What actually is Aurora OS and who is using it?

I know what people argue. I read the messages.
I have addressed those concerns. Did you read the messages?

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i’ve read the messages, but you didn’t seem to comprehend

Are you ok mister? :smile:

But no 5G? Or, am I wrong?

Why there is no 5G in Russia? It cannot be because of the sanctions, cause they can buy it from Huawei. Like all the chinese cars that are fulfilling the western market gap in Russia.

Using https://tsargrad-tv.translate.goog/news/svjaz-5g-ne-nuzhna-jeksperty-objasnili-pochemu-v-rossii-reshili-perejti-srazu-k-6g_593528 gives for the text body of that page:

5G connection is not needed: Experts explained why Russia decided to switch straight to 6G

5G communication is not needed in our country, so it was decided to immediately focus on developing the 6G standard. Industry experts explained the advantages.

Skoltech and the Radio Research Institute are working on a project to develop Russian equipment for 6G. They have determined that at least 30 billion rubles will be needed at the first stage. The equipment will presumably appear by 2025.

At the moment, the development of 6G is only at the initial stage. Expectations from the sixth generation mobile communication standard have been outlined. The prospects for the emergence of 6G were discussed by members of the International Telecommunication Union back in 2018, but the formation of the technical standard will begin only in 2027.

It is believed that 6G will provide holographic communication (broadcasting, multimedia, telephone), as well as communication with extremely fast response in emergency situations. The data transfer rate will exceed 1 terabit per second. The use of artificial intelligence is planned from the early stages of design.

The fifth generation of communications is being introduced all over the world, but in Russia they decided that 5G communications are not needed. No one in Russia has it in commercial operation. It is a matter of the operating range. The 5G standard requires frequencies of 3.4-3.8 GHz, but Russian special services use it, Kommersant writes .

One of the major telecommunications companies explained that it is currently more important to maintain the 4G infrastructure in the country, which is difficult due to sanctions and equipment shortages. This standard fully satisfies customer demands. According to experts, customers would not even notice the transition from 4G to 5G.



You see, “buzzword bingo” by marketing departments sounds much the same all over the world: e.g. “6G will provide holographic communication”!

But then they eagerly point out that many other reasons exist which make 5G in Russia unnecessary and infeasible, e.g. “The 5G standard requires frequencies of 3.4-3.8 GHz, but Russian special services use it”: While the second part of this statement might be true, the first part is 90% false (i.e. either a radical misinterpretation of the 5G standards or depicting them deliberately in a massively distorted way).


Ultimately, the underlying theme is is also a common message by governmental entities and other entities close to governments:

The future is going to be so bright that we’all gotta wear shades.
And the rays from the promise of that bright future do successfully blind many people today. :wink:

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The equipment will presumably appear by 2025

For context, the article is dated 27 July 2022.

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damn, what a shithole

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I would love to try Aurora os, but, goddamn, that phone is uglier than the Jolla C2.

That is not the biggest problem, though.
The biggest problem is I don’t know if people from outside of Russia get access to updates and to the app store.

Did anyone outside of Russia review this phone?

I noticed somebody has forked my SailMines application and modified it for AuroraOS. Sadly, none of the changes they’ve made are applicable to the SFOS version - but at least they respected the license and kept my name / copyright in it.

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Well, if you check out the github project of the author, you will find another game for AuroraOS (GitHub - goroleo/ColorTubes) - looks like AuroraOS is using a newer version of QT than SFOS, since the project references the “svg” module (QT 5.15?). I was not able to build the project, since they also renamed header files. Maybe somebody is able to “backport” the AuroraOS version of the game to SFOS? The QSvgRenderer may be the biggest hurdle?

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We most definitely have the svg module too.


2GIS maps and navigation are now available to developers of applications on the Aurora OS :world_map::technologist:

2GIS has adapted its Flutter SDK solution for the Russian Aurora OS. All the service’s capabilities — from realistic 3D maps, navigation and route building to object search and offline mode — are now available for the first time in the country on smartphones and tablets based on the domestic operating system.

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damn, now this is really great!

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Rostelecom presented a domestic system for managing the digital environment of cars, Aurora Automotive :red_car:

At the annual business conference “Digital Industry of Industrial Russia” (CIPR), Rostelecom demonstrated the work of Aurora Automotive - an operating system for the digital environment of a car. The solution is based on the Aurora OS.

The platform will provide automakers with deep integration with car systems to implement the wide functionality of multimedia and information products.

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Hopefully their build is breaking some GNU/GPL laws and it will get open sourced once the international court of open source laws applies sanctions for the 18th time, the 102 version of FF is already triggering the cloudflare ‘your browser is too old’, there is no hope chasing the cloudflare dragon with jolla browser it seems, stealing (reusing) what russkies do with chrome would be great, no need to spend dev time… Yeah who are we kidding, muh geopolitics
Edit: russians got banned from contributing to linux kernel, israelis getting banned in 3, 2, 1, 1, 1…

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Developing technological sovereignty of BRICS countries: pilot project of Aurora OS devices starts in India :rocket:

The Open Mobile Platform is launching its first international project – pilot implementation of Aurora OS with key government and corporate customers from India.

:handshake: This event highlights a deeper technological partnership between Russia and India aimed at creating a sovereign mobile ecosystem within BRICS.

The partnership between the Open Mobile Platform and the Indian company Foreseer AI was concluded with the assistance of the Indo-Russian Technology Hub in Delhi, the joint venture Innopraktika Russia and BharRosa, as well as the Russoft Association.

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In some ways brics are smarter then us.

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Looks not so smart to me to buy closed source version from russia

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