The Jolla phone – first impressions • Hacker News Board

Re: The Jolla phone – first impressions

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Post by daliusd » Sat, Nov 30, 2013, 7:57 AM UTC

Kluny wrote: post #96

daliusd wrote: post #78

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Nokia 515 is waiting for you. Really. Check out it. Still there is nothing exceptional about this hardware IMHO.

Wow, that looks amazing. I find myself wishing there was a banana for scale, though. Is it as small as the old candybar phones?

You can always use online tools to compare size:

http://www.phonearena.com/phones/Nokia-515_id8116/size#/phon...

Re: The Jolla phone – first impressions

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Post by leoedin » Tue, Dec 03, 2013, 2:06 PM UTC

valvoja wrote: post #92

leoedin wrote: post #83

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So you lost interest... and stopped reading completely? Had you read any further you would have realised that the unique feature is that there's both a power connector and an I2C interface available to those back covers. It's a pretty brilliant concept - you could interface with the whole host of cool chips which use I2C, or even build yourself a little robot chassis.

Power connector like the wireless chargers by Nokia etc? Not sure what a I2C interface is... My point is that I would prefer objective reviews, not glowing praise from fans etc. The key question for is not what tech did they pack in a small screen device, but does it actually feel better to use than the incumbents.

If you don't know what an I2C interface is, then you're not in a position to make the criticism that you made. If you were at all interested in expanding your knowledge, a simple google search would reveal that it's a ubiquitous serial interface for communicating with peripheral chips. All that requires more work than just blindly making critical comments on an online message board though, so why bother?

Re: The Jolla phone – first impressions

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Post by magnet_ball » Fri, Dec 06, 2013, 7:09 PM UTC

manmal wrote: post #2

I can't believe that no pixels can be seen on a 4,5" screen with a resolution of 960x540. That would be a worse density than my > 3 year old HTC desire. A mistake in the article?

That's 330 ppi by my calculation. The iphone has the same pixel density and it is very much good. I don't see the reason to push 1080 pixels on my tiny 4.5 or even 5 inch phone.