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Jolla announces "the other half" extensible backcovers as strech-goal to phone pre-order campain (forum.sailfishos.org)

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The Other Half (TOH) is a swappable back cover that does more than protect your phone — it transforms it. The original Jolla Phone (2013) pioneered this with open I2C interface and NFC-enabled covers that changed themes and behaviour just by snapping on

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With the new Jolla Phone, we’re taking TOH even further — and we’ll open source the hardware and software interface specs so anyone can design, 3D-print, or produce their own modules. Primarily we plan that the new The Other Half interface would be based on I³C.

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[–] erebion@news.erebion.eu 5 points 3 days ago

The OS itself is kinda nice, but having their own app format surely does not help.

They've waiting too long with open sourcing some components and have only just started open sourcing a bit more, I believe they're currently open sourcing the gallery app.

I test it occasionally, but there isn't even an XMPP client that supports OMEMO (although XMPP is built into the system), no KeePass compatible app, no Syncthing, no public transport app I could use for Germany, ...

I could use it with the Android app support, but that's proprietary and the goal would be to use Linux instead of Android, not an Android container on a Linux running on an old Android kernel.

On other distros, I can just use regular packages or Flatpak (for example pretty much everything from the GNOME project works on phones these days) and don't miss anything really.