29 Nov
2019
29 Nov
'19
10:43 p.m.
Good to hear that Sailfish OS is still around For many years, it was
difficult to find a Sailfish OS phone that would support North American
cellular frequencies. Hopefully, that has changed. Maybe there's a Sony
phone, or some other phones that can be flashed with Sailfish OS & will
support North American LTE frequencies. Great to hear that there's an
Android emulator that works fairly well for Sailfish OS!
On Fri, Nov 29, 2019 at 2:26 PM deloptes <deloptes(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Robert Peters wrote:
HI,
Does anyone recommend a Linux-based system that can be installed on a
smartphone, to replace the Google Android system?
Robert
I was using Nokia N9 before - the only linux based phone created ever and
working perfectly for many years. From the project emerged Mer, Jolla and
Sailfish OS.
Now I have been using Sailfish OS for the past couple of years and it works
very well. I recommend having a look at it.
They use the AOSP program from Sony, so at the moment Xperia X and XA2 are
officially supported, however there are many community ports for other
devices. Disadvantage is the eco system and the android emulator is not
available to the community ports. The emulator costs 50€ and you can use
perhaps 90% of the android apps. For XA2 the kernel is 4.9 AFAIR with
Android 8.x emulator.
I personally have looked at many other options to replace N9 may be 5y ago
but this was the only one that makes sense to me. It is very transparent
and open and has a large community.
Some skills are required to flash and maintain, but well freedom is not
something you get in the help desk.
regards
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