Today KaiOS Technologies, maker of KaiOS, the leading mobile operating system for smart feature phones, and Mozilla, developer of one of the world’s leading web browsers, announced a partnership to enhance the Gecko engine for KaiOS, enabling a more diverse and open mobile internet for users around the world. Kai’s engineering expertise and Mozilla’s software support together will ensure future versions of Gecko are compatible with KaiOS-enabled devices and their web-based resources.
I really want a KaiOS device to give the platform a proper test. It seems like such an elegant midway point between the cell phone of yore and modern smartphones.
I really liked my ZTE open C when I had it… it wasn’t perfect but I still liked it and it was only $50.
Thom said, “It seems like such an elegant midway point between the cell phone of yore and modern smartphones.”
I thought that too, and I want to believe it can be.
But here is my review of KaiOS this time last year:
osnews.com/story/129703/kaios-may-succeed-where-android-go-edition-has-failed/#comment-10399880
“In short, don’t” was how I summarised the experience.
A year is a long time, but probably not long enough. The hardware manufacturer assured me it was the latest, unadulterated OS from KaiOS, and it was therefore totally out of their hands and I was getting the best possible experience.
[Edit: If I put the HTTPS full address in WordPress converts it into a link to the main story and strips out the link to my comment, hence the edit.]
M.Only,
I’ve been doing the same thing, removing the full HTTPS/HTTP portion of URLs because I absolutely hate that wordpress replaces my links with embedded content. Argh! Just because I link to something doesn’t mean I want to embed it in my post!
Here’s a tip though, if you keep the www. portion but strip off the HTTPS:// portion, wordpress will convert the url to a link (not HTTPS, but still a link) but fail to catch the URL in it’s pattern matching for embedding content. This is probably a wordpress bug/shortcoming, but hey I’ll take advantage of it to get rid of these unwanted embeds.
I’d be interested to read a full review if it’s still on the cards, or can recommend one. The points you mention are mostly bugs, and so it’s not impossible to imagine they’ve been fixed since then. But it’s the deeper more general issues that you allude to at the end of your earlier post (as well as the strengths and benefits) that would be more interesting to hear about.