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Jolla Love Day 2: Das neue Jolla Community Phone C2, das Sailfish OS 4.6 Update und Jollas Mind 2-KI Device

Today was Jolla Love Day 2 with a keynote lasting just over an hour and what can we say: There was a lot that Jolla presented to us. The most important news: Sailfish OS 4.6 update is now available in Early Access Support for the Sony Xperia 10 IV and 10 V will come in 1-2 months, app support then in August A new “Jolla Community Phone C2“ has been introduced Subscription model for app support (and co.) introduced The Mercedes E-Class ...

Sailfish OS: Zimpedia

Sometimes you get into situations where the internet just doesn’t work as well as you would like it to. The connection can be poor when you’re out for a walk in the woods, or even in the city there can be dropouts in buildings and so on. If you still need access to wikis, for example, you may have a problem. That’s where Zimpedia comes in. The app can read and search so-called ZIM files. These are practically zipped versions of the website ...

Sailfish OS: Rumors about Sailfish OS 4.6 and new smartphones

FOSDEM took place in Brussels and there were some very interesting rumors about new versions and new supported devices, which I would like to talk about in this video. And if you’d like to answer a few questions from Jolla to help them understand what their customers want to see in the future, please let them know here (note: this is done with Microsoft Forms): Survey

3d Pressure from keyboard supports: The one that keeps breaking or getting lost...

Who doesn’t know them: Those little supports on keyboards that make the keyboard stand up and thus improve the typing feel. A tiny part of half a cent, which destroys the whole feeling as soon as it breaks, but of course only accounts for a fraction of the actual device. And, of course, the gizmos have to be slightly different for virtually all keyboards. But this is where a 3d printer helps tremendously: I’ve now printed several different ...

Sailfish OS: Situations

The Situations app is a very helpful companion for SFOS users. It lets the user respond to different situations with automatic actions. You leave the house? Maybe you want to switch on mobile data instead of WLAN? One is in a meeting? Now all indications should be switched to mute? Situations can do it for you. How this basically works can be seen in this video:

Sailfish OS: Shake Torch

An app that sounds really good then showed me after a few days that it also has its downsides. It’s about Shake Torch. This is a Sailfish OS app that turns on the camera light when you shake the phone. This works not bad at all (you can see it well in this video here): Only... it works "always". So, for example, even if you are in a hurry and have the phone in your pocket, or you walk with the smartphone in hand and PureMaps / the navigator ...