I was hoping Sailfish OS would be at least somewhat usable on this device, but it seems that the current version of the UI doesn’t adapt to feature phones at all.
This raises the question: What happened to the feature phone UI that was demonstrated in 2018 and advertised on Jolla’s website? Does this prototype still exist somewhere? How many changes to the Sailfish UI code were required to make it work on feature phones?
It would be really nice if SFOS would be on feature phones. As far as I know that was a custom SFOS build that was never abailable to the public but was a technical demonstration that shows how did they imagine a feature phone UI for SFOS.
@affe_null I guess you need to patch the UI to replace touch actions with keypresses?
It’d be super cool to have SFOS on feature phones. Perhaps you can ask Jolla for a little help in one of the IRC community meetings?
If I was HMD (Nokia), I’d license SFOS for my feature phone line. It’d be awesome to have small but smart devices. KaiOS was pretty cool, but it seems Google is trying to kill them by pushing Android Go everywhere.
Many feature phones had browsers. Windows Mobile Phone Edition had Internet Explorer, Opera was on a truckload of operating systems, Nokia and SonyEricsson had their own default web browsers (and I’m not counting WML/WAP-only browsers). The modern web isn’t quite suited to such a small-screen device, but a browser is certainly possible.
Unfortunately it won’t work on such old devices. The phone needs to have at least 512MB RAM. The Nokia 8000 4G is one of the newer KaiOS-based phones, which use the same chips as some entry-level Android phones.
I would also like to point out again that there is currently no working Sailfish UI for this phone, and a working port is not likely to exist without Jolla’s help. Even if I modified the UI to work, I wouldn’t be allowed to share it due to the closed-source license.
