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Have you looked into sailfish? No physical keyboard, AFAICT, but it's based on the successor to Maemo. Also, look into the neo900 project and Pyra. Neo900 is t

Have you looked into sailfish? No physical keyboard, AFAICT, but it's based on the successor to Maemo. Also, look into the neo900 project and Pyra. Neo900 is trying to upgrade the n900, and Pyra is the successor to Pandora, which is a pocket computer in a semi-similar vein to the old nokias. Neither is finished, but they're worth a look.

lphnull 10y ago
I've heard of sailfish before, but I had NO idea sailfish is somewhat maemo based. This really makes me want to reconsider the Jolla phone.
- qwertyuiop924 10y ago
  Sailfish is based on Meego, which was a merge of Maemo and another project. It was the OS that backed the N9, the last phone Nokia made before they went to MS.
  - ZenoArrow 10y ago
    > "and another project" The other project was called Moblin. It was an Intel project. It's a shame the N950 never got a proper release. The N9 got praised highly on release, but the N950 would've been the true successor to the N900.
- Nition 10y ago
  Jolla was formed by devs that left Nokia after they abandoned Meego. I had an N9 and currently have the Jolla phone with Sailfish. They're very similar.
- skykooler 10y ago
  Keep in mind, if you live in the US, that the Jolla is an EU phone, and doesn't support US 3G or 4G frequencies. I was stuck with a Jolla on 2G for a while. Recently I got a OnePlus X and installed Sailfish OS on that, and the experience has been much better.
ryukafalz 10y ago
Sailfish is cool, I used to use it on my Nexus 4. Its app support has never been quite as good as Maemo's, IMO. The neo900 makes me sad, because it's basically my ideal phone, but the price is just too much for me. I know it's not their fault, the low production quantities will do that, but still. It's an updated n900, with a fully FOSS stack and an isolated baseband to boot... awesome.
- joshumax 10y ago
  Did you check out the Openmoko Forerunner GTA04? Golden delicious just started early production!
Shugyousha 10y ago
I would have bought a Jolla ~4 years ago if their UI components (Silica) were open source. They said then that they plan on Open Sourcing them but they still haven't. Plasma Mobile and Tizen are my only hopes for getting a non-Android Open Source OS on my phone.

lphnull 10y ago

I've heard of sailfish before, but I had NO idea sailfish is somewhat maemo based. This really makes me want to reconsider the Jolla phone.

qwertyuiop924 10y ago
Sailfish is based on Meego, which was a merge of Maemo and another project. It was the OS that backed the N9, the last phone Nokia made before they went to MS.
- ZenoArrow 10y ago
  > "and another project" The other project was called Moblin. It was an Intel project. It's a shame the N950 never got a proper release. The N9 got praised highly on release, but the N950 would've been the true successor to the N900.
Nition 10y ago
Jolla was formed by devs that left Nokia after they abandoned Meego. I had an N9 and currently have the Jolla phone with Sailfish. They're very similar.
skykooler 10y ago
Keep in mind, if you live in the US, that the Jolla is an EU phone, and doesn't support US 3G or 4G frequencies. I was stuck with a Jolla on 2G for a while. Recently I got a OnePlus X and installed Sailfish OS on that, and the experience has been much better.

ryukafalz 10y ago

Sailfish is cool, I used to use it on my Nexus 4. Its app support has never been quite as good as Maemo's, IMO. The neo900 makes me sad, because it's basically my ideal phone, but the price is just too much for me. I know it's not their fault, the low production quantities will do that, but still. It's an updated n900, with a fully FOSS stack and an isolated baseband to boot... awesome.

joshumax 10y ago
Did you check out the Openmoko Forerunner GTA04? Golden delicious just started early production!

Shugyousha 10y ago

I would have bought a Jolla ~4 years ago if their UI components (Silica) were open source. They said then that they plan on Open Sourcing them but they still haven't. Plasma Mobile and Tizen are my only hopes for getting a non-Android Open Source OS on my phone.