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Last edit: 03. Mar. 2024, 23:04h
Sailfish OS: Rumors about Sailfish OS 4.6 and new smartphones
FOSDEM took place in Brussels and there were some very interesting rumors about new versions and new supported devices, which I would like to talk about in this video. And if you’d like to answer a few questions from Jolla to help them understand what their customers want to see in the future, please let them know here (note: this is done with Microsoft Forms): Survey
Last edit: 10. Sep. 2023, 17:01h
3d Pressure from keyboard supports: The one that keeps breaking or getting lost...
Who doesn’t know them: Those little supports on keyboards that make the keyboard stand up and thus improve the typing feel. A tiny part of half a cent, which destroys the whole feeling as soon as it breaks, but of course only accounts for a fraction of the actual device. And, of course, the gizmos have to be slightly different for virtually all keyboards. But this is where a 3d printer helps tremendously: I’ve now printed several different ...
Last edit: 06. Aug. 2023, 16:15h
Sailfish OS: Situations
The Situations app is a very helpful companion for SFOS users. It lets the user respond to different situations with automatic actions. You leave the house? Maybe you want to switch on mobile data instead of WLAN? One is in a meeting? Now all indications should be switched to mute? Situations can do it for you. How this basically works can be seen in this video:
Last edit: 09. Jul. 2023, 13:35h
Sailfish OS: Shake Torch
An app that sounds really good then showed me after a few days that it also has its downsides. It’s about Shake Torch. This is a Sailfish OS app that turns on the camera light when you shake the phone. This works not bad at all (you can see it well in this video here): Only... it works "always". So, for example, even if you are in a hurry and have the phone in your pocket, or you walk with the smartphone in hand and PureMaps / the navigator ...
Last edit: 03. Jun. 2023, 19:59h
Sailfish OS: How to use all 4 cameras of the Sony Xperia 10 III
Users of SailfishOS on the Sony Xperia 10 III have surely already noticed it and at least wondered or even got annoyed that they can only use one of the 3 cameras on the back of the smartphone and the selfie camera on the other side. This is probably due to a limitation of the access options via Sony’s driver, which only allows two different camera stacks. BUT, there is now a workaround for this, which you can activate and deactivate with ...
Last edit: 14. Mar. 2023, 00:52h