Like I said : Their Flip model is something I wouldnât mind having and installing Sailfish on! https://www.gsmarena.com/asus_zenfone_8_flip-10892.php
Not the cheapest but I would rather pay that amount for it than I would for many other phones these days!
Seems Planet Computers has âplanned supportâ for Sailfish on the Astro Slide, along with Debian and Kali. Its not mentioned on that indiegogo page, but certainly is on the Planet Computers own product page Astro Slide 5G - Planet Computers (in the section on âPlatformâ). No indication whether Jolla feels the same way thoughâŠ
Planet anounced SfOS for the Cosmo as well - they even had a Sailfish Logo on the Indiegogo site. Apart from an alpha release and some updated packages there has never been an active community around this device, so I wouldnât bet on support for itâs succesor. I guess the Gemini PDA is still the safest bet for a keyboard device running SailfishOS. There was a quite active community around the F(X)tec Pro1. It got a bit quiet around this device, though, and I donât even know if the Pro1x is supported at all.
The article in English (much better understandable for most of us Sailors):
The article ends with:
"According to the application, Jolla signed a multi-year licensing agreement with the Hong Kong company Chinastone in 2021, and is targeting the Chinese market with the agreement.
According to the company, the agreement will generate significant license fees for it in the next few years."
I am more than happy to pay a yearly fee to keep sailing and to keep this secure and privacy respecting OS alive.
So from one country under sanctions Jolla goes to the next country that is already under partial sanctions and will be under severe sanctions should it decide to invade Taiwan, I guess these geopolitically risky moves are either the only way Jolla can stay afloat or the board room is just incapable of taking geopolitics into account (which seems to be a common issue in High Tech, I worked at a place that was actively working on setting up a new location in Ukraine when that war started while the writing had been on the wall for a while by then).