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A mini-guide for an alternative Black Friday week.

18/11/2023

The week of Black Friday (and then Cyber Monday) has already arrived and the main Tech shops and technology brands are revealing their offers. But what happens looking phones compatible with alternative/privacy focused/security hardened mobile OS? Here’s a short list…

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A late 2023 update: dealing with more uncertainty

26/10/2023

In this October 2023, while I was writing a news to publish this month, another crisis worries the whole world: namely the crisis in the Middle East that began with the terrorist attacks by Hamas on 7 October, followed by…

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Middle of 2023: is the rise of Volla and AI?

09/06/2023

Winter 2022 was characterized by the arrival of AI to the general public, or rather AI-based help tools from platforms such as openAI and google Bard. Other more specific tools have arrived such as for example Midjourney. But in the…

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End of #Techtember: 2 new alternative phones added to the J-D Store

29/09/2022

#Techtember is already over and it’s time for an update: the J-D Store has been prepared for the winter season, with the arrival of 2 new high-end alternative phones, the Volla Phone 22 and the Google Pixel 6a. Here they…

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J-D Store: a mid-2022 update

08/06/2022

Weeks have passed and this strange 2022 is also halfway through: the two critical issues are still an increasingly “galloping inflation”, and the question of the war in Ukraine. The two problems chase each other and feed themselves, inflation and…

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Sailfish OS Vanha Rauma was released

07/04/2022

A new Sailfish OS release is out: so named because it’s dedicated to a city in the southwest of Finland: Vanha Rauma, which “is a living monument to the enchanting style of old Nordic wooden construction (…) a beautiful examples of…

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The effects of the war in Ukraine on Jolla, a summary

03/03/2022

The events: Putin invades Ukraine Let’s start with the breaking news: the Russian army started an offensive in Ukrainian territory, therefore not only in the disputed territories of Donbass and Crimea. Within days the offensive from Belarus reached Kiev, putting…

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Beginning of 2022

01/01/2022

2022 is here and it’s starting (badly) under the sign of tech inflation and the risks associated with a possible escalation between Russia and NATO. The covid pandemic has already become a background issue… Let’s look at them and how…

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J-D video-tutorial #2: the Other native stores: Openrepos and Storeman app

04/01/2021

Many new Sailfish OS users are unaware of the existence of another source of native apps: the portal OpenRepos.net and its app version: Storeman. For various reasons, over the years this alternative store has grown better and today hosts the…

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The 2020 J-D analytics report

31/12/2020

2020 has finally come to an end, and it’s time for a new year-end analytics report! Here are some data that refer to this domain, jolla-devices.com but which can be used to get an idea of how it is composed,…

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J-D autumn bulletin: JP1 retirement and more

07/12/2020

Autumn has passed quickly without big announcements in the Jolla house (for now), Covid is back in Europe but I have decided that it will not be mentioned. A review of what happened, in Tweets: The Jolla Phone retires After…

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Discover Instagraph, the IG client for Ubuntu touch, based on Prostogram!

23/11/2020

The Instagraph application for Ubuntu Touch is again able to work with Instagram, the famous social media where you can publish Images and Stories. Despite being an unofficial client, the app manages to work in all the fundamental functions of…

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J-D video-tutorial #1: Installing Android Support, Predictive and Aptoide on licensed devices

13/11/2020

I found that a good chunk of site users, and even customers, don’t know about the YT channel. So here is the first video tutorial, which exemplifies the installation of Android Support, Aptoide store (green standard version) and the Predictive…

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J-D bulletin Ferragosto edition

16/08/2020

It’s mid-August! This particular summer has flown by, and a new tech “high season” is upon us. Meanwhile, let’s see what happened from June to today, in this selection of tweets.   To do list: support for two cameras The…

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Xperia 10 II and Sony iterative design.

16/06/2020

One of the odd thing on Android phones is that the families of smartphones are redesigned almost completely every year, giving the feeling that on a stylistic level the manufacturers do not have a clear vision, but are betting on…

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Awakening after the crisis – J-D bulletin #fase3

10/06/2020

We’re in mid-June and the time is ripe for a new bulletin! Usually May and especially June are “hot” months for Sailfish OS, before the quiet summer. Furthermore, the Covid-19 epidemic seems to be ended and Europe is getting ready…

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Phase 2 bulletin and the Hamletic doubt: to tracing or not to tracing?

01/05/2020

Here is the time for another bulletin. I called it “phase 2” because Europe is now talking about the next phase after the covid-19 outbreak last month. Now tracking contacts is the issue! Also, Jolla dropped a new update this…

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J-D Q1 bulletin / Special edition on Covid

30/03/2020

As you may have heard lately, coronavirus is raging around, now officially classified as a pandemic. This issue of the J-D bulletin cannot ignore this problem, and will also deal with this in the first part. Sources on Covid-19 There…

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J-D Store at the time of Coronavirus

06/03/2020

As you heard from media, Coronavirus is raging throughout the world, and also in Europe and Italy. J-D Headquarter is right located in Lombardy, one of the two region under yellow area. A number of measures were taken by Italy to…

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The early 2020 J-D bulletin: privacy, smartwatches and a question

27/02/2020

On Privacy Privacy is an important issue today, after all the scandals related to Facebook and the marketing of personal data by social media. Here is a dedicated fixed parenthesis: The first effects of Brexit: Just got my @GoogleUK notification…

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