161–170 of 230 posts
Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are phones that can run "true Linux" out there, and there even are ports of Sailfish OS for some of them, but Jolla phones were never part of those and rely on Android drivers instead.
Pinephone/pro What else use main line kernel without blob ?
I'm deeply saddened that they didn't add a 3.5mm audio/headphone jack. There was a community poll and I believe a headphone jack was the second-most requested feature after a MicroSD slot. I appreciate they have to draw a line under the feature set somewhere, however the cost of an audio jack is literal pennies and I'm quite sure the PCB designers could have squeezed it in somewhere. As someone who has no interest in…
Seems like a very poor choice to build in a headphone jack. Why not just use usb c to headphone adapter?
as for using an adapter, it's one extra thing to carry and also difficult to charge with simultaneously
I hate the camera bump trend. I don’t need a super fancy camera, just give me something half decent and flush with the device. The original iPhone SE was the last time I enjoyed a phone’s design.
I do sometimes use the video for remote meetings but I don't care about picture quality for those.
Nokia N900 was really great, Jolla has some of the former team people. I only jumped into Android after my Symbian phone died, and by then Symbian Belle, with QT and PIPS (PIPS Is POSIX on Symbian OS), it was already shapping great. That Burning Memo was really a downer.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are phones that can run "true Linux" out there, and there even are ports of Sailfish OS for some of them, but Jolla phones were never part of those and rely on Android drivers instead.
Pinephone/pro What else use main line kernel without blob ?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
It could do both, but it does say “or whatever”, not “and”.
How would you have a user-configurable switch that physically disconnects things? The mechanism for that sounds complex. I'm not a hardware person, but I imagine you'd need to route the traces for each possible component to the switch and then have like a dip switch panel to control which behaviors are controlled by the switch. Either that or a software-controlled equivalent to a dip switch panel that can only be con…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are phones that can run "true Linux" out there, and there even are ports of Sailfish OS for some of them, but Jolla phones were never part of those and rely on Android drivers instead.
Seems that Jolla C2 can run "close-to" mainline kernel: https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/mainline-linux-kernel-for-the...
Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's both; the one I mentioned is for system drivers, the one you're talking about is for running applications (which you can also do on a regular non-Halium GNU/Linux using e.g. Waydroid).
I'm sure that if you tell Jolla about a relatively modern mobile SOC with mainline linux support, they'll look into it instead of relying on libhybris.
I'm deeply saddened that they didn't add a 3.5mm audio/headphone jack. There was a community poll and I believe a headphone jack was the second-most requested feature after a MicroSD slot. I appreciate they have to draw a line under the feature set somewhere, however the cost of an audio jack is literal pennies and I'm quite sure the PCB designers could have squeezed it in somewhere. As someone who has no interest in…
Seems like a very poor choice to build in a headphone jack. Why not just use usb c to headphone adapter?