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#2Perhaps I'm not in the know (I'm not) but it took me way too long to figure out it was a phone and not some UI overlay/Android enhancement suite.
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#3So this is an Android fork with UI improvements?
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#4My opinion is: "wat"
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#5Hint: most global mega corps block youtube. Host videos locally for product demos if you can pay for the bandwidth. You will reach a bigger audience.
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#6I was wondering why a condom site was on HN, then I entered and saw it was the mobile phone one...
Too bad for them their name (at least in Brazil) still sounds like a condom name though. (the most popular condom in Brazil is named "Olla")
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> The original Finnish design, with no front-facing buttons, stands out from the pack.
Only me find this... ironic? I mean, almost all smarphones now come without front-facing buttons (a design I hate by the way, specially when your hands are wet or oiled for whatever reason, or when you sneeze in the screen and it go ballistic).
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#7So this is an Android fork with UI improvements?
Looks like it isn't a direct Android fork but does use the Android app runtime.
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#8So this is an Android fork with UI improvements?
No, this is the current state of Nokia’s Meego OS.
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#9>Jolla brings you the best of both worlds – super intuitive Sailfish OS apps and the latest Android™ apps.
The recent article on OS/2 [1] makes me wonder whether such compatibility (which, as I understand, is full and not selective) is actually good for them. Either way, tough, I wish Jolla success; I'd like to see Sailfish OS [2] on an actual device.
[1] See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6792010. The short of it is that the Ars Technica article claims OS/2's compatibility with Windows made developers less inclined to write native applications for OS/2. Some discussion on whether that was the case can be found in the comments to this response to the article: http://www.os2museum.com/wp/?p=2144.
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#10So this is an Android fork with UI improvements?
Jolla is based on what was left of Nokia's Maemo/Meego.