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eekkelund | # 141 | 2016-11-29, 08:16 | Report

New press release from Jolla!

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Sailfish OS advancing in BRICS countries: official status achieved in Russia, discussions started in China and South Africa

Slush 2016, Helsinki, Finland,November29,2016-Jolla Ltd., the Finnish mobile company and developer of open mobile operating system Sailfish OS today announced that Sailfish OS has been officially accepted as the only mobile OS in Russia to be used in governmental and government controlled corporations’ upcoming mobile device projects. Jolla has also started discussions in China and South Africa about building local mobile OS ecosystems for the countries

Edit: Techcrunch article

Last edited by eekkelund; 2016-11-29 at 08:44.

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Peccelius | # 142 | 2016-11-29, 10:19 | Report

Originally Posted by eekkelund View Post

New press release from Jolla!

Edit: Techcrunch article

Good stuff! But where are the devices?
Sad to hear that Aquafish 2 is not in the plans, not that surprising though.

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itdoesntmatt | # 143 | 2016-11-29, 10:30 | Report

where did you read that?

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Peccelius | # 144 | 2016-11-29, 10:46 | Report

Techcrunch article:

"And while Saarnio says he remains confident that, over the longer term, consumers will also come around to seeking a privacy-focused alternative to Android, for now he concedes there is no mass market for Sailfish — and confirms there are currently no plans for Intex to do another Sailfish device — hence Jolla’s pivot of focus to b2b2b and b2b2g licensing partnerships."

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gerbick | # 145 | 2016-11-29, 10:56 | Report

Cool announcement. Wish it'd mean a 4G Sailfish officially launched and supported phone that would work in the North American markets.

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aegis | # 146 | 2016-11-29, 12:21 | Report

Sigh. So, it'll be two years to the next device which will be a fallout from a Russian government vanity project.

Can we have Nokia back in charge please?

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strongm | # 147 | 2016-11-29, 12:22 | Report

Let me indicate another telling part of the quote from TechCrunch:

Originally Posted by Peccelius View Post

Techcrunch article:

"And while Saarnio says he remains confident that, over the longer term, consumers will also come around to seeking a privacy-focused alternative to Android, for now he concedes there is no mass market for Sailfish — and confirms there are currently no plans for Intex to do another Sailfish device — hence Jolla’s pivot of focus to b2b2b and b2b2g licensing partnerships."

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strongm | # 148 | 2016-11-29, 12:29 | Report

Originally Posted by MikeHG View Post

Well, that's assuaged the fears I had...

[about machine translation damaging the jobs market, if nothing else. Reminds me of the (probably apocryphal) story of an English <> Russian translation program given the phrase "Out of sight, out of mind" as a test. It translated it into Russian, then back into English as "Blind and mad".]

Version I heard ended up with "Invisible idiot"

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mscion | # 149 | 2016-11-29, 15:25 | Report

Originally Posted by gerbick View Post

Cool announcement. Wish it'd mean a 4G Sailfish officially launched and supported phone that would work in the North American markets.

What 4G frequencies are used in Russia?

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gerbick | # 150 | 2016-11-29, 15:44 | Report

Originally Posted by mscion View Post

What 4G frequencies are used in Russia?

Not the same ones as North America... we're the odd ones out it seems.

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