Intex Aqua Ace
Launched 10 days ago. IMO this will be the Sailfish phone. If not, it should be.
http://intex.in/aqua-ace/index.html Specs, looks and price ought to be able to sell a few units in India. Launch frame squares with the expected October launch of their Sailfish phone ... I doubt Jolla will be able to meet that time frame though, especially as this (or alternative) will likely be the first MTK adaption. |
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EDIT: Sorry, I missed that you already mentioned the Ace is using a Mediatek processor. But still, I'd be surprised Intex would choose hardware that Jolla hadn't targeted for their first Sailfish phone. |
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That MediaTek hardware barely beats the Snapdragon 400 series; definitely middle of the road where 6xx and 8xx series are heavier hitters.
In this day and age of "specs mean far too much", that's something to consider. Thanks for linking this though... who knows, it does share a lot with the incoming Intex Jolla phone though. Looks good. |
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Qualcomm would be absolutely stupid. More expensive SoCs and platform. Considerably lower performance and features at any given pricepoint. In India, features and performance within very restrictive price constraints are paramount. Intex, for the former reasons are an almost exclusively MTK shop. If the Sailfish phone doesn't share EVERYTHING with an Android sister-phone, again cost is increased and chances of success are lowered, especially as there'll be no chance of people who bought an Android phone trying SF. Edit: Intex may no longer have ANY Qualcomm phones. Opened the product pages for the first ~25 smartphones that they currently do. All but 2 were Mediatek. The remaining 2 were Spredtrum. No Qualcomm. |
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my main interest in intex are, will it support the other half?
and will it use same battery as jolla phone does? |
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Not sure if it will be available outside of India, but if it will be MTK based than I don't even care. And, BTW, they have nicer phones than this iphone wannabe. Something more squareish like original Jolla. |
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The 61x series have problems too, and using 61x would make the Sailfish phone by far Intex's most expensive (and likely lowest margin) phone. Why on earth would they do that? Also, given the minimum order numbers from their Chinese or Taiwanese OEM, why the hell would they risk it when there won't be an Android analogue? 8xx isn't even a consideration, and again you could get something just as fast or faster for half the price from MTK. Why do you think they've gone from a minority Qualcomm shop (10-15% of their phones) to seemingly none? Ubuntu Touch phones don't seem to have an issue working with MTK, and the full source for those phones are available (unlike 'open' Jolla) ... and available online - again unlike Jolla. If Jolla are adapting MTK hardware, they'd be wise to inspect what Canonical / bQ / Meizu have done. Quote:
Also, the battery's shite and low capacity, and outside of Dirk there's been practically no support for ToH. Furthermore, why on earth would they support either? There've been very low sales of the Jolla Phone, and there are very few active users ... why do something costly and risky to at best please a hard core of a couple of hundred people who demand ToH (and battery? really?) compatibility? |
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P.S. I was wrong. They were still saying as of September the 28th that October was launch month. I'm guessing there will be total silence now until whenever it does actually launch, if it does.
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and that aqua ace is roughly around 180€.
For sailfish device with snapdragon 600 they said it would cost around 15K rupee and that is some 25€ more. Of course, this is unofficial since the phone isn't out yet (if that even happens) but IMO not that much more. Sure, from android benchmarking data MTK is better but sailfish is not android and benchmarks does not tell everything. I would gladly pay 25€ more for qualcomm. |
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Intex may release the sailfish phone in the last week of october or 1st week of november because of Diwali.
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I haven't seen this before http://intex.in/intex-sailfish-os/
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The page was there, but not as big as now :)
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for me it seems the same
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So.. It is november.
Did anybody ask them on twitter? |
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i asked ths morning
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So is it November now or Q1 2016????
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:) I still favor the official press release, which indicates the end of the year as the likely earliest time for a release... |
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http://www.slideshare.net/kritikapur...ystem-53836046
See slide 40. It says sailfish OS 2.0 will be released in November with Aqua Fish phone. 2.0 was released, but no intex phone. I have a bad feeling... |
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Two pieces of information that might clear things up:
An Indian article from July claiming November 2015 release date. - I personally missed this before and heard only about the October target. Recent tweet response from Intex. Also taking into account that Jolla announced the release of the special Sailfish India flavor of their operating system for Q1 2016 just two weeks ago, it wouldn't be too surprising if Intex waited to launch this system on their phones on day one. |
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Could somebody ask them on twitter on current status?
To wait or not to wait. |
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I really wouldn't expect a response until we see how Jolla's debt restructuring goes and we can see if Jolla will be able to support/update Sailfish.
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http://reviewjolla.blogspot.com.au/2...-at-jolla.html
Simo seems to think that the Intex project is still going ahead, whether this is based on fact or speculation I'm not sure. |
http://suomimobiili.fi/ensimmainen-i...tyssa-kuvassa/
They have found first official looking picture of intex aquafish! http://uploads.suomimobiili.fi/2016/...x-1024x916.png Edit: as they say in finnish, they can't be sure if it is real. |
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I think not......
look at this http://uploads.suomimobiili.fi/2015/...5-1024x576.png and this is more than 5 months old. And they both look almost exactly like original Jolla one. |
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HAHA...Is the name Aqua...Fish?
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http://www.intex.in/mobiles/smart-ph...pecs=3893#scrl So yeah, an Intex Sailfish phone would most logically be a member of the Aqua lineup. |
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we have a new contender to be the second official sailfish os phone :D
This picture was changed on the intex website! http://mosushi.net/misc/intexaquafish.png |
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No android tiles on that screen. No Alien Dalvik?
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Edit: found better image without the bars: b3-phone.png http://intex.in/intex-sailfish-os/images/b3-phone.png And look at intex current "Flagship" that has quite the same body :D 2GB and Quadcore and 4000mah battery for NPR 17999.00 (164€) pleeeease! Edit2: I missed Simos ReviewJolla Post! He made a nice wrapup even on 08.01. and speculates on 3GB! |
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The memory even 2GB would be a huge help over the Jolla phone especially if one wants to run dalvik. I am interested in what frequencies the modem supports which is very important for knowing where we can reasonably use the phone if we buy it via ebay or some such.
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If you sharpened the corners just a little bit more you could use the phone as a boxcutter :D
http://intex.in/intex-sailfish-os/images/b4-img1.png Hope this thing has enough grunt to handle big emails. What is the current email application in Sailfish ? If it is Gmail then maybe I ought to be looking somewhere else |
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The email application is a bit basic but works well for me. |
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along with all the administrative overhead. I usually use claws which purrs through everything and configures to do exactly what I want and nothing less. Unlike Ubuntu's DEKKO which does only what the dev's permit. (Dekko is more Ubuntu Propriecr@p ® ) Thunderbird would be okay sort of, and other choices are possibly okay if I can port them ? Is there a way to compile on device ? If so I would just buy it anyway and have a go at it... (Once upon a time I used Kmail which was quite okay) |
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There are some limitations though; If I remember correctly some development libraries can conflict with the versions you have on the device and so it is recommend that you chroot your development environment but that relates to some GUI stuff. As I mainly do console stuff I have not needed to do that. Pretty much anything I need compiles fairly cleanly. |
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https://jolla.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/a...il-application https://jolla.zendesk.com/hc/en-gb/a...0624121901.jpg |
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