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Jolla Trying Again To Develop A New Sailfish OS Linux Smartphone (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 1 week ago by cm0002@toast.ooo to c/linux@programming.dev

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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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[–] GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Kinda off topic, but now I'm wondering whether Europeans think of phone size (and laptops and screens) in terms of inches rather than centimeters?

[–] ArkimedesWasRight@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

We do indeed think, and market devices using inch for screen size. Simply because it always been that way. People are used to it. Now, how many actually know that spec refers to the diagonal...

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

We do. Same thing for monitor and TV sizes.

[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 week ago

I'm wondering whether ~~Europeans~~ the other 96% of humanity

There, FTFY.

And yes, the other 96% of humanity would very much like to see Imperial measurements die.

Hell, as a Canadian born after 1970, I wouldn’t understand almost all Imperial measurements even if they smacked me clear in the forehead. About the most I have ever used are inches, feet, and pounds, and only because they’ve hung on in tightly-linked-to-America blue-collar industries and (until about a decade ago) grocery stores. I would have zero clue how much a cup or a Florida Ounce is.