Xperia 10 III with sailfishOS is my allday phone! I came from webOS (I still miss it). No Android in between.
Only at work, I have to use iOS 
brrrr.
When I was a kid, there were Nokia devices around. Actually, the N9 had become my best phone in the real sense. We had paid quite a lot of money for it, and in a way it was also the time when I first got introduced to Linux. But MeeGo⌠no need to tell the rest =/ It kind of left me halfwayâŚ
After that, I used devices like iPhones for a long time. I didnât know about Sailfish OS back then. Years later, when I heard about it and experienced SFOS with the Xperia 10 III, it took me back to those first days of my childhood. Thatâs why I get excited about a lot of things.
When I opened the box of the N9, I was so happy; I had never been that happy with any other phone. I may have even bought the J2 for that reason. Nokia was a company that gave happinessâŚ
My home screen is like this. On SFOS, these are the native/official apps I use; for the rest, I use Android apps. For me, itâs a big need =)
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Going against the grain here, but I tried SFOS on Xperia10 iii for a few weeks last year. I tried using it as my primary phone, but I rely on a small number of Android apps - some of which used Bluetooth - and I decided that SFOS was not going to work for me as a âdaily driverâ. Which is sad because have worked with smartphones since the days of Symbian, and was even briefly involved in MeeGo development through work, and I would love to see a Linux-based smartphone OS as a workable alternative to Android.
I donât have spare time to contribute to SFOS: my spare âworkâ time is taken up with LineageOS for microG, but I lurk here, and am open to trying SFOS again in future. But for now, my âdaily driverâ is an Xperia 10 v running LineageOS for microG, and the 10 iii is now running a LineageOS for microG GSI
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you probably know, but im just making sure youâre aware that bluetooth android apps work in SFOS appsupport now (as does microg and opengapps).
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as for me, my DD is 10III running SFOS 5.0 (waiting for flashable img for 5.1, and waiting even more excitedly for JP2). my first âsmartâ phone was the N900, then the N9 for EVER, then a galaxy S5 running cyanogen mod for about a year, then the Xperia X, Xc, XZ2c, 10II, and 10III, all running SFOS.
i love it, and i kinda hate it. sailfish is such a pain, especially in north america, because of the connectivity issues (SMS, MMS, android mobile data, GPS, VoLTE, you name it, itâs either finally fixed after a decade of being broken, or itâs still broken)âŚbut SFOS is like 7x better than android.
when i go to the gym, i click a single launcher that starts my BLE heartrate chest strap monitor, opens my barcode zoomed in for easy scanning, and plots my most recent runs in gnuplot so i can decide on speed and distance.
yesterday, i found out that facebook, which i hate a lot but need, can run in the background if i open a link through FBmessenger and hit Back, and that it eats CPU (mining btc perhaps?) when it gets stuck like that. so i modified the lipstick QML to print out the running window classNames in the window switcher whenever a window is added or closed, and i check if facebook is running but no window is open and kill it.
triple clicking volume down turns all the lights in my house off for bed. i have a timed command that checks if i forgot to charge my phone while i still have time to charge it. etc etc
all this silly crap is easy to do, because i can just write a bash, perl, python, or QML script to do it, and run literally the same software on my laptop.
meanwhile, i literally could not figure out a way to programmatically turn the display off on my non-rooted android tablet. i think there might not be a way.
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Thanks. I didnât know that. Can the BT connection now be shared between SFOS an Anfoid apps? E.g Audio from SFOS routed to BT speaker or headset, at the same time as Android app such as Garmin Connect is connected by BT to a watch?
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Yes, though I do have a secondary Android phone.
Thats the idea yes. Although still in beta stage: AppSupport Bluetooth feedback thread - #84 by frankps
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Thanks. Then Iâll maybe look again in the Autumn, when it might be out of beta and I should have more time
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Been using my Xperia 10iii since 2023 with a break for a few month when I had to use iPhone, swapped back as soon as I could
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Glad to see the proton package in there, since I move from Android to SFOS in september (hopefully)
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So nice to see BitSailor in there! Actually the first visual proof someone is using it Iâve seen!
I like this kind of proof more than the usual proof-by-bug-report. 
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Sailfish has been my smartphone operating system of choice since 2014. I started with the Jolla 1, C, Xperia X, XA2, and C2.
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Xperia X
Xperia XA2
Xperia 10
Xperia 10 II
Xperia 10 III
Been using SFOS since 2017 time flies! C2 is my primary phone.
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I use SFOS for some years as daily driver (and no other mobile OS):
- Sony Xperia 10 II
- Sony Xperia 10 III (main driver till today)
- C2
- Likely the J2 as my main soon.
Best regards
Fuchur
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If it wasnât for Bitsailor, I probably wouldnât have started using Sailfish as a primary back in 2023
25 posts were split to a new topic: Sailfish OS design needs a refresh
Before Sailfish, N900, N9, maemo/meego. Since 2016, primarily SFOS. First the J1.
From about 2020, Fairphone2. Since 2022, volla phone or other gigaset derivative phones, with an xperia 10iii as a backup. The daily driver is a ârephoneâ which is a gigaset GS5 pro in a different dress. I donât use android, but have a vollaphone with android for 1: the postal service in germany (used twice in a month) 2: whatsapp used about once a year,
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Guys I think youâre being mean to author of this topic by going so insanely off-topic
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