New: Jolla/Sailfish in Latin America
 

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https://jolla.com/wp-content/uploads...NAL.pdf?x39789

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LOL. Latin America got special needs when it comes to OSes :D they lost me right there.

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Have you been there?
Actually they have special needs as independence is one of the key driving national concern and pride. Jala is the only relevant SW company in bolivia and they are on a mission to make "know how" available to their fellow citizens.
You could investigate into the matter but yeah, nothing easier than to drop a "meh" comment.

Also and most importantly it brings whole new opportunitys for my sister-in-law from La Paz to bring different christmas presents than traditional knittings and panpipes when she comes to visit :D

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not in in Bolivia. no. but in Latin America. thats is not relevant. How does bolivia requrument for indipendent OS differ compared to other countries?

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I do not know about other countries in detail.
Latin America is complicated but full of opportunities for honest and longterm business. I expect some real educational part of the Beta Program taking place to "grow" local devs in the long run. For market success, i do not have a slight idea if they can play the patriot trumpet to win. But phones are monstly bought used as the price point is 100 or 200$ max for the most people. Lets see if they hit that price range.

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There will be 3 devices available in 3 stores in Cochabamba, La Paz and Santa Cruz :
Accione USD149 witrh 2GB/16GB/720p
AccioneP USD249 with 3GB/32GB/1080p
and an unspecified special edition for USD299

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Will these include Alien Dalvik?

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Interesting!

The first one could match pretty well to the Jolla C/Aquafish/Inoi reference design.

As for the second one - well, that's basically matching an Xperia X spec wise which is pretty weird, I don't really see them actually selling flashed Xperias (would likely have to be second hand/refurbished to hit the price point) just in this market & it might not fit the independent part very well. :) So likely another, more beefy reference design.

As for the special edition - no idea.

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Would make sense to have a ref design close to the Xperia X... This way, the whole work on the Xperia port would also serve a commercial purpose.

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I understood special edition was nothing but the AccioneP with the BassOne Headphones included (basciallly).

It's been fun to watch the conference, some of the most interesting points to fight against google & apple status quo are the prices they offer (repairs etc). The thing that after 12 months of use you can pay with the old accione phone to get a new one... The old acciones will be reaconditioned (by the same Jala) and sold with 6 months garantee with cheaper price.

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Today a video has been put up in the Youtube by Accion / Jala that looks like a launch event:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGiw...re=youtu.be&a=

Also a web site http://accione.com/#/es/home is up with a professional appearance.

Looks like Sailfish is really picking up :)

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Disclaimer: my Spanish isn't native, so I may be getting some of this wrong.

It doesn't look like a launch to me, I think that is still in the future (although maybe not far off). Their web page doesn't mention availability, just an invitation to subscribe to their newsletter. He is making a big deal about the phone being designed by Latin Americans for Latin Americans, and running an OS that is under their control. A couple of other points:

He describes a trade-in scheme where they will recondition and resell the traded-in phones. Their control over the whole manufacturing process makes this possible.

He compares their music offering (BaseOne) to Apple's, saying that music is really important to Latin Americans and BaseOne will reflect this. It will be the same quality as Apple's.

I'll leave a more detailed English summary to someone whose Spanish is better than mine. ;)

I have read some of his other publicity material, and I have to admire the guy's commitment. I don't think that he will ditch SFOS if the going gets tough.

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Since the 13th the website got nicer, that's right (I'm targeting accione rather than Xperia) As far as I know, they are already selling the basic model (in their shops), and next month they start selling Accione P. (all infos from their FB account).
They plan to sell out of bolivia too, would like to know the timing. I could just write them and ask how long wil it take to get it in europe. Let's see, we'll always have Ebay if anything else goes wrong.

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Just noticed that the jollareview has good description of Jala's plans and the devices. They inform that the Accione phone runs on android, but on three Jala shops in three towns in Bolivia on can choose Sailfish and an early adopter.

https://reviewjolla.blogspot.fi/p/devices.html#jala

Let us hope Jala manages to do well all three different things: new devices, Sailfish development for Latin America and music streaming service.

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hopefully they get the fingerprint working :D

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Professional unboxing video by Jala has been published
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9a8jnUzrdjc

Did not see any mention of the operating system, Sailfish appears in the leaflet.

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My sister in law just went to the la paz store to pick up an accione p for me.
It looks like they are solely available running android at the moment. The sailfish release is planned for march as per info from the shop.
Don't know if i can then reflash my now android accione p, but i will see.