Aurora OS (russian: ОС Аврора) or Russian Open mobile platform (OMP) is a Russian

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-based smartphone operating system developed by

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for business and governmental use. It was branched from

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in 2019 and has its own

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and integration with the Russian government's official radio network ERA.

History

In 2016,

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started a development project whose goal was to localize the Sailfish platform in Russia. For this, a separate company was founded and the Russian-language version was called Sailfish Mobile OS RUS. The first users of the platform were the

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. In 2018, the Russian state applied for a secure mobile phone operating system for official use and Sailfish Mobile OS RUS was chosen and Rostelecom developed it further. In 2019, the platform was renamed Aurora OS. In 2021, Jolla announced that they had left the project and was no longer involved with it. In November 2021, according to Nokiamob.net, there were around 400,000 devices using it. However, in 2022

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reported that sales of the AYYA T1 to consumers were minimal. The ability to produce the hardware needed for the newer models was limited due to the supplier

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halting trade with Russia in response to the

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. This also affected the development of the AYYA T2, the planned successor to the T1, with its custom

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-based "Scythian" processor additionally being affected by overheating problems. Aurora OS 5.0 was revealed at Mobius Fall 2023 Conference on November 1, 2023 in

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. In June 11, 2024, the X user hackerfantastic leaked copies of Aurora OS v. 3.2.1.65, 4.0.2.82 and 4.0.2.249 that were "coming from a phablet left on the back of a bus in Salisbury, England". In the same post he also revealed a vulnerability in the password manager.

Devices

Known devices using Aurora OS are ;Tablets * Aquarius Cmp NS208 * Aquarius CMP NS220 * Aquarius CMP NS220 v5.2 * BytErg МВК-2020 * F+ Life Tab Plus * INOI T8 Tablet (discontinued) ;Phones * Qtech QMP-M1-N * Qtech QMP-M1-N IP68 * MIG С55 (discontinued) * INOI 5i pro * INOI R7 (discontinued) * Blackview bs6000s (discontinued) * F+ R570 * Scale Trustphone T1 / AYYA T1 * Aquarius NS M11{{Cite web , title=Kaspersky Lab has withdrawn from a project to create a smartphone for the military , url=https://tadviser.com/index.php/Product:Aquarius_CMP_NS_M-series_Handheld_PCs_(PDAs) , access-date=2022-08-05 , website=TAdviser.ru

References

External links

Aurora OS
* Tadadviser
Rostelecom has integrated devices based on the Aurora OS into the O2O - Infrastructure Operator for Operators project
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