[SailfishDevel] Neo900 support

Thu Apr 9 08:27:50 UTC 2015

I'm aware of this product, but I don't like how it is done.
The main issue of this keyboard is that it masks the camera. So I can't
take quickly a picture, I have to remove in first the keyboard. With this
TOHKBD, we can't have an other one : it's either a keyboard or something
else. So this smartphone is just like all the others with a physical
keyboard, but less interesting because of the camera issue. And finally,
I'm not convinced by the magnets. I rather prefer a true slider keyboard.

The main interest of this design could have been the possibility to slide
out only the directional pad with the smartphone in portrait mode, for
allowing users to control there smartphone with it (in case they have
gloves for example).

So for the moment, for me, the Jolla phone with TOHKBD is not interesting.

> The TOHKBD promises to be a very good add-on, though I don't know if it
> will be available to people who didn't pre-order...
>
> (But right now you can still pre-order here:
> http://funkyotherhalf.com/?page_id=9#!/TOHKBD2-PRE-ORDER/p/42141285/category=9141090
> )
>
> Regards,
> Eli
>
> 2015-04-09 1:27 GMT+03:00 Schifano Alexandre <schifano at polytech.unice.fr>:
>
>> It depends of what you mean by "good", and what do you expect as
>> physical keyboard. You can find two or three year-old smartphones which
>> are fine, with physical keyboard, but no ubber processors and no 4G.
>> You can also find on the Chinese market smartphones like the Samsung
>> Galaxy Golden.
>> But of course the best smartphone with a physical keyboard will be the
>> one which Jolla will make ;) (if Jolla will do it one day ...)
>>
>> On 08/04/2015 23:41, Brenda Fernández wrote:
>> > Are there still good Android phones with physical keyboards? ;)
>> >
>> > On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 1:59 PM, Schifano Alexandre
>> > <schifano at polytech.unice.fr <mailto:schifano at polytech.unice.fr>>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >     Oh, I assumed you install Android app in a chrooted Android
>> environment
>> >     which implies an Android kernel.
>> >     I confess than I'm a bit disapointed to discover this, because I
>> wanted
>> >     to install Sailfish either on the Neo900 or on a good Android
>> phone
>> with
>> >     a physical keyboard for having an interresting OS/device with the
>> >     possibility to install Android apps when there is not equivalent.
>> >
>> >     Thank you, now I have a better understanding of how it works.
>> >
>> >     On 06/04/2015 14:54, Andrey Kozhevnikov wrote:
>> >     > Sailfish is Jolla UI over Mer with Wayland Lipstick windows
>> >     manager. It
>> >     > runs on normal Linux kernel. Android adaptations using
>> libhybris.
>> >     > If you can run Nemo on your device you can just add/replace
>> Jolla
>> >     > repositories and "install" sailfish on it.
>> >     > You will not have possibility to install android apps until
>> >     someone will
>> >     > create open android launcher or Jolla start licensing
>> aliendalvik
>> for
>> >     > non-Jolla devices.
>> >     >
>> >     > 06.04.2015 17:48, Schifano Alexandre пишет:
>> >     >> Hi,
>> >     >>
>> >     >> Still about a Neo900 support, I have an other question :
>> >     >>
>> >     >> As far as I understand, basically Sailfish is Mer (Wayland
>> >     version) with
>> >     >> the Jolla UI, and with an Android kernel and libhybris. So if I
>> >     am able
>> >     >> to have Nemo running rightly on a N(eo)900 with Wayland, I will
>> >     be able
>> >     >> to run Sailfish apps ? And if I am able to do it with an
>> Android
>> >     kernel
>> >     >> and libhybris, I will be able to have it working with the
>> >     possibility to
>> >     >> install Android apps ?
>> >     >>
>> >     >> Best regards
>> >     >>
>> >     >> On 05/04/2015 08:12, Schifano Alexandre wrote:
>> >     >>> Hi,
>> >     >>>
>> >     >>> I'm very interrested by Sailfish OS, however I'm also very
>> >     interrested
>> >     >>> by the Neo900. This smartphone is a modified Nokia N900, with
>> a
>> TI
>> >     >>> DM3730 1 GHz processor (Cortex-A8 with ARMv7-A instructions,
>> >     mono-core)
>> >     >>> and 1GB of RAM (more here : http://neo900.org/specs). Do you
>> think
>> >     >>> Sailfish will be able to run smoothly on it ? Will you support
>> the
>> >     >>> Neo900 and allowing users to install your OS on it ?
>> >     >>>
>> >     >>> Best regards,
>> >     >>> Alexandre Schifano
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