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President Barack Obama’s repeated postponement of deadlines in the rollout of his health-care overhaul has sparked accusations from Republicans that he’s straying into dangerous territory by rewriting the law. But he’s not the first president to follow his own timetable instead of the one passed by Congress, reports Bloomberg News’ Mike Dorning. Deadlines set in […]
If you’ve ever wanted a smartphone that could run both Android and Firefox OS, you’re in luck. Geeksphone is now accepting orders for the Revolution, the first commercial handset to do just that.
Geeksphone is a Spanish startup best known for the Keon and Peak, a pair of low-end, developer-focused Firefox OS smartphones that launched ahead of commercial handsets by ZTE and Alcatel.
The Revolution replaces the Peak+, another Firefox OS handset that Geeksphone was building, with a 4.7-inch IPS qHD display, a dual-core 1.6GHz Intel Atom processor, 1GB of RAM and 4GB of onboard storage, backed up by a microSD card slot for up to 32GB of extra space.
The device is powered by a 2,000 mAh battery and boasts an 8-megapixel rear-facing camera, alongside a 1.3-megapixel variant on the front. It’s available on the Geeksphone site for €222.31 and worldwide shipping is available.
It’s unclear whether there’s a market for a dual-OS smartphone running both Android and Firefox OS. The Revolution is a unique device though and should appeal to developers, modders and gadget fans who are keen to try Mozilla’s mobile OS on a slightly more powerful handset.
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➤ Geeksphone Revolution (Via GSM Arena)
If you’ve ever wanted a smartphone that could run both Android and Firefox OS, you’re in luck. Geeksphone is now accepting orders for the Revolution, the first commercial handset to do just that.
Geeksphone is a Spanish startup best known for the Keon and Peak, a pair of low-end, developer-focused Firefox OS smartphones that launched ahead of commercial handsets by ZTE and Alcatel.
The Revolution replaces the Peak+, another Firefox OS handset that Geeksphone was building, with a 4.7-inch IPS qHD display, a dual-core 1.6GHz Intel Atom processor, 1GB of RAM and 4GB of onboard storage, backed up by a microSD card slot for up to 32GB of extra space.
The device is powered by a 2,000 mAh battery and boasts an 8-megapixel rear-facing camera, alongside a 1.3-megapixel variant on the front. It’s available on the Geeksphone site for €222.31 and worldwide shipping is available.
It’s unclear whether there’s a market for a dual-OS smartphone running both Android and Firefox OS. The Revolution is a unique device though and should appeal to developers, modders and gadget fans who are keen to try Mozilla’s mobile OS on a slightly more powerful handset.
Read Next: Meet the bold 20-year-old behind Spanish Firefox OS smartphone maker Geeksphone [Video] / Blackphone: A new privacy-focused smartphone from Silent Circle and Geeksphone
➤ Geeksphone Revolution (Via GSM Arena)
We’ve previously noted that Stitcher Radio is one of 8 great apps for listening to podcasts on the move, letting you tap-in to your favorite online radio shows on demand, encompassing tens of thousands of live stations.
And with its latest update for Android, you’ll now be able to download and make any podcast available for offline listening.
While Stitcher for Android already had an offline mode, it only applied to newer episodes – there was no way of going back through the archives of your favorite podcasts and pushing them offline. As you can see from the ‘before and after’ shots below, the options for each episode have changed from ‘Episode Details’ to ‘Add to Listen Later’.
Now, unless a station has specifically implemented limitations on how far you can browse its archives, you can go all the way back in time and add anything to an offline playlist.
Once you’ve added your desired tracks, head to the main menu and open the ‘Listen Later’ folder, which you’ll have to push to offline mode, and your podcasts will start download. Of course, it goes without saying you’ll need to ensure you have adequate space on your device – so don’t go too crazy with the ‘Listen Later’ function.
This is a big move for Stitcher, as it makes it infinitely more appealing to commuters, travelers or anyone who needs offline access to their podcasts.
While the iOS incarnation does have offline mode too, it only lets you browse back a small number of podcasts, not the entire archives.
Finnish startup Jolla, which launched its first smartphone with a new Sailfish mobile operating system last year, announced today that its OS is now ready for global distribution after reaching release 1.0. Sailfish will also soon be available for download on Android devices.
The first batch of Jolla phones landed in Europe with Finnish mobile network operator DNA in late November last year. Availability has been limited, with all devices running a beta version of Sailfish. Since then, Jolla has released three significant software updates. A fourth one is due in early March, after which Sailfish OS will make its way worldwide.
With the software ironed out for commercial release, Jolla smartphones will also start going on sale in more places. The company says it is now “rapidly entering into new markets and is negotiating with partners in several countries” — which include Russia, India and Hong Kong. Online sales will open in these three countries “in the near future,” Jolla says.
Currently, Jolla smartphones are only available for online orders in parts of Europe.
In September last year, Jolla revealed that its Sailfish OS would be compatible with the Android ecosystem in terms of apps, as well as hardware. Today Jolla announced that Sailfish OS will be made available as downloadable software to selected devices running Android OS — with the Sailfish community having ported the OS into major versions of Samsung’s Galaxy smartphone, Google Nexus and Sony Xperia.
The Sailfish community is also in the midst of porting for popular Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi’s products.
Jolla will release the downloadable Sailfish OS software in phases during the first half of this year. First, it will release a UI launcher Android app for users to start experiencing the Sailfish user interface in their existing devices running Android OS. The app will be available for download in the “near future.” Some time later, the full Sailfish OS will be made available for Android devices.
Jolla believes that Sailfish’s compatibility with the Android ecosystem is not an irony for an operating system that is meant to be an alternative to the current status quo — instead it is tapping on existing products to make it easier for vendors to switch over. Antti Saarnio, chairman of Jolla’s board, says:
We see this as a huge volume opportunity for Sailfish OS as there are close to a billion Android users globally. Many of them are looking for new user experiences to freshen up their existing devices. Last year in China alone, about 100 million devices were re-flashed after the purchase with a new operating system. This approach allows Sailfish OS to scale into volume fast without limitations. This is a scaling opportunity in a similar way as we have seen in the mobile gaming industry recently.
The company also notes that the “availability and interoperability of Android apps in Sailfish OS has increased greatly since the sales start.”
Marc Dillon, the co-founder and chief operating officer of Jolla, says that customers are now able to install their preferred Android app stores to gain access to Android apps. Amid earlier concerns that Android compatibility could make developers less inclined to go native, Dillon notes that the Sailfish OS community has “already developed major social media applications, such as Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp, and Foursquare, natively to the Sailfish OS.”
To scale up its handset business, Jolla has also formed a few new partnerships — namely with Angry Birds developer Rovio, F-Secure and Tieto Corporation. With F-Secure in particular, Jolla customers will receive an undisclosed amount of free cloud storage integrated with their devices.
Jolla was founded by a group of ex-Nokia employees who strongly believed that MeeGo deserved a second chance. Subsequently, it released its first smartphone with a new take on the forgotten platform, called Sailfish OS.
