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Thing is- the market is rather crowded nowadays. Producing a device dual booting Android & Meego/Sailfish might not be that stupid after all. Of course this won't happen, but there have been ideas that were a lot more stupid.
 

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That's interesting
"HMD Global was created six months ago explicitly for the purpose of creating Nokia phones. HMD is still a Finnish company, and 16 of the 17 executives on HMD's "Team" page are former Nokia employees".
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/...oming-in-2017/
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The fact these new devices will be Android based means it'll be of no use to the majority here.
 

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Originally Posted by gerbick View Post
The fact these new devices will be Android based means it'll be of no use to the majority here.
Not sure how you work that out. I would think the majority of people have an Android or iOS phone for practicality reasons. Plus if the new Nokia devices are well designed then they'd beer possible donor devices for other OS installs.
 

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Originally Posted by aegis View Post
Not sure how you work that out. I would think the majority of people have an Android or iOS phone for practicality reasons. Plus if the new Nokia devices are well designed then they'd beer possible donor devices for other OS installs.
I figured that out by the outright disdain for Android that's exhibited in this forum ad nauseum.

Folks here were/are up in arms about Sailfish having Android and the rampant "I'll never run it" mantra from key members, albeit somewhat grating, is oft repeated.

I don't think that it's exaggerated at all.
 

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Of course Android has its uses, if it didn't it would not sell so much.
For myself it is just an useful component providing hardware adaptation libraries for devices.

I have to grant it is wonderful that Android is so abundant; Imagine if all devices were WP/iOS, it would be absolutely impossible to port any decent OS to those devices.
 

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Don't get me wrong, I have outright disdain for Android too. Unfortunately it's the only workable OS just now.
 

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Originally Posted by aegis View Post
Don't get me wrong, I have outright disdain for Android too. Unfortunately it's the only workable OS just now.
And that just sounds like settling*

*Note: I'm having to use an iPhone and iPad for creative and work purposes now. I know a shitload about "settling"... ugh.
 

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Out of curiosity.
From your all estimate, how likely is it or what would need to happen that HMD offers dualboot option android/sailfish ?

Given they are ex-nokians as i read, maybe they have a sentimental vein Jolla could tap somehow

Like "hey, sent us a prototype and we will adapt SFOS free of charge just for the major exposure, reach and bilateral heartwarming PR story?"

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Originally Posted by gerbick View Post
And that just sounds like settling*

*Note: I'm having to use an iPhone and iPad for creative and work purposes now. I know a shitload about "settling"... ugh.
In that it's the only one I've found that has an acceptable mix of features and apps I need, decent relatively inexpensive hardware versus the pain of an ugly UI.

Yep, settling. If we had more decent options then it would be a choice rather than a compromise.
 

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