Jolla Announces First Meego Phone Available By End 2013 152
x_IamSpartacus_x writes "Jolla, the Finnish company that continued Nokia's work on the MeeGo mobile platform, announced details of its first smartphone on Monday. Availability for the Jolla device is expected by year end and can be pre-ordered now; the phone will be priced at no more than €399 (US $512.26). The Jolla hardware looks similar to that of Nokia's Lumia, with a clean, button-less front face that houses the 4.5-inch touchcscreen. The phone will use a dual-core processor and support 4G LTE in some regions. Internal storage tops out at 16 GB, but can be expanded via microSD card. The phone also includes an 8 megapixel rear camera with auto focus. The phone is also 'Android app compliant' which, in a move similar to that of BlackBerry, can help with available apps at launch."
looking forward to it (Score:5, Insightful)
As a developer, I'd find an alternative to Java/Dalvik and Objective-C/iOS pretty appealing.
Re:sweet (Score:4, Insightful)
Hopefully app acl list will be USER defined instead of app defined.
How retarded is it for an app to blackmail you for Contact list/messages and phone calls just so you can play a game? How come its the app that decides and has the upper hand instead of the user? How come App can blackmail me and I cant simply REFUSE to give it data?
I want to be able to define ACLs per application. I dont give a shit what app wants, it can eat a duck for all I care. Phone status? sure, feed it fake USER DEFINED status. I dont need a game to know that I have GPS enabled. You want GPS data? Sure, let me feed N38 53.86205 W77 2.19162.
Its my phone damnit!
Re: sweet (Score:2, Insightful)
That is not Android doing it wrong, but the application doing it wrong. There are events you can implement to solve this problem. And yes it is ironically the stock browser that fails to handle this situation. Opera Mini does this just fine, navigate somewhere and reboot the phone. Restart Opera and you will be where you left.