This release continues to improve the Sailfish OS 2.0 experience. Storage settings allow users to format, and safely eject memory cards. It also provides access to the files on the device and on memory cards. Cloud support continues to evolve with a support of VK and with backup support for OneDrive and DropBox. With release 2.0.2 Sailfish OS adds support for Intex Aqua Fish and Jolla C devices. New hardware features of the devices, like FM radio and Dual SIM are now supported.
Sailfish users know where to get the update. There’s also a much more detailed changelog.
An uneventful upgrade – as usual.
Uneventful is good in my view, as the operating system is working great for me. There are things I’d like Jolla to improve, like the app store experience and new hardware. I’d also like the app ecosystem to be more lively. But the core OS and update frequency have been the better parts of this ride so far.
The browser seems to be stuck with outdated version of Gecko, and IPCembedlite project is dead. Jolla so far didn’t answer what they plan to do about it.
I don’t understand what they’re doing here. I want to buy a Jolla C Tablet: I can’t. I want to buy a Jolla Phone: I can’t.
How are they generating revenue? What can they possibly see as a viable future here?
I’m all for alternative OSes and people with grand ideas to shake up the word. SkyOS, AtheOS/Syllable, Haiku, OpenBSD… these things are/were amazing accomplishments, they’re fun, they help introduce people to new technologies and they teach us what’s possible. They were a stepping stone to many upcoming hackers. Meanwhile, we have a supposed great OS here… but no one can use it.
I just don’t get it.
I’m right there with you BUT.
I’m a happy Jolla owner, bought in EU (my origin) but use it in Canada with being stuck in 2G/wifi only. I still prefer it to iPhone or Android and I got a lot of nifty things “hacked in”.
I have to agree tho that Jolla missed it’s own boat at least three times now. They should’ve gone global band support from day one.
On the other hand having worked for a mobile carrier and a small start up working in embedded/mobile space I know how much of a clusterfrack the embedded/mobile/licensing scene is, especially in US and North America.
I bet that for each “stupid” Jolla decision there are like 3 licensing/patent/etc. reasons behind the “why not”.
I’m still waiting for the other half of my Jolla Tablet refund. Would still have preferred to have a Jolla Tablet.
Absolutely loved my N900 and N9, was saddened the day I switched to an Android device due to the signs of Nokia being ran over by MS. Been stuck with the Samsung Note line since, and now have a potential fire hazard I carry with me. That’s me, I like to live on the edge!
That’s okay, my alternate OS time these days are filled with tweaking things on my Atari Falcon with MiNT!
I am wondering if it will be possible to change Android for Sailfish on the Lenovo Yoga Book…
I used my Jolla tablet for exactly 5 minutes before putting it back in the box. It’s in a closet somewhere now.
Send it to me!
Seriously… do you need to belong to some secret cult to be able to buy one of these?
I think so, yes. I ordered the tablet, but like everyone else, I expected I’d have to ask for a refund, but I didn’t get a definitive notice or anything about it. Months after the talk had died down, I got an unlabelled packaged at the door, and I had no idea what it was. I didn’t get an email notification, no shipment notification, nothing.
Imagine my surprise when I got one of the only few hundred tablets, while everyone else is still (still, to this day!) waiting for their refund.
So yeah, I guess I’m in a cult now? In a cult of crushed and mismanaged hopes and dreams?
Edited 2016-09-12 10:07 UTC
Review please.
There’s nothing to review.
They appear to be trying to generate revenue by licencing the OS to 3rd party hardware manufacturers, which means at some point you might be able to buy a Sailfish-running phone or even tablet. But supporting existing hardware, even if it isn’t on sale any more, is a very good thing…