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Re: KaiOS

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Post by JansjoFromIkea »

slykar wrote: post #9

If only there was a nice feature phone with KaiOS in Europe. Nokia 8110 sucks because of the sliding panel which makes it much harder to type on the bottom key row. T9 seemed to be worse than on other Nokia phones. I would love to see a new Nokia 3310 with KaiOS.

any idea whether you can do public transport google maps searches on either the 3310 or 8110? Even if it's just via the browser would be fine.

Looking for a T9 phone to keep me from mindlessly browsing stuff all the time but would likely still need maps to figure out bus routes home and such.

Re: KaiOS

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Post by postcynical »

I used the Nokia 8110 with KaiOS as a digital detox phone during holidays. It has working email, whats app, google map, hotspot. It has enough features to "survive" and answer or triage the occasional fires from work. And it is unusable enough that i don't use it for non important stuff (chatting, browsing, etc). Ironically its bad UI/UX is it's main selling point.

Re: KaiOS

#33

Post by colejohnson66 »

bArray wrote: post #22

Can we just build phones with a basic x86/AMD64 architecture and a small BIOS so we can load any OS onto them easily from a micro SD? I recently tried to get Halium boot running for my mobile, it's nigh on impossible if it's more than a few years old. (This was in an attempt to load Ubuntu OS onto it.) Why does it have to be this difficult to try a different OS, when loading an OS onto a new laptop is so relatively e…

Wasn’t that kind of what Windows Phone was? An x86 based phone?

Re: KaiOS

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Post by inawarminister »

bArray wrote: post #22

Can we just build phones with a basic x86/AMD64 architecture and a small BIOS so we can load any OS onto them easily from a micro SD? I recently tried to get Halium boot running for my mobile, it's nigh on impossible if it's more than a few years old. (This was in an attempt to load Ubuntu OS onto it.) Why does it have to be this difficult to try a different OS, when loading an OS onto a new laptop is so relatively e…

AFAIK PinePhone first edition will run like this. A MVP OS in NAND and in-development Linux Mobile distros (UBPorts, Plasma Mobile, KaiOS et al) running directly from MicroSD

Re: KaiOS

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Post by Yoric »

5trokerac3 wrote: post #8

> As of February 2018, KaiOS Technologies has partnered with Airfind, Facebook, Google, Twitter... The Nokia KaiOS devices come with built in Google services, which instantly disqualify them for me. I don't trust that information from those phones aren't being seeded to Google.

What Google services are you talking about exactly? Recall that KaiOS doesn't run Android, so just becomes it comes bundled with Google Maps & co doesn't mean that Google receives any kind of data if you don't use the apps.

Re: KaiOS

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Post by tjoff »

colejohnson66 wrote: post #33
bArray wrote: post #22

Can we just build phones with a basic x86/AMD64 architecture and a small BIOS so we can load any OS onto them easily from a micro SD? I recently tried to get Halium boot running for my mobile, it's nigh on impossible if it's more than a few years old. (This was in an attempt to load Ubuntu OS onto it.) Why does it have to be this difficult to try a different OS, when loading an OS onto a new laptop is so relatively e…

Wasn’t that kind of what Windows Phone was? An x86 based phone?

No, they used arm.

Also, there are x86 android devices but I wouldn't expect them to be any more friendly than arm-devices.

Re: KaiOS

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Post by cferr »

I have an Alcatel GO Flip stuck on KaiOS 1.0. It's terrible. I have to reboot the phone at least once a day or it slows down to the point where the UI doesn't respond to certain events, such as initiating a call.

The UI and functionality would be nice if not for the bugs. Maybe they have fixed a bunch of them in later releases, but my provider isn't providing updates.

Re: KaiOS

#38

Post by m-p-3 »

It feels wierd to see that Google Assistant app on it, knowing it runs a fork of Firefox OS.

Re: KaiOS

#39

Post by justicezyx »

Abishek_Muthian wrote: post #29

It's remarkable what KaiOS has achieved when the behemoths like Microsoft, Blackberry who tried to become the 3rd player in the smartphone OS wars failed. KaiOS is now holds the 2nd position in India. Cyanogenmod had a slim chance to pull off what KaiOS did, as it took a similar first approach but failed miserably with its exclusivity agreement with two companies (OnePlus & Micromax)! But the growth of KaiOS came fro…

You miss the point, Kaios would be killed in any situation if it were part of Microsoft or Blackberry or Google. Their appetite has no minor project like this...

Re: KaiOS

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Post by bArray »

tjoff wrote: post #36
colejohnson66 wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wasn’t that kind of what Windows Phone was? An x86 based phone?

No, they used arm. Also, there are x86 android devices but I wouldn't expect them to be any more friendly than arm-devices.

> Also, there are x86 android devices but I wouldn't expect them to be any more friendly than arm-devices.

Yeah, without some kind of boot code (i.e. BIOS or UEFI) to help get the ball rolling, you essentially have the same problem.

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