The Linux phone that's more closed than Android, it's a hard sell for me.
Jolla Phone Pre-Order
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#62> A successor to the iconic original Jolla Phone from 2013
does anyone own this 2013 version? why did it not crash the market?
Also, will my banking app be supported on sailfishOS?
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#63Fool me once shame on you.
Fool me twice shame on me.
Jolla never shipped me a tablet or offered me a refund back when they were making tablets. I would strongly urge people not to pre-order from the company since they have a track record of not shipping and being extremely irresponsible in their communications when they dont ship.
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#64Show the operating system. That is the core of what people will be using - they need to know what it looks like. How easy it is. The phone looks like all other phones.
https://sailfishos.org/
This doesn’t show OS, sadly. Only a list of some features that nobody outside of geek cultures care.
Show flashy videos, images, gorgeous animations.
If someone from jolla reads this: Just hire DHH as your hypeman, he’ll be able to sell anything to lemmings.
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#65> A successor to the iconic original Jolla Phone from 2013 does anyone own this 2013 version? why did it not crash the market? Also, will my banking app be supported on sailfishOS?
I have it - Wayland, BTRFS, RPM and systemd on a phone - in 2013!
Why did it not set the wolrd on fire back then ? Ruthless monopoly building on both Google and Apple side IMHO.
It's a great success Jolla still exists and does its thing. :-)
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#67The Linux phone that's more closed than Android, it's a hard sell for me.
Can you explain this a bit more? What is closed about it?
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#68Show the operating system. That is the core of what people will be using - they need to know what it looks like. How easy it is. The phone looks like all other phones.
Isn't it SailfishOS? It shouldn't be too hard to find screenshots/screencasts. I just hope it has good mainline kernel support.
Yeah - its a real daily usable thing on supported hardware & I have been using it on primary phone since 2013. :)
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#69> Entering other markets, such as the U.S. and Canada are to be decided due course based on potential interest from the areas. As an American, I will order this phone as soon as it’s available to me! I’m not aware of any similar option for us at the moment so I’m a little sad.
They have a history of not shipping. They took my money for a tablet pre-order but never shipped anything. Didnt offer refunds either.
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#70What is Jolla now? I remember it as startup created by previous Nokia employees that tried to build a Nokia-type of phone based on Maemo? Or do I remember it wrong?
No, you're right. SailfishOS inherits the core of the OS from the old Maemo of Nokia N900 fame (though the UI was built from scratch I believe). I tried it back in the day on my Nexus 4 and it was buttery smooth, even with all its fancy animations and gesture-based navigation, which was way ahead of Android at the time. I always thought SailfishOS would really take off by now, given how advanced and polished it alrea…
They filled for bankruptcy again last year (first was the Tablet debacle in I think 2015) but have since managed to survive it again, so all is well. :)