Hi HMD, I have a fun idea inspired by the suggestion to port Sailfish to the new Nokias which would show HMD engaging with the community and promoting the new Nokia phones as the spiritual successors to the Google Nexus phones.
Hi HMD,
I have a fun idea inspired by the suggestion to port Sailfish to the new Nokias which would show HMD engaging with the community and promoting the new Nokia phones as the spiritual successors to the Google Nexus phones.
HMD/Nokia could seed a few projects to port other open-source OSes to the new Nokia phones.
HMD could even make it a bit like a competition, for example provide free phones to the first team to port one of the following OSes to an HMD/Nokia phones:
and just for fun since I think old Nokia fans may like this:
Or, instead of it being a race, HMD could set a points system; each feature implemented would be worth some points, and the team that gets the most points (according to HMD judges) would win. All other teams would get Nokia goodie bags.
It would probably be better to exclude OSes that are nothing more than "custom Android ROMs" like LineageOS. HMD could set requirements about which parts of the AOSP stack could be used and which couldn't.
I think this would be fun, and I'm sure you'd get loads of interest from the XDA community, lots of others too, and it would help promote your phones in those circles and also help HMD/Nokia learn more about what those people want, AND help find bugs with your software/hardware
I hope this idea sparks a few of your own and inspires HMD and Nokia to think beyond the "pure Android" experience.
Cheers
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I should add that HMD would need to make the binary blobs for drivers etc AND their APIS available to the competitors under a suitable licence. I know this may be considered risky from an IP point of view, however these communities are quite capable of extracting the binary blobs anyway. The only thing they really lack is the APIs. If HMD don't want to provide the APIs then this will make the competition harder but not impossible.
I wish Stephen elop was never have been made that burning platform speech, we could have not only 3 but up to 5 or 6 alternative platforms; Apple, Android, windows phone, meego, symbian, and meltemi.
Tizen is actually just the contuinity of moblin part of meego. İts not good option;its filled with back doors and flaws.
Most of the other options above are a part of the Android family however qt platform is more popular than Android, sure we didn't get any new qt based mobile product soccer 2012 however that platform is still alive, VERY alive.
As a fan of symbian and meego I'd prefer a new meego version over any of they current platforms.
I'm getting a feeling of you actually don't like the pure Android passion of hmd global.
Yeah, GSIs are meant to be the base AOSP builds without bells and whistles that the manufacturer adds or customises. XDA thread for Nokia 7 Plus has 3 or 4 GSI builds, some are said to be working with more than one Nokia phone.
I haven't tried any because my phone's bootloader is unlocked, waiting for official support for it.
I can't try now anyway because Nokia 7 Plus is my daily driver now, it's bit risky to try something on your daily driver.
> Does anyone know of an Android custom ROM for any HMD Nokia phone ?
This is not Android, but there is basic port of postmarketOS (Linux) for Nokia 1:
Kernel source code was missing symlinks, but other than that compiled without applying many patches. Some small touch ups were needed on defconfig file, but that is to be expected when using the source code to build regular Linux instead of Android.
As for alternative OSes for smartphones, have you heard about Maemo Leste? It requires mainlined kernel though.
For this to happen they first need to allow bootloader unlocking. And till now HMD has shown no interest in this area. If they had, SFOS would have already been ported by now. Also, some members of SFOS community do not even care about this new Nokia. They laugh at it. Sad reality
EDIT: I got so triggered about bootloader unlock policy that i forgot to appreciate your idea. This is a really nice plan and competition will give better end reaults. I hope that day comes in 2020.😃
Enough of this bad side of 2020. We need good news. 😅
Atleast let them provide BOOTLOADER UNLOCK and Recovery tool first
Sarvikas be like-
Sarvikas might get a hert attack. His plan of keeping Nokia phones Pure,Secure and Up to date would be compromised.
Those sound amazing! (I'm late, I know) Too bad HMD is still sticking with their totalitarian bootloader policy after all these years. Developer interest in Nokia is fading fast as time goes by. Shame.
Hi all,
Thanks for reminding me about this! I made this suggestions in the days before Android One and before I realised that HMD was so in love with beige Android.
More optimistic times back then 😉
Cheers 🙂
First ask those ediots to unlock bootloader.
https://www.nokia.com/phones/en_int/bootloader