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2016-09-05
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2016-09-05
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2016-09-05
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I'm trying not to be the management type that stops an engineer or accountant in their tracks when they throw up reasons why something can't be done but so far these all sound like solvable problems to me.
Sure, we could pick a Sony and then do a kick *** port to that, and I for one would be happy, but the idea is to build a relationship with an ODM.
1) Start with an almost off the shelf design they have that can be a base port.
2) sell n hundred / thousand
3) do the niche versions with keyboards / huge batteries / big screens / small screens / IR ports / fins
Which brings me back to the first post. How hard would that be?
Surely we could come up with a list of components that would be the least trouble to port to?
eg. CPU: Snapdragon 615, Camera Sensor: Sony IMX300... etc
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2016-09-05
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@ Czech Republic
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The newer series stuff is all 64bit ARM which is currently problematic for sailfish porting, but work is being done to get that sorted though so it might be worth a risk.
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2016-09-05
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I think you're over thinking this chenluangchen. There are ODMs that say there'll do all of that except for the Sailfish part of course.
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2016-09-06
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@ Hamburg
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#68
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We need ... (to) bring in the lesser savvy to avoid being marginalized.
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2016-09-06
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Can't all the current 64-bit ARM CPUs still run armv7 32-bit code just fine in backward compatibility mode ? IIRC even the RPi3 still runs 32-bit code on it's 64-bit ARM CPU.
So while it indeed is prudent to aim for running 64-bit Sailfish OS natively, it should be fine for the time being due to the backwards compatibility mode & IMHO should not preclude 64-bit ARM CPUs from consideration.
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2016-09-06
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The problem of starting from an already existing hardware (sorry, didn't remember who wrote this) is you can't find a small phone in the Android world (same for WP, only Apple provides such a small device). Even the Sony X Compact are too wide.
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