopuli.xyz
Joined: 2023-06-03
#4 · Quote Reply
erebion wrote:
it uses a downstream Android kernel it does not use a mainline kernel the Android kernel creates dependencies and makes it difficult to keep up to date for more than a couple years their AppSuport is literally Android in a container with some proprietary parts their apps are scarce as they need to be built for the OS (no Flatpak or any other support for the existing mobile Linux software) the U...

Sure about the Android kernel?
I was pretty convinced they use a Linux kernel and only have an Android app compatibility layer
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