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I daily drived the original Jolla Phone. However since I realized that it was even more proprietary (the core apps + UI toolkit Silica is proprietary) than a simple AOSP Android ROM, I decided that my next phone would be a regular Android phone again.
Now I'm dual-booting both postmarketOS and CalyxOS (which is an Android ROM) oh my SHIFT6mq and I have no reason to ever go back to SailfishOS, even though I liked the experience at the time.
I suppose you dual boot them because postmarketOS isn't usable as a daily driver right ?
I liked Sailfish UI a lot, and the fact it was a "standard" Linux with coreutils, git, rsync, etc... by default was the main reason I switched to it. But yeah, I've been quite deceived by their recent "updates". I now have an Xperia 10 III, but there doesn't seem to be much custom ROMs that support it unfortunately (which is also why sailfish support isn't great anyway).
I kind of wish I had played with ROMs and stuff earlier. I still like the idea, but I don't use it because I use mobile payments so much that it would be a PITA not to have that working.
I was first on Nokia n500 than Sony phone (I don't remember witch model) and Sony 10. It's was really good OS but its lack of app and official app is still the same. And I must use a android apps... I miss a concept and idea, but for normal life / business I need up date apps , and communication with others... Graphene os without Google is good, no perfect but it's better solution for my work. Maybe in future will be perfect Linux phone...but it's still not. Sailfish OS...they was a really top chances but it's didn't developed apps... it's was good idea, but it's not enough, Jolla team was missed chances, I think so it's so late now.
Never did use it.
Thanks for sharing your experience ;)
Not using SFOS anymore, but I had a real good time with my Xperia XA2 compared to the 10 Mark II because of issues with the aarch64 platform.
One thing that was WAY below Android was the camera quality. A lot of the work happens on a software level that is unpolished on SFOS. GPS was having constant issues (lagging sometimes 30s to 1 minute behind real position) and crashes, and so on...
I got rid of it to come back to stock Android and my XA2 is also running android now as I gave it to my daughter.
But I'm quite interested about the answers you will get.
My experience with the XA2+ was pretty great, and the phone camera wasn't that bad for my use case. I truly enjoyed the experience and wanted the same with the 10 III, but it seems worse than with the XA2