Jelly Star – The Smallest Android 13 Smartphone

Re:Jelly Star – The Smallest Android 13 Smartphone by ncruces on Saturday July 13, 2024 @08:08PM (#40957851)

Honestly, I don't care about feature upgrades in a device like this, which, invariably, degrade experience, rather than improve it.

I would much rather the industry moved to focus on security upgrades.

Keep the device reasonably updated while it's on sale (either current or previous feature version max), then promise extended support for N years, where any critical security issues are patched, and that's all.

I especially don't need the latest OS features, when 95% of the value is from apps that can be upgraded independently from the OS.

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Re:Jelly Star – The Smallest Android 13 Smartphone by nextaccountic on Saturday July 13, 2024 @08:34PM (#40957975)

I want open source OSes, giving the possibility of hobbyist communities that upgrade on their own

current open source android roms will disable many features because they are proprietary. even roms that include proprietary code, like lineageos, will disable many features anyway because they can't make it work while updating the android version

open source should be mandatory. let the rest up to the users (if there is a strong enough community)

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Re:Jelly Star – The Smallest Android 13 Smartphone by exe34 on Sunday July 14, 2024 @05:48AM (#40959929)

or comply with the gpl and release the kernel sources so that it can be supported by lineageos et al.

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