The Finnish company Jolla is back with the Linux-powered Jolla Phone. It’s being positioned as an antidote to the US-dominated smartphone status quo of Android and iOS.

https://archive.md/K9AhG

The Finnish company Jolla is back with the Linux-powered Jolla Phone. It’s being positioned as an antidote to the US-dominated smartphone status quo of Android and iOS.

  • Heinous@feddit.onlineEnglish
    252·
    2 days ago

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzCMKbhK-EY

    Pity about the pay-walled factory reset and the closed source software they use like drivers, homescreen UI, the compositor, some QML components and the Android compatibility layer

    It wouldn’t bother me so much if they weren’t specifically positioning themselves as privacy and FOSS advocates

      • hietsu@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        9·
        2 days ago

        In odd chance that you happened to forget your encryption password on old Jolla, the reset needed factory assistance, which cost some tens of dollars. So a nothingburger really, did not appear predatory, simply a bit lacking UX design.