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    SailfishOS for my favourite device - how difficult?

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    JoOppen | # 1 | 2015-11-21, 13:50 | Report

    This is about the future of SailfishOS. It would be great if I could install SFOS on a device of my choice. I don't know how difficult this is. I know that there is a community ports of SFOS for the nexus 5 and I know that stskeeps managed to bring SFOS on a intel platform (the Jolla tablet). I know that I cannot do that.

    So here is my question: how difficult would it be to make versions of SFOS that can be installed by a user like me? Maybe stskeeps can tell ...

    I believe that such product could create some interest because it would allow for individual devices the user can create himself to some extend. I would happily pay for a SFOS lisense.

    As a sidenote:
    I am dreaming of a pocketable device that I can use one-handed and nearly blindly via the touch screen and that further has a hw keyboard and precise stylus so I can run desktop apps if I need (like with easy debian on the N900).

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    Giraffe | # 2 | 2015-11-21, 19:38 | Report

    Well, I think its very difficult for sb who is a absolutely beginner like me.
    So I' m searching for sb who is helping me to install ubiboot & Saifish OS on my N9. I'm living in FRANCONIA, which the same as Northern Bavaria

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    m4r0v3r | # 3 | 2015-11-21, 23:56 | Report

    A fully working port with support seems like a difficult thing to price.

    Since first they would have to port ot to your phone/device. Fix all the bugs and whenever a new update is released fix the bugs that creates. If you want Sailfish on a device not the Jolla. Go get the Nexus 5.

    The porting team have done a blinding job on it.

    Sent from my Nexus 5 running Sailfish

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    romu | # 4 | 2015-11-22, 10:23 | Report

    Like previous comment, I totally ditched my Jolla phone for a Nexus 5, which is a far better device. Only missing things:
    - flashlight which doesn't work
    - no offline navigation
    - no Android apps.

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    pagis | # 5 | 2015-11-22, 11:15 | Report

    Originally Posted by romu View Post
    Like previous comment, I totally ditched my Jolla phone for a Nexus 5, which is a far better device. Only missing things:
    - flashlight which doesn't work
    - no offline navigation
    - no Android apps.
    does Nexus 5 needs to be unlocked first or any Nexus 5 model can can be flashed?

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    acrux | # 6 | 2015-11-22, 11:50 | Report

    The better place to ask is probably a sailfish on nexus 5 topic in this forum, but the answer should be yes and yes

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