Originally Posted by Fuzzillogic

I reckon the same applies here. Swapping out the OS, also given that is an explicit option for these devices, should have no influence on the warranty on the hardware. You might lose factory warranty, but in EU law, the shop were you bought it is responsible for warranty anyway.

Originally Posted by juiceme

Exactly, that is called the European Product Liability Act and it is more thorough than any manufacturer warranties.

In fact I think most cases fall down to that even when people mistakenly think they were covered by warranty.

Originally Posted by rinigus

Its also a 64-bit device. I don't know what's the current status of 64-bit devices now among ported devices, but getting SFOS ported to this architecture is a major success and we should not underestimate it. When done, it should open many current devices for all of us through the ports.

I do wonder if the port for Xperia X would be made available as a community port image / sources as well. That would allow for curious user to test SFOS before getting full version of it. If not, porters would probably know or would get help to get SFOS running on X Compact and other variants.

Originally Posted by rinigus

As for the pure ports, if you don't need Android stack, the current main problem is the absence of text prediction (jolla-xt9 is proprietary). So, would be great to get someone to work on it and get open-source solution for text predictions. Port from Ubuntu Touch, for example?

Originally Posted by Feathers McGraw

Check out OKboard if you haven't already - continuous input /predictive keyboard for Sailfish that is fully open. I can't remember whether it does predictions for normal typing (I think it currently uses xt9 for that) but it clearly could, because it does its own predictions for continuous input. That's something open versions of Android are missing BTW - if you want CI on Android you have to use something like Swype or Swiftkey.

Originally Posted by Zeta

May I ask where have you seen it is from a chinese company ?
Alien Dalvik has always been presented here as a product of Myriad, which seems to be a french/swiss company: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myriad_Group

I'm not sure, if that was true, that Jolla could afford maintaining two OS's at a time : Sailfish on one hand, and the Android runtime on the other hand.

Originally Posted by taixzo

I was working on a keyboard a while back; I should dust off that code and see what can be done with it.

I've been testing OKboard on Jolla and on OPX (third-party port without xt9). On the OPX it's pretty terrible; not just for the lack of predictions in normal typing, but because it tries to use xt9's predictions bar for its own predictions when swiping, meaning that without xt9 there are no predictions whatsoever. And no ability to correct a word; you have to swipe and hope you nailed it.

Originally Posted by taixzo

I've been testing OKboard on Jolla and on OPX (third-party port without xt9). On the OPX it's pretty terrible; not just for the lack of predictions in normal typing, but because it tries to use xt9's predictions bar for its own predictions when swiping, meaning that without xt9 there are no predictions whatsoever. And no ability to correct a word; you have to swipe and hope you nailed it.