After more than a year of development, the updated distribution kit for mobile phones, NemoMobile 0.7, was released, using the developments of the Mer project, but based on the ManjaroArm project. The size of the system image for Pine Phone is 740 MB. All applications and services are open sourced under GPL and BSD licenses and are available on GitHub.
NemoMobile was originally planned as an open source replacement for Nokia's Harmattan project and was developed as a collaboration between the community and Jolla. However, over time, Jolla focused on the partially closed SailfishOS without paying enough attention to the open part of the Mer project - NemoMobile. The last release of NemoMobile took place in April 2013
In 2019, a team of enthusiasts began migrating NemoMobile components from the Mer base to the Manjaro base. Projects have also emerged to port NemoMobile to other operating systems such as Fedora and OpenEmbedend. The main reason for the transition from the Mer base was outdated components. In particular, Mer still uses Qt version 5.6 due to licensing restrictions.
At the moment, the transition of NemoMobile components to Qt 5.15 and other modern versions of packages has been carried out. Added missing applications such as contacts, mail, browser, settings, weather, package manager, polkit agent and authentication plugin.
The main problems that remain unresolved now are sending SMS (reception works) and voice calls. Images for PinePhone and PineTab are currently available, and images for Google Pixel 3a and Volla Phone are also in development.
Source: opennet.ru