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Jolla Phone (October 2026)

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Re: Jolla Phone (October 2026)

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Post by Muromec »

ndiddy wrote: post #72
dengolius wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I read somewhere that the owners have ties to russia, but the most important thing is that they’re marketing very aggressively through posts that slander GraphenOS.

IIRC the company tried to become a major mobile operating system in the BRICS countries, which led to Rostelecom, the Russian state telecom operator, purchasing a majority state in the company in the mid-2010s. After Russia invaded Ukraine, the company's management started a new company and moved all their employees and IP over to it to escape the Russian ownership.

Oh, thanks for sharing. everything russia related is a hard pass until they repent

Re: Jolla Phone (October 2026)

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Post by blu3h4t »

I bought and used sailfish on a Sony phone (also had a second one), with my work issued SIM card for mainly calling as a test, it also had a few popular messaging apps like WhatsApp and whatnot, maybe for 5 years, but got tired of the interface and apps mediocrity. On a personal phone after several years and several mediocre android phones that had to be switched way too often for my tastes I switched to an iPhone. And as I expected cause had a Mac 20 years ago, despite using Linux for all these years, God what a pleasure to use an iPhone. But anyway got tired of that sailfish phone and replaced it with an older pixel + graphene, not as huge as iPhone but still much better than the sailfish os, in both app support and interface. If you ask me this are the only tho decent phones now an iPhone or graphene. That Sony is running murena now I think cause it’s on the table getting an update once in a while.

Re: Jolla Phone (October 2026)

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Post by Muromec »

dijit wrote: post #31
dengolius wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I read somewhere that the owners have ties to russia, but the most important thing is that they’re marketing very aggressively through posts that slander GraphenOS.

Jesus christ, what is this FUD? I know the people behind SailfishOS, they’re not like, friends or anything: just ex-Nokia developers who got fucked by Microsoft (like I did, btw, which is how I know of them). I feel like the big tech smartphone duopoly would have a reason to spread such rubbish, but its so patently obvious that I doubt they are so stupid.

The word to describe this is /законтачений/ . Some people are to be avoided even if they maintain the outward appearance of normalcy and not even realize themselves what the problem even is. Trust bit permanently burned, nothing to see here.

Re: Jolla Phone (October 2026)

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Post by Muromec »

microtonal wrote: post #71
g-b-r wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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No, Jolla. They worked with the Russian government. But they cut ties even before the 2022 invasion: https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/plea-for-official-statement-f...

Cutting ties is a matter of protecting ones investment, while working with certain parties is a moral choice.

Re: Jolla Phone (October 2026)

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Post by fsflover »

RomanPushkin wrote: post #85

750 USD? I like the idea. And appreciate all the people who support such products, so phones are getting cheaper. But no way I'm getting it for over $150. It looks really cheap, and the marketing is bad, honestly. I think these corporations have spoiled me, and I was really looking for huuuuge wow effect for $750, but it's just a Linux phone.

> But no way I'm getting it for over $150.

So Pinephone seems to be what you're searching for.

Re: Jolla Phone (October 2026)

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Post by Muromec »

iamnothere wrote: post #123
microtonal wrote: post #71

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No, Jolla. They worked with the Russian government. But they cut ties even before the 2022 invasion: https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/plea-for-official-statement-f...

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You are trying to be funny, while russian drones fly above my mom's house, so it isn't as good of an answer to give as you may image

Re: Jolla Phone (October 2026)

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Post by iamnothere »

Muromec wrote: post #137
iamnothere wrote: post #123

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You are trying to be funny, while russian drones fly above my mom's house, so it isn't as good of an answer to give as you may image

I get frustrated when people draw imaginary Russian connections into projects/products that I like. It often happens with anything “hackerish” or non-mainstream (particularly privacy adjacent things) and has become quite annoying.

Re: Jolla Phone (October 2026)

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Post by [deleted] »

pimterry wrote: post #35
bilekas wrote: post #22

I like the idea of these new phones that might be a bit more privacy centered, and even with some different OSes but I think the biggest problem for a lot of adoption is the compatibility with things like banking apps, 2fa etc. It makes it quite an impossible daily driver thanks to some strange rules.

There's a compatibility list at https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compa... . I think the challenges here exist but the reality is overblown to be honest, the vast majority of banking apps (everything that isn't struck through in that list) work just fine. Fully agree the concern is discouraging adoption though. I would love to see more of a solution here, it seems like purely anti-competitive beh…

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