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It’s official: Jolla Tablet is dead, 540 units to be shipped
It almost seemed like a fairy tale, with Jolla successfully funding not one but two Jolla Tablet crowdfunding campaigns, raking in thousands of dollars in the process. After a more or less prestigious...
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Ultra-strong Turing Phone ditches Android for Sailfish OS
Ultra-strong both in software and in materials. That was the promise that Turing Robotic Industries (TRI) made with its Turing Phone, which, a good number of pre-order buyers have indeed believed....
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Nissan “Winter Warrior” trio revealed for Chicago Auto Show
This week the folks at Nissan have revealed three new vehicles - concepts the lot of them. Each of them is ready to roll with winter weather preparedness - extreme winter weather preparedness, with...
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Jolla’s Aqua Fish swims into MWC 2016 to prove Sailfish OS isn’t dead
Jolla's hardware plans may have crashed and burned, but the company's strategy of licensing its Sailfish OS has borne fruit here at Mobile World Congress. The first smartphone to run Sailfish 2.0 has...
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Jolla secures more funding, refunds rolling out
Jolla had a dream, to take succeed where Nokia failed in the smartphone industry after the latter's acquiescence to Microsoft. The software part was relatively easy. It already had the experience in...
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Ubuntu bq Aquaris M10 Review Part 2: Software
In part one of our rather lengthy review, we took a look at the bq Aquaris M10 Ubuntu tablet's hardware. Suffice it to say, it perfectly played the role of a mid-range tablet. While the device had a...
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Meizu PRO 5 Ubuntu Edition Review
Despite Nokia ex-CEO Stephen Elop's boasts, the smartphone market has indeed become a two-horse race between Android and iOS. Of course, just because those two have pretty much cornered the mobile...
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Jolla Sailfish OS gets certified for Russian government use
Things have been a little rough so far this year for Jolla, the Finnish startup behind the open-source Sailfish OS. First its tablet device was confirmed dead after a mere 540 units were shipped, and...
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Jolla Sailfish OS might be coming to a smartwatch near you
Smartwatches might no longer be the hot items they once were, if they truly were, but some seem to be unwilling to call it quits on the market. In fact, some are still just catching up to smartwatches....
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Year of the Linux desktop: better luck next time
Every upcoming new year has been predicted, or wished rather, to be the year when the Linux operating system in its desktop form would finally explode into the mainstream. That has actually become a...
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Jolla plans to put Sailfish OS on Sony Xperia phones
Jolla isn’t dead, or at least that’s the sentiment it’s trying to air at MWC 2017. The Finnish company, rising from the ashes of the old Nokia, may no longer be making and selling devices, but it’s...
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Nintendo Switch would have run Android, Cyanogen refused
There’s a rather harsh saying that goes “beggars can’t be choosers”. Apparently, that doesn’t apply to Cyanogen, Inc. The once esteemed startup has practically descended into ignominy, which...
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Turing Phone maker enlists TCL for AI-assisted Appassionato phone
While TCL does have its own smartphones under the Alcatel brand, it seems to have stumbled upon a new business. It is probably becoming the go to manufacturer for smartphone makers who are no longer...
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Youyota Sailfish OS tablet tries to revive a failed Jolla dream
Just because you’re a somewhat popular company that managed to successfully deliver a crowdfunded product doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll be able to do it again. Not even if you rake in more than $2...
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Xperia X Sailfish OS port is almost here and it’s not free
Jolla is not one to give up it seems, no matter how the odds are stacked against it. Now carrying nothing more than a dream long forgotten and a legacy long abandoned, the Finnish startup formed from...
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Purism Librem 5: the promise of a truly free, truly open phone
Part of the appeal of Android is its openness, at least compared to iOS. But, let’s face it. Google isn’t running a charity and Android’s direction will always be aligned with Google’s business. There...
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Sony releases AOSP Android 8.0 for Xperia X line
Sony’s Xperia smartphones aren’t exactly the most popular nor the best selling Android smartphones in the market but they have one thing that no OEM, not even those close to Google, has. A...
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Jolla wants to sell your phone Sailfish OS
Jolla announced today that they’ll be selling Sailfish OS to select smartphone users starting this year. The first device they’ve chosen to work with is quite likely the least popular top-name brand...
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Jolla Sailfish OS 3 coming to feature phones
Jolla’s story was somewhat like a fairy tale gone wrong. Rising from the ashes of the old Nokia (before HMD Global resurrected it directly), Jolla tried to carve out a niche market with a new phone and...
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LG webOS Open Source Edition kicks off global trek
To consumers, and probably even to some businesses, there are really only a handful of operating systems in the world. There’s Windows, Mac, and Linux for desktops and Android and iOS for mobile. Of...
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