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2026.07.31

I set up my Sailfish phone (Sony Xperia 10 III) back in 2023.
Sailfish is a beautiful OS and a great alternative to iOS and Android.
It is also straightforward to install and I had the job done in about 40mins.

Sadly, back then I didn't have time to make it do all the things I wanted it to do and I missed the camera from my Lumia 950.
It was relegated to a drawer in 2024 but recently, I needed some data from it, and I eventually managed to get the phone to power back on.

The browser in Windows Mobile doesn't deal well with the Anubis forum extension, so I took that as an indication to try and move on again from Windows Mobile.
I updated SFOS from 4.6.0.x to 5.1.0.11 and a lot has improved.
I was able to get Brave and Thunderbird running as android apps under AppSupport, as well as VLC and The King James Bible.
The full Pure Maps application via Chum is on there too and the FluvalSmart app to adjust the lighting in my aquarium even works, now that Bluetooth works via AppSupport.

One problem that I had before was trying to get Sailfish to sync contacts and calendars with xbomber.co.uk over CardDAV and CalDAV.
Nothing seems to have improved in that area, so I exported everything from Roundcube and created a new fruux account.
Everything syncs flawlessly with that.

I will probably still end up using the Lumia as a camera from-time-to-time, but I feel very positive about having a phone that does everything that I want without the unbelievable intrusiveness of android.

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