Am I supposed to be impressed by this? "truly open and gesture based OS". I thought the open card has been played and dead already. And don't iOS and Android both have plenty of gestures? I didn't see anything new at all.
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#122Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was referring to physical buttons. Like I said, if your hands are wet, or you sneeze on the screen, or it is raining, or whatever, virtual buttons fail.
I've missed plenty of calls because I was in the shower or washing dishes and couldn't get my hands dry enough quickly enough to pick up the phone. I've also missed calls intentionally because I didn't want to take my gloves off in below-zero-Fahrenheit weather just to answer a call, and I couldn't answer a call with my gloves on. I do wish smartphones phones came with a fallback "answer call" feature that didn't rel…
If you can sneak up on it without triggering the proximity sensor I find pecking the screen with my nose works. If it's not wet & runny...
I'll be skipping this Jolla iteration and I am sad b/c a 2nd is looking doubtful. When my N900 dies I'll be going retro w/ my flip-phone, until an open device with physical keyboard, larger screen and isn't designed to spy on me 24/7 comes around.
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#123Anyone else really distracted by the extremely messy desks. Who honestly leaves a wet, browning apple core just sitting on their desk. That's just going to be a sticky bloody mess later.
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#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sorry, I meant N9 when I said N900 which was earlier. Yes, it was actually released, and I would have been interested in it if it weren't for the fact that they released it right as they cancelled Meego development and switched to Windows. Now there have been several forks of that effort since then, like Sailfish and Tizen, but they haven't actually shipped anything yet, so it's been two years without any real update…
As mentioned elsewhere in the comments, Jolla's first device launches today: http://gadgets.ndtv.com/mobiles/news/jolla-sailfish-os-power...
Yes, I was answering the question "I always wondered why Jolla is getting so little love from HN." Until today, it has been vaporware. In fact, it's still vaporware as far as I can see; there isn't a "buy" button, there's a "sign up to be emailed when it's ready", though it looks like they are launching in Finland today and the rest of the world later.
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#125Am I supposed to be impressed by this? "truly open and gesture based OS". I thought the open card has been played and dead already. And don't iOS and Android both have plenty of gestures? I didn't see anything new at all.
Of course they are not selling open software but a hardware product (which may or may not be locked down).
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#126>User-replaceable battery
OH. GOD. YES!
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#127They seem to put a lot of effort into telling you things other than "what is this thing?" It sorta looks like a phone. Is it a phone? "Jolla is powered by Sailfish OS." Sweet. How is that relevant? It must be important because it spends the rest of the page telling you about the OS. I'm back here, with honestly no idea what it is. Probably not the impression they want to leave on people, assuming (as a guess) that th…
For the people who are genuinely confused, Jolla is a company that sells smartphones, their first smartphone is also called Jolla; it runs Sailfish OS, which is effectively a fork of the Meego operating system which Nokia used in its N9/N900 phones, before they switched to Windows Mobile. This is not very surprising, because Jolla is a Finnish company principally made up of ex-Nokia engineers, including a lot of the…
Didn't N900 run Maemo? Also, I'm not even sure N9 ran Meego. If it did, then it was Meego + Nokia's own UI.
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#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
You have to click one link on the front page to a short summary of what Jolla is. One link. One. Of, you can just scroll down. That's it.
"Jolla is powered by Sailfish OS, a truly open and distinct mobile operating system. Navigate effortlessly with the gesture-based user interface and load the phone with top Android™ apps." I assume you are talking about this? Because that really told me nothing worthwhile. I wish these (horribly to use scrolling) sites would just give me link that takes me to a half page description that explains in some detail what…
What do you mean nothing worthwhile? Isn't that exactly what it is? A phone with an OS that isn't Android/iOS/Windows/Ubuntu/Firefox? What other description are you expecting?
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#129They seem to put a lot of effort into telling you things other than "what is this thing?" It sorta looks like a phone. Is it a phone? "Jolla is powered by Sailfish OS." Sweet. How is that relevant? It must be important because it spends the rest of the page telling you about the OS. I'm back here, with honestly no idea what it is. Probably not the impression they want to leave on people, assuming (as a guess) that th…
For the people who are genuinely confused, Jolla is a company that sells smartphones, their first smartphone is also called Jolla; it runs Sailfish OS, which is effectively a fork of the Meego operating system which Nokia used in its N9/N900 phones, before they switched to Windows Mobile. This is not very surprising, because Jolla is a Finnish company principally made up of ex-Nokia engineers, including a lot of the…
Did they make the switch to Qt 5 before the release or will the first version ship with Qt 4?
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#130It really bothers me that they didn't do something about the flickering infrared light in the video. I know it's not going to show up in real life, but that's going to confuse some people who aren't aware of the fact cameras can see some things we don't.