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Jolla J2 Unboxing and First Impressions (youtube.com)

submitted 1 week ago by _ed@sopuli.xyz to c/linuxphones@lemmy.ca

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cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/48809351

YT desc: First impressions of the Finnish phone company Jolla's new phone running SailfishOS, a Linux distribution with the ability to run Android applications on the device.

Looks like the viewer hasnt used the os before which makes for a bit more interesting pov

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[–] JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Eh, there's more apps than on the UBports. But you still have the app support (for some reason, it's not available on the unofficial devices(why?)).

[–] erebion@news.erebion.eu 1 points 1 day ago

AppSupport is proprietary, I'd just use Waydroid. No artificial limtation and licence requirements there.