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Jolla Phone (October 2026)

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Re: Jolla Phone (October 2026)

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Post by fsflover »

porphyra wrote: post #148
fsflover wrote: post #136

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> But no way I'm getting it for over $150. So Pinephone seems to be what you're searching for.

The Pinephone comes with ridiculously weak compute. The Jolla Phone has a Mediatek Dimensity 7100 comparable to $300 phones like the Honor 600 Lite [1]. Of course, with the $750 price tag you're getting an unlocked bootloader/Linux support and the labor of Finnish people. [1] https://www.gsmarena.com/honor_600_lite_debuts_with_dimensit...

The parent gave the price tag, and I replied with the corresponding device. With good software, Pinephone can smoothly play videos, show map directions and browse the web with NoScript, https://sxmo.org/

Re: Jolla Phone (October 2026)

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Post by DANmode »

ThatMedicIsASpy wrote: post #170
DANmode wrote: post #169

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Stops officially supporting - often still gets patches. 6a is a 2022 phone, 7a is $150 on Swappa. Where are we going with this?

No idea you guys make up prices and devices when I made my choices years ago? All I can give you is my reasoning for picking it. Not giving google my money is always a plus in my book.

I had no way to know it was years ago,

and I don’t consider buying used and flashing “giving Google my money”.

Although it definitely enables the market for Pixels, they definitely don’t make much (if any) money selling Pixels, due to they’re being cheap-yet-flagship devices.

It might even hurt Google for you to buy them and not capture all your data with their OS!

Re: Jolla Phone (October 2026)

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Post by xandrius »

tombert wrote: post #99
xandrius wrote: post #9

I hope Ubuntu Touch has native support for this, as it's a great OS with massive potential and active community.

I really wanted the official Ubuntu phone to catch on. I gave to the IndieGoGo for it but sadly it wasn't funded, so I installed Ubuntu mobile on a different old phone (a OnePlus One I think?) like a decade ago. I thought it was very cool. It felt a lot more like a "computer that I could use as a smartphone" than a "smartphone with some computer stuff". I thought the interface was clean and nice and it was fun to hac…

Yeah, I did the same. Now you can even run android apk's on the system, which makes it easier to switch.

Re: Jolla Phone (October 2026)

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Post by WickyNilliams »

microtonal wrote: post #69
ThatMedicIsASpy wrote: post #48

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My xperia 10 iii was 280€(+50€ OS) vs 500€++ for a pixel. But I hate phones. All I want is navigation, sms/call, signal, steam and firefox.

Ehm, a Pixel 9a is currently 349 Euro here (10a 399 Euro). Given that the OS is free, that's only a 19 Euro difference. For a much better camera, much better SoC, much better pretty much everything. Of course, if your goal is to run SailfishOS, there is currently not much of another option.

My partner just got a 10a brand new, no contract for £250! Extremely good value.

Re: Jolla Phone (October 2026)

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Post by WickyNilliams »

drnick1 wrote: post #88
ThatMedicIsASpy wrote: post #48

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My xperia 10 iii was 280€(+50€ OS) vs 500€++ for a pixel. But I hate phones. All I want is navigation, sms/call, signal, steam and firefox.

The Pixel 10a is on sale for $399 on Amazon right now, and it's a far better device, and it can run GrapheneOS.

You can find it cheaper if you keep an eye out. My partner just got one for £250 unlocked, no contract

Re: Jolla Phone (October 2026)

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Post by port11 »

Retr0id wrote: post #23
Tiberium wrote: post #14

Wanted to mention that Sailfish has a lot of closed-source components, especially UI-related, despite the overall marketing/"vibe" making it look very open. If anything, AOSP (Android) is more open than Sailfish. I don't think this has changed with Sailfish 5, see e.g.: - https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/sailfish-os-clarifying-claims... - https://docs.sailfishos.org/Develop/Open_Source/

Huh. I really don't see the point of this, vs something like GrapheneOS. Edit: I'm well aware of the differences between typical Linux and Android (especially the security architecture!), and I'm willing to make some sacrifices in the name of FOSS... but only if it's actually FOSS.

Maybe the point is to have more than 2 players in the mobile OS arena, especially if the American duopoly continues to force everyone’s hand.

Re: Jolla Phone (October 2026)

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Post by port11 »

CiTyBear wrote: post #36

Personal experience with Jolla: I bought their first mobile (still have it somewhere) that would be a "Linux Phone that run android app". Wanted to support it and was ready to expect some bugs but it did not work all. No support at all, most of android app did not work. The OS was not finished that it was already obsolete. And now there are doing it again like the first one never existed. I have zero trust in this co…

I don’t think they have the trust and platform stability to back up that price tag. But it’s always good to have more competition, so let’s see.

Re: Jolla Phone (October 2026)

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Post by Andromxda »

ginko wrote: post #151
tormeh wrote: post #122

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If it has the "security" architecture of Linux (it's really more of a multi-tenant architecture) then that's a complete deal breaker. Wouldn't want it if it was 1000x faster/betterer than Android. Our desktop OSes are just incompatible with running untrusted software, and you're gonna want to do that.

>Our desktop OSes are just incompatible with running untrusted software, and you're gonna want to do that. So you're saying people should only use walled garden closed source OSes? Sounds like tyranny to me.

1) No one is saying that. As another commenter mentioned, Android is open source.

2) The point still stands, desktop operating systems like Windows and desktop Linux distributions are much less secure than Android or iOS. Read https://privsec.dev/posts/linux/linux-insecurities/

Re: Jolla Phone (October 2026)

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Post by Andromxda »

g-b-r wrote: post #60
dengolius wrote: post #27

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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.

[flagged]

Straight up conspiracy theories you're spreading here. Daniel Micay is Canadian, Dmytro Mukhomor is Ukrainian (he was literally conscripted into the Ukrainian army last year), and Khalykbek Yelshibekov is from Kazakhstan.

> Micay is somewhat Russian-sounding too

Sorry what?

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