[SailfishDevel] Porting SailfishOS to new mobile phone

[Roman Meier]

Hi folks,

I’m not sure if this is the right forum for this question. Please, let me
try anyway!

I read quite a lot about SailfishOS in the past weeks and it’s a very cool
project. That’s why I have ordered for a Sony Xperia X and hopefully I’ll
be able to move from theory to practice very soon.

I recently came across a new brand of mobile phones, which is TECNO
produced in China and sold mostly in West-Africa. Some of these phones
have rather impressive specs. The quality seems to be quite right as well.

I would like to find out, what it takes to make SailfishOS run on these
phones.

Fact is that CM/LineageOS/libhybris do not support them. In addition, it
may be difficult to get the attention of the producers, who are focused on
Android only.

Does this mean that there is no way SailfishOS can be brought to theses
phones? What would be the best approach to get this done?

I believe there is so much expertise in the community with people like
vgrade, sledges, stskeeps, lbt, etc.

Is there a way or is this just wishful thinking?

Kind regards,
Roman