[SailfishDevel] Neo900 support

David Greaves david.greaves at jolla.com
Thu Apr 9 09:27:29 UTC 2015


Or you could buy, you know, a Jolla phone *today* and

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2028347278/tohkbd-the-other-half-keyboard-for-your-jolla

because there's no point in Jolla being as open as possible and then users not 
supporting the community that develops awesome things like that ^^^

David


On 08/04/15 23:27, Schifano Alexandre wrote:
> 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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