Jolla released the tenth major update for Sailfish today, bumping the version number to the as always very useful and helpful 1.1.1.26. The name of the update, also as always in Finnish, isn’t helping either: Vaarainj~A¤rvi. Joking aside, this tenth update is a massive one – virtually every aspect of the operating system is touched upon in some way, from the lower levels all the way up to UI tweaks.
It’s 1.5GB in size, which is pretty huge in Sailfish terms, so make sure to have enough free space for the initial download.
The update went perfectly for me. Man, I love this phone! I’m so tempted to order that amazing looking sliding keyboard attachment that’s in development. Sigh. Maybe I’ll get one for Christmas.
I’m sure all three Jolla users will be happy.
As a Jolla user, I am happy.
Certainly happier than when I had various Android phones.
And even happier that I’m not one of the Sheeple.
How about the windows phonies? You forgot to make fun of them. Or do you only discrimate against majority groups?
Err, not sure I was discriminating. But yes I am also glad I never went for a Windows phone. As was almost everyone else in the world.
The update went smooth for me, but beware: It’s on hold right now, as there has been a bug that prevents login with the new alphanumeric login method. So, take care and don’t use that feature if you updated already!
https://together.jolla.com/question/71741/release-notes-on-hold-soft…
Is there a way to run Jolla in virtualbox?
Yes. If you download the developer SDK it comes with a virtualbox installation for testing.
Although, using a mouse on a normal screen doesn’t show it’s great usability very well, obviously.
I tried that but it is not what I expected. It probably only shows how to make apps and let them integrate. But I don’t see how it would act as a phone in my hand.
Am I missing something?
I’m not quite sure what you mean. But when you compile an example program in the QtCreator IDE and then deploy to the emulator, it runs a virtualbox instance of Sailfish and installs the example app.
You can then interact with the OS and your app as you would if it were on a real phone.
I am not that smart. I want the same image that is on a sailfish phone. No compiling or application development.
Ah okay, in that case I don’t think it is possible to get what you’re after.
Yes, I guess via the SDK:
https://sailfishos.org/develop-overview-article.html
If you have an Android phone, then there is a Jolla Launcher for Android. It allows you use the Jolla user interface on an Android phone in an easy and non-commital way:
https://jolla.com/stella/
…I’m not sure if it also allows you to run Jolla applications. I didn’t really learn too much about it because I don’t have an Android phone to try it on.
Also, I thought there was a non-Angry Birds version, but I can’t seem to find it.
Cool. I will try that, thanks.
There is, but it seems to still be in beta, and I had to search around the net for the apk of it, and it crashed quite a bit, and the notifications portion didn’t seem to quite work right. This Angry-Bird edition doesn’t seem to handle notifications correctly either.
My biggest problem with it is that I think I would need the dialer and contacts apps replaced as well. It’s worse than trying to run Enlightenment apps under KDE. You have this awesome interface (Jolla Launcher) then you try to make a call, and it opens up the horrible, blocky default dialer.
like making OOM release bg browser tabs or release ogl surfaces of bg apps and not kill phone ui.
I wonder how did it used to manage basic multitasking w/o that.