Whats the best modern mobile OS and why?
Sailfish because it's already using a next-gen filesystem, init system, display server and design language.
>>47689511
>'and that's why you want this phone dad'
>'I HAVE NO SON'
>>47689476
imo BB10, lack of apps aside,
>Gesture base UI perfected
>The Hub
>Not a resource hog
>Battery efficient (Even on small battery devices like the Z10 I got 18hrs of medium use with a 1800Mah battery)
>The Hub
>Secure
>The Hub is fucking amazing.
Cons:
>Lack of many apps that make it onto other platforms (the apps we do have are really really good though I must say)
>Lack of animations that make iOS/WP/Sailfish fun to use (Android's animations are just time wasting)
Android because marketshare means more apps and more support
Sailfish because muh Freedoms + Design + GNU/Linux hackable
>>47689476
Which are the top-right and bottom-left?
>>47689654
I remember reading a while ago that one of the new(at that time) BB firmware updates allowed for installation of android apps without needing to convert the apks which should mean that almost all the android apps would work on it.
Nothing, they all suck.
I'd go for bbos as >>47689654 anon said
It's secure, it's not flashy, doesn't look childish.
Has a huge drawback of not having apps at all which it compensates by android compatibilty layer which works but works not like you'd want it to work so it hardly counts/
That being said i use a mobile banking app written for android on my bb and i haven't noticed any issues.
What i like about bb are those bult in social media apps like twitter and facebook. They lack few functionalities which is sometimes aggravating and development of them seems slow (like eveything with bb right now) but i like the fact that they fucking work and fb while running uses 16MB of ram and not fucking 120.
also - hub
all notifications in one place and the ability to work right inside that place. It's mint to the point where i wonder why noone else copied it from BB
pic related
>>47689882
Sailfish and Tizen.
ubuntu touch is pretty.
I need to plug it once every 2 or 3 days only.
Sadly there isn't a lot of apps. And QML syntax is a little crap.
>>47690258
I thought Tizen was kill years ago.
>>47689511
>>47689560
>'and that's why you want this phone dad'
>>47690034
While I prefer Sailfish, BlackBerry is definitely more advanced because it's based on a RTOS micro-kernel.
>>47690034
>>47690386
>blackberry
>2015
Do you still have AOL as well?
>>47689560
this. Same thing happened to my dad when we were choosing him a tablet, and he ended up with an iPad. He is happy and so are we.
>>47690692
well memed my friend,
Isn't sailfish just some glorified android skin?
>>47690758
hardly. the main difference is that sailfish doesn't run in a java virtual machine like android does.
Sailfish
>>47690692
No I actually use a Jolla phone, I just think the BlackBerry OS is really well made.
Can jolla phones be used in murika?
>>47689476
iOS
It's pretty like me
>>47689476
Certainly none of those pictured.
>>47691051
Probably, on GSM networks.
I don't know why you would want to, but...
Windows Phone.
Microsoft is r̶u̶i̶n̶i̶n̶g̶ destroying it though.
>>47691198
Why not?
>>47691472
Do companies change layouts and shit just for the sake of changing it? Like even if the design is perfect they'll still change it for the better or worse for no apparent reason. I guess they just get payed for pointless updates.
Windows Phone
I can't hear anyone in this thread over the sound of Windows Phone 8.1, soon Windows 10 for phones.
>>47691580
Wow it must suck not being able to turn off the volume.
>>47691571
This
>>47691569
They're changing it because of bullshit made up things like having to have the same design across desktop and mobile. I'm just sad because I'm on a 2 year contract and Microsoft is most likely too proud to toss the shitty inconsistent ball of "design" a.k.a MDL2 in the garbage and return to Metro that has been praised over and over again for its usability and intuitiveness on mobile.
>>47689678
> Android because marketshare means more apps and more support
but that's fucking wrong. why does iOS have more apps and better apps?
fallacy of marketshare thinking lies in the fact that majority of that Android's marketshare are shit-tier phones. Less that <20% of phones can run majority of the apps in Play Store.
>>47691679
bollocks ha ha
iOS doesn't have more or better apps, take the dick out your ass.
>>47689476
>Sailfish
>Äijänpäivänjärvi SW Update
>>47691679
As of January, there are now more applications in the Google Play Store than there are in the Apple App Store. Further, there exist a number of quality applications on Android that are not available in the Play Store but which may nonetheless be run on numerous Android devices without needing to exploit a security vulnerability on the device.
And the lack of devices capable of running modern applications is the fault of hardware manufacturers, not the OS.
>>47691051
It works fine. Only issue is being stuck with 2g data. I'm always connected to WIFI so I never notice.
>>47691198
>>47691477
I'm curious of this as well. I've been looking into getting a new phone lately and the Jolla was high on my list until I saw it couldn't be purchased in America.
>>47692386
It doesn't support the frequencies used in America for 3g and lte.
>>47692386
Can easily be purchased on Ebay. the one I got was with overnight shipping from India.
But the frequencies don't support 3g in the US
>>47692242
yeah, because Apple removes garbage and other junk. google accepts it all because they think numbers matter.
and for every good app that's available on android and not on ios, there are dozen apps that are on ios and not on android.
android fucking sucks for developers so they're not spending time on it.
>>47692468
>>47692448
Does GPS work over 2g, or is that 3g only? GPS is a rather important feature of a phone for me, but when I'm not in the car I'm usually going to have wifi.
![FirefoxOS_for_press_release[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/R3eAo9J.jpg "FirefoxOS_for_press_release[1].png")
What about firefox OS?
>>47692780
GPS is its own separate thing, its provided for free by the kind US government.
>>47692805
That'd be fine then. Thanks.
>>47692787
Isn't FFOS pretty much just ChromeOS for smartphone?
Is there some OS that has a lightweight keyboard? I can't tell if it is the scheduler, the runtime or what but android takes forever to load the keyboard. It is a lot worse on slow CPU's but even the fast ones have a large delay every time you open a menu or the search...
And people who claim to never notice this are either lying or haven't used android...
>>47689511
The only /g/ recommended mobile OS. The rest are for plebs and normies
>>47691679
hahahahaha, iOS is a sinking platform
>>47692827
>Isn't FFOS pretty much just ChromeOS for smartphone?
Kinda. It's supposed to fast and snappy but also have all the apps you need, but it's still in a pretty early development stage.
>>47692780
GPS is a proprietary format and uses it's own frequencies for operation; it has nothing to do with any cellular technology directly.
What you want to focus on is A-GPS (Assisted GPS) which uses cellular tower info (provided by the carriers) that works in conjunction with the GPS hardware in your smartphone to get a location much faster since cell towers are terrestrial (read: on the surface of the planet) compared to the GPS satellites roughly 23K miles in orbit.
With A-GPS working correctly you can get and maintain a solid location fix without much hassles. There are other assisted forms of GPS as well (using Wi-Fi hotspot data in a similar manner).
Smartphones today can do pure hardware GPS but they do tend to work better overall with A-GPS (GPS + cellular location data).
>>47689476
>Ubuntu
>Seagate
>>47692780
Does a car stereo only come with gasoline or diesel vehicles?
>>47690292
Rizen is kill for non-autists, so yes
>>47693121
Is sailfish on any other phone than jolla tho?
>>47693444
It's in alpha on the OnePlus One
>>47693444
>>47693473
http://www.thejollablog.com/sailfish-os-oneplus-one-available/
>>47693444
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailfish_OS#Devices_running_Sailfish_OS
yes
>>47693174
Since when did Windows Phone dominate the market?
>>47693556
windows > lagdroid
>>47693684
No seriously, what's with the graph I replied to?
>>47693556
Since mid 2012, but I think its because of their "all phone and desktops will get windows 10 free" announcement. Or at least that's why I want to get one, just for shits and giggles.
>>47693958
I don't know but windows phone is around 3-4% market share, while android has over 50%.
