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Sailfish OS 4.3 (Suomenlinna): In the Early Access channel

. Soon comes the next update for Sailfish OS, which will have especially many bugfixes and a few smaller new features are also added. This YouTube video shows what is new and what has been fixed: YouTube video about SailfishOS 4.3 As always, the Early Access channel here means that only users who have officially signed up for the EA program (beta testing program) are getting this release right now. Typically, and if no major problems ...

Sailfish OS 4.2.0.21 (Verla): Now available for all

. Starting today, the first update from 4.1 to 4.2 is available for all Sailfish OS users. Especially interesting for me is the predictive word preview, which is now also available for the Xperia 10 II besides many changes to the browser, bugfixes, etc. (previously due word preview was only available on older smartphone models with Sailfish OS or via community-developed keyboard models, don’t ask me why ;)). Interesting for me was how well ...

Sailfish OS 4.2 (Verla): New update available in "Early Access" channel

Just recently SailfishOS 4.2 has been made available in the "Early Access" channel and brings a whole bunch of different bug fixes, new features and security fixes. The "Early Access" channel is intended for slightly braver Sailfish OS users who want to try out the update about 1-2 weeks before it is issued to all other users. The full list of features, bug fixes and security improvements can be found here: Release notes Currently, ...

CovPass now also available without Google services for e.g. Sailfish OS with AD

One of the currently most important apps was unfortunately not yet readily available for Sailfish’s Android support, because it uses Google services. We are talking about CovPass. This has changed today because from today on CovPass is available without using Google services (which was unnecessary from the beginning it looks like) thanks to some open source developers also for smartphones without Google services. (besides SailfishOS based ...

Sailfish OS: Major apps, services and new section at PW3d

My new daily driver, the Sony Xperia 10 II with Sailfish OS got a nice cover and little by little I find more and more interesting and important apps for Sailfish OS (often called SFOS). Since the system doesn’t contain any bloatware and leaves practically all decisions to the user, you naturally have to take care of the corresponding software installations yourself in order to be able to activate one or the other feature. To keep this as ...

Sailfish OS: The European smartphone OS

Lately, I have been looking around more and more for a replacement for my Microsoft Lumia 950XL, which I still love, but unfortunately no longer has sufficient app support. Since Mr. Nadela from Microsoft, in his infinite wisdom, has unfortunately discontinued Windows 10 (mobile), I can no longer buy a successor with Windows 10 (mobile). A few months ago, WhatsApp unfortunately left the platform and again a few months later Threema. For a long ...