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Finnish company Jolla started out 14 years ago where Nokia left off with MeeGo and developed Sailfish OS as a new Linux smartphone platform. Jolla released their first smartphone in 2013 after crowdfunding but ultimately the Sailfish OS focus the past number of years now has been offering their software stack for use on other smartphone devices. But now it seems they are trying again with a new crowd-funded smartphone.

Sailfish OS has supported a number of Sony Xperia smartphones and a variety of OnePlus / Samsung / Google / Xiaomi devices and more maintained by the community. Last year Jolla also announced an "AI computer" as part of the AI hardware craze. Now though they are apparently trying again at their own in-house smartphone.

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[–] kepix@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago (4 children)

if you arent trying to develope for existing phones, you are part of the problem

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago

Until we have affordable fully open phone hardware specifications, the current phone hardware oligopolies will continue to gate keep with brittle proprietary drivers to ensure that people stay inside their walled surveillance garden.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

There's a reason even GrapheneOS is looking to build their own phones. You pretty much need a published device tree and that's becoming rarer than hen's teeth in current phones. Even Pixel's are starting to get locked down.

Very very few existing phones allow bootloader unlocking and using your own keys, its why GrapheneOS only works on Google Pixel devices.

I imagine at some point even Pixels will stop allowing that.

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

That's hard to do given the driver issues, how locked down phones are, and the fact you're completely reliant on the benevolence of another faceless multi-billion (or trillion) dollar company.