Originally Posted by nodevel

Wait, there is also a 64GB version? I was under the impression that all Taobao tablets were 32GB only. That might be a game changer, since it might determine which version will be sent out with SailfishOS next month (I thought it would be a part of the same batch that is on Taobao right not).

I would wait how successful the guy on Twitter is with his piece and if it is flashable, I'd go for it. Until then, I'd stick to Stskeeps's advice

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I very much disagree. I have used Android quite extensively on both tablet and phone (more on the tablet, actually) and while it's not great on the phone, I can still understand the appeal there. On the tablet, it's a whole other story - it's the worst tablet OS I've ever seen. Maybe it is acceptable for people who have never used any other tablet OS, but for anyone who has tried an iPad or webOS 3.0 (and I'm sure SailfishOS, BB Playbook and Windows would be similar in that sense from what I've seen), Android was - and still is unless they changed something radically over the last year - pretty much unusable as a tablet OS.

Trust me, I gave it a shot every few days, but it was too frustrating to use.

Originally Posted by pichlo

There is more than one definition of "better". For someone who absolutely has to use a feature or an app only available on a particular OS, that OS may be "better" than any other.

But I assumed mscion's comment was facetious.



Sailfish makes me feel like that quite often. Much as I like it and prefer its UI to others, I rather use my daughter's Android tablet when it really matters, such as for typing this response (absolutely impossible in a Sailfish browser due to the ridiculous lack of copy&paste). Sailfish is nice but still very much experimental.

Originally Posted by aegis

Android 4 though? That's apparently what's on these ex-Jolla tablets.

Originally Posted by mosen

New development for us to discuss!
There is @psjuma on twitter asking about install attempt SFOS on taobao tablet and has statet:
"Taobao claimed that you could get Sailfish OS installed at 30$ extra payment - they would ship the tablet to Finland for that before delivering it to you".
What?
Now its 50/50. Either the Taobao sellers or Jolla are talking BS.
http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1so8l1g

Originally Posted by billranton

There's a lot more to this than we were told in the last blog post. I don't believe that the components to make the tablet are no longer available - they were taking pre-orders just last autumn as they prepared to go into full production. We're also told that the factory have only made 540 more, when we see thousands on taobao, but they've been reflashed with (a full hw adaptation of) android, but can be reflashed back to sailfish via finland?

I think the manufacturer were holding the tablets to ransom, and that's why the resolution took so long after Jolla got more cash. They wanted even more money to flash them back to SFOS, and Jolla can't afford it. Now they realise that we really would rather have Sailfish, they're trying to screw us too. The mechanism they offer suggests that Jolla were prepared to reflash the tablets they'd already crapped on, because they assume they'll do it now.

All these accusations of scams towards Jolla, and it's the factory that's been scamming all along. They're scum, looking to take advantage of desperate people. If no-one showed interest in the taobao tablets, they'd probably be on their way to Jolla already.

Originally Posted by billranton

There's a lot more to this than we were told in the last blog post. I don't believe that the components to make the tablet are no longer available - .

Originally Posted by tommo

So jolla are still telling lies, and you are calling the Chinese scum??!