Jolla smartphone unveiled, based on MeeGo OS, supports Android apps

Android apps would work best on an Android phone.

Good luck, Jolla, maybe Nokia can hire you to do the software for developing markets.
 
I think Sailfish's advantage will be it's compatibility to Android, that immediately puts it a few steps up the ladder from Windows and Blackberry.
 
alloytoo said:
I think Sailfish's advantage will be it's compatibility to Android, that immediately puts it a few steps up the ladder from Windows and Blackberry.
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That's like saying VW's biggest advantage is that it uses BMW parts.
 
ToxicBunny said:
Physically it looks a like a cheap knock-off of the Lumia.
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It looks like Jolla is trying to appease Nokia/Android fans.

Nokia is not going to do Android so fans of Nokia and Android currently have nothing on offer for them - THIS IS IT! Perhaps this is why Nokia is not doing Android - it is part of their plan (albeit indirectly).

The phone comes with a 4.5-inch display and 8-megapixel camera. It will also be 4G-capable, depending on market.
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Sounds like a Lumia 920. The express cover idea is definitely Nokia (e.g. the 820 currently). But, can you blame them.
 
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McCrazieGoalz said:
Sounds like a Lumia 920. The express cover idea is definitely Nokia (e.g. the 820 currently). But, can you blame them.
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It's not the same. In this phone the back cover actually contains hardware, it's not simply a colour change.
But the feature goes further than interchangeable shells — which is not at all new, dating back in spirit to early Nokia mobile phones of the 1990s with their removable facias, and more recently to a device like Nokia’s Lumia 820, which has a coloured and swappable backplate.

Jolla’s Other Half isn’t just decoration but links to the software on the handset — using an unconfirmed bridging technology that sounds to my ear like NFC — allowing content on the phone to be tied to the addition of a new shell, or even for new physical features to be incorporated and supported.

Jolla’s Marc Dillon, now head of software but until recently CEO, gave some examples of how the Other Half feature could be used — noting that this is about opening up the back of the device for others to come in and augment.

Jolla“You have the processor side of the device, the power side, the engine, and then the Other Half is about adding to that. This is a new kind of media where it could be anything from your favourite artist could release their latest album on the other half of the Jolla device, and then when the user buys this they have a physical thing from their favourite artist then when they snap it on to the other half of their Jolla device, then everyone can see it, that they support and love their artist and then on the inside they could get the content. They could get maybe special content, that could only be released in this format like videos or links to websites or tickets or special offers, things like that but because of this interface between the two halves,” he told TechCrunch.

“It can not only be media, it can be very simple things — so maybe you have a colour palette, so when you go out of an evening you might have a different colour depending on your outfit and that colour then carries through to the software updating the Ambience of the device. So you might have — if you have a green dress, you might have a green device and then you have green icons and green Ambience [Sailfish UI theme] on your phone. But it can also be more interesting — you can add features. Like the camera is a good example, the native camera of course has a flash but maybe you’re going to a party and you want to have a big flash so you can take pictures in the dark at a nightclub. So really the imagination is the only limit here.”

“Instead of having a device with some bulky things attached to it or some things sticking out the side of it to extend the capabilities of the device, or to add content, we’re giving a new way for users to actually design and co-create with us new ways of using the device,” Dillon added.
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http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/20/jollas-other-half/
 
kingrob said:
Android apps would work best on an Android phone.
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Source? They seem to run pretty well on BlueStacks, although they should run equally well on any Dalvik Virtual Machine (including the one in your Android device :p).
alloytoo said:
I think Sailfish's advantage will be it's compatibility to Android, that immediately puts it a few steps up the ladder from Windows and Blackberry.
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Launching with access to Android's apps should certainly give Jolla an advantage over other platforms having to start from scratch.
Similar to how the Z-80 SoftCard and access to all of the CP/M applications gave the Apple II an advantage in the 1980s.
McCrazieGoalz said:
Nokia is not going to do Android so fans of Nokia and Android currently have nothing on offer for them - THIS IS IT! Perhaps this is why Nokia is not doing Android - it is part of their plan (albeit indirectly).
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Maybe Nokia have shares in Jolla. :) It wouldn't be the first time a company created their own competitor.
 
kingrob said:
Dude, are you on some cheap drugs?
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I'm not the one who confuses YouTube with reality. ;)

What you wrote is equivalent to saying "Java apps would work best on a SUN Workstation".
Whereas they'll run just as well on Windows, Mac OS X, Ubuntu, etc.
 
ginggs said:
I'm not the one who confuses YouTube with reality. ;)

What you wrote is equivalent to saying "Java apps would work best on a SUN Workstation".
Whereas they'll run just as well on Windows, Mac OS X, Ubuntu, etc.
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Definitely not the same thing, you are definitely confused.

In order for java apps to run on another OS, you must first install the correct java libraries + version numbers before you'll get any joy, if any. The platform brings its own challenges.

*Shame, it was you who got the Nokio N9 and still hoping that jolla will bring you some apps?
 
kingrob said:
In order for java apps to run on another OS, you must first install the correct java libraries + version numbers before you'll get any joy, if any. The platform brings its own challenges.
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In order to run Java apps on any OS, you need a Java VM. What makes you think this is so different to running Dalvik apps in a Dalvik VM?
 
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ginggs said:
In order to run Java apps on any OS, you need a Java VM. What makes you think this is so different to running Dalvik apps in a Dalvik VM?
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The Dalvik VM is a huge part of Android & thus tightly integrated inside the OS.

I'm sure Google wouldn't be happy if it ran better on an iOS device, therefor I said it should work best on an Android phone.
 
kingrob said:
I'm sure Google wouldn't be happy if it ran better on an iOS device, therefor I said it should work best on an Android phone.
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You actually wrote 'would', not 'should'. I'm sure Google wouldn't be happy, but what could they do about it? Dalvik is open source.
 
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