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I was watching a video yesterday of the founder giving a talk in August, I think it's pretty impressive what they have done in a year with a small team. http://

by dharma1 11y ago

I was watching a video yesterday of the founder giving a talk in August, I think it's pretty impressive what they have done in a year with a small team. http://www.mindtheproduct.com/2015/10/video-hardware-vs-software-product-management/ http://www.mindtheproduct.com/2015/10/video-hardware-vs-soft... I think they should release more details of the OS. Is it Linux with some Android runtime like Jolla, or AOSP fork? I just don't personally know if I could stomach a UI that looks like a shroom trip, but maybe it feels good when you're actually using it. At least it's different I saw another cloud based android phone recently, Robin - http://arstechnica.co.uk/gadgets/2015/09/ex-android-and-htc-employees-launch-robin-a-cloud-first-smartphone/ http://arstechnica.co.uk/gadgets/2015/09/ex-android-and-htc-.... Call me old school but I am not sure I want cloud as the only storage option, definitely not from a new company who might not be around in a years time.

alexanderfinn 11y ago
Solu OS is a forked AOSP underneath with a completely reworked UI. But we also have pretty significant changes at layers of the OS to support some of our unique UX practices and deep cloud integration. As for the cloud concern - you own your data and being a Finnish company we take this seriously. The device itself has a local storage (32Gb in the early prototype, would be increased going forward) but it is being transparently integrated with the cloud storage so that you never run out of space thus we call it "cache". Solu also would allow you to back your data up to the other cloud storage providers (i.e. dropbox, google, amazon, or even your own internet-connected NAS device) as an option.