On Fri, 26 Aug 2016 14:18:59 +0100 Chris Green cl@isbd.net wrote:
On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 02:07:28PM +0100, Chris Walker wrote:
And if you want to buy one, you can do so on ebay - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Intex-Aqua-Fish-Unlocked-Dual-Sim-5inch-1-3Ghz-16G...
I have to say the advertising in the above eBay page makes me wonder if it's going to be much different from Android!
Don't judge the book by the cover ;-)
I can assure you that Sailfish is nothing like Android although you can run Android apps on the phone is you insist. I have 45 apps (including the pre-installed stuff) on my phone with an additional 20 Google Apps (I ought to delete some of them as I don't use them). These are things that are never going to be available for Sailfish such as those from banks and credit card companies, plus the essential one - the CAMRA Good Beer Guide ;-)
The Google Barclaycard app tells me that I can't use their app as my phone is 'rooted' and redirects me to their mobile site. I suspect their code checks for something weird as although my phone has a developer mode available, it isn't run like that in the same way you wouldn't log on to a machine as root.
I see that the Intex phone has one function available to it that my own phone doesn't and that is an FM radio. I don't use one but my wife always likes to have an FM radio available on a phone.