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Jolla J2 Unboxing and First Impressions (youtube.com)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/linuxphones@lemmy.ca
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cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/48809351

YT desc: First impressions of the Finnish phone company Jolla's new phone running SailfishOS, a Linux distribution with the ability to run Android applications on the device.

Looks like the viewer hasnt used the os before which makes for a bit more interesting pov

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[–] 1 point 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)

Well, it probably has verified boot then. I see no. reason for a bootloader lock to exist without that.

Verified boot is a technology like Secure boot/Android Verified Boot, which prevents the device from running binaries with unknown signatures (they can also be specified in Secure boot and on certain android devices (see: Graphene OS, VBRoot)). While it only works for the kernel on Linux and Windows, the Android VB is way more secure, since it also verifies some system applications (also see Graphene OS).

The tech is better than just locked BL, because it also protects the device from kernel level malware, not just evil maid.

It's really interesting.

Edit: Also, thanks for the info. I'll wait until the price settles on the used market before buying one (but I doubt it will since it's a low volume device).

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Who knows. It is certainly low volume but some who buy it with wrong expectations might bring it to the used market very soon, at least in certain numbers. The question is how much demand will be there, possibly more than supply.

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