OK, all the garbage in the video is really, really strange. It completely distracted me and kind of grossed me out. I don't know who thought that was a good idea.
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#152They 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…
It's important because it's a unique OS. Hardware while innovative, isn't radically different from the rest (except for the other half idea).
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#153As a (still happy) n900 user looking for an upgrade path to a decent open phone with modern hardware, I'm hoping that Sailfish gives you command line/root access. Realistically that probably won't happen in this first iteration, but I've held out for long enough now to be able to wait another 6 months to see what happens. A hardware keyboard would also be nice, the bigger the better, but you can't have it all...
Jukka Eklund tweeted the following: https://twitter.com/jukkaeklund/status/405766972765642752
Seems like the phone already has the command line implemented. Great for them.
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#154Why should I buy this device now? 400EUR a lot of money and on Twitter they write:
Calendar sync is not supported at the moment.
MMS is not supported at the moment.
We do not have DLNA support at the moment.
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#155Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm pretty sure they can't use "Nokia" in their advertisements.
I'm pretty sure they can say jolla is the phone, sailfish the os, and that it comes from meego tho. and everything else without mentioning even Nokia. heh.
I just did experiment and asked my wife what OS is running on her phone. She has no idea. She owns N9.
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#156I'll be getting it as soon as they'll confirm compatibility with T-Mobile LTE.
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#157So I watched the video, and I still have no idea what Jolla is. I was not impressed by anything in the video, but that's besides the point. If you're a technology company, this hipster crap is ok, but you need to start with explaining what it is and how it's better. Showing a bunch of gestures does nothing - Android can do that.
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#158FYI: those who wonder about the technology, check out these sites:
* http://mer-project.blogspot.com/2013/04/wayland-utilizing-an...
* http://mer-project.blogspot.com/2013/05/wayland-utilizing-an...
Jolla.com is more consumer oriented, so that can puzzle some who look for technical details. It's probably good to provide some links to the above from the Jolla.com. You can give them feedback, they are even present on Diaspora*: https://joindiaspora.com/u/jolla
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#159All I learned from the video is that this is a phone for people with very messy desks.
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#160They 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…
Considering the choice of images on their front page, their current target seems to be more niche. Number of open source, Nokia, Maemo/Meego enthusiasts is probably big enough to give their sales a decent start.
Best wishes to Jolla. We truly deserve to have free-as-in-free-speech phones.