As we get closer to Sailfish 1.0 which will be announced with a tons of new features and stabilized background (Although it was quite stable in beta release despite the occasional bugs which were natural for a beta OS) a lot of hackers and developers are gathering together to announce new stuff or work on new OtherHalves or maybe learn new things from each other.

Today at Devaamo’s Jolla/Sailfish hackday there were a lot going on and me not being in Finland obviously could not attend and learn stuff.

They had design lectures from Jolla’s senior designer Jaakko Roppola, they had introductions by Artem Marchenko and they started coding apps, demoing apps and finally did some hardware hacking.

About the software coding and application developing nothing really major has came out to my personal sight (Although I could be wrong) but for hardware hacking and The Other Half development there were a lot going on thanks to Kimmo Lindholm (Developer of OLED TOH) for the equipment and others for participating.

These are the pictures we had throughout Twitter:

E-INK OtherHalf

I managed to work a bit on the e-ink TOH thanks to #Devaamo hack day pic.twitter.com/Ti6GV8cRTg — Alberto Martinez (@elmenqui) February 22, 2014





So a lot of demand was “having an e-ink OtherHalf” even before the phone got launched because apparently there are other manufacturers with dual screen phones and one of them is e-ink which is cool, so there we’re gonna have it in some time after development 😉



The other photos are not anything specified, but it’s nice to see them and end the post with them!













Featured image courtesy goes to Artem Marchenko and the logo used on the image is Devaamo‘s logo + predictably our logo!

Thanks guys for making this happen. Hope to see more of these hackdays with more enthusiasm and love.