The Shutterstock comment[0] is dispositive: one of their alleged photos of alleged human employees is a verifiably fake image, with a background that matches a stock photo. (2,2 on their "Meet our Team" section, "Ricardo Mesía / Marketing & Comunications". Does not exist).
What I see here is a big Opus Dei family full of business contacts but no technical background. I'm not on front of my keyboard right now, but the Pasquín Echanove family is big and have been controlling parts of Spanish (and US) banks. But I don't think they have any future on this. I wouldn't give them a single Euro.
For context, this article comes from galaxus.ch, the most widely used online reseller in Switzerland. It basically replaces amazon, amazon does not exist in Switzerland.
>Whether the smartphone with promising hardware will actually see the light of day, however, will depend on its crowdfunding campaign, which will start soon.
So it's not an actual product yet just some renderings.
Apparently, still in crowdfunding, and not available yet?
On the other hand, Sailfish phones (https://sailfishos.org/) are Linux-based, tout "Fourth generation security", can run Android apps (the killer feature!), and - most importantly - are available now.
I'm not sure I'd call anything using libhybris "Linux-based". Their low-level elements come from Android with all the problems that implies, including Android being Linux only in the most irrelevant technical sense.
Sailfish is based on the Linux kernel, and Mer, which itself is a fork of MeeGo - a mobile Linux distro.
Hybris is just one component that Mer supports: a compatibility layer which allows the use of Android libraries and drivers. But that doesn't make it the backbone of Sailfish...
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[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42804081
So it's not an actual product yet just some renderings.
On the other hand, Sailfish phones (https://sailfishos.org/) are Linux-based, tout "Fourth generation security", can run Android apps (the killer feature!), and - most importantly - are available now.
Hybris is just one component that Mer supports: a compatibility layer which allows the use of Android libraries and drivers. But that doesn't make it the backbone of Sailfish...
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