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I have a Jolla phone and I love it. I guess I'm among the luckier ones as my phone doesn't have any of the wiggly sim/battery problems. It's been very stable fo

by plq 12y ago

I have a Jolla phone and I love it. I guess I'm among the luckier ones as my phone doesn't have any of the wiggly sim/battery problems. It's been very stable for me for the past 8 or so months I had it. I love the battery life. Perhaps thanks to using Qt/C++ instead of a higher level language/framework, or perhaps thanks to me being social-medially-challenged, the standard 2200 mah battery takes me for a good chunk of 48 hours. Yes, there aren't much apps for it, (there was a time when you could practically download the entire Jolla store to your phone) but almost all of the apps are open source. If you're craving for the latest episode of Brain Crush Saga, you're not in the target audience anyway. There are also a couple of factors which make it a unique offering: -It's not from Google, it's not from Apple, so I'm a bit more comfortable privacy-wise. -The concept of "The Other Half". It's sort of a "hardware app" that you can use as the back cover of your phone. For example, there's a kickstarter for a The Other Half Keyboard running right now: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2028347278/tohkbd-the-other-half-keyboard-for-your-jolla https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2028347278/tohkbd-the-o.... -No front-facing buttons! Huge success design-wise. Not gorgeous like the N9 (reportedly due to some patent issues), but still very eye-pleasing. All in all, very cute device, but definitely not (yet) for everyone. As for the tablet, I expect to be a lot more productive with it compared to the toys on the market now, especially thanks to it being an Intel-based device with a proper Linux distribution. And at ~200$ for this kind of device, to me it's a bargain. The Indie GoGo page is buried far down the page, so here it is for your convenience: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/jolla-tablet-world-s-first-crowdsourced-tablet/contributions/new?perk_amt=204&perk_id=2484192 https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/jolla-tablet-world-s-firs... Keep up the amazing work, Jolla team, you are making a difference. Disclaimer: No affiliation, just a happy customer.

stuaxo 12y ago
Wish I wasn't having those problems :/
- ganzuul 12y ago
  After taking my battery and SIM card out and putting them back in a few times, those glitches no longer occur for me. I get about 48h of light use though. Battery life used to be worse, but I was able to tell an indexing service to only run after boot and not during use. Might be updates overwrite user customizations, so I need to do it again. After that update the phone refused to talk with Debian Wheezy and Windows 7 over USB but Ubuntu 14.4 LTS works just swimmingly now, and it's what I use on my desktop anyway. That update finally resolved an issue with the screen not wanting to unlock, and now it's smooth sailing. I'm actually quite happy with the phone. I expected issues when I bought it and since I'm proficient with Linux I can solve them from the command line interface. The phone won't let me copy-paste from the GUI to the CLI; as per a bug report this functionality is pending robust sanity checking and security. The keyboard is very sensitive in just the right way and once I got used to the UI Android started to feel like a bygone era. I'm Finnish, and during the holidays I'll probably be expected to advise my relatives on whether or not they can upgrade their tablets to Jolla's new device. Note that just yesterday Nokia announced a new Android tablet: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30096603 http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30096603 An odd coincidence? (p.s. I had only just learned to use QtCreator for Symbian when the Microsoft deal was announced. Jolla relies on Qt, so getting started with Qt was in fact not a waste of time. I'm looking forward to learning functional C++14!)
- jcfrei 12y ago
  A friend of mine reported some issues as well and he suggested that a lot of those problems might simply come from oxidizing contacts, as mentioned in: https://together.jolla.com/question/7144/jolla-randomly-shuts-down-10819/#post-id-52658 https://together.jolla.com/question/7144/jolla-randomly-shut... I'd give it a shot.
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mbel 12y ago
> battery takes me for a good chunk of 48 hours. I'm actually quite surprised it's only 48 hours. My is keeping 3-4 days without charging. I have it configured to check 3 IMAP accunts and sync facebook, twitter & gmail once per hour, with a couple of most used apps running constantly. To be honest I never expected that I will be to find a phone that will stay charged for more than single day.

by plq 12y ago

stuaxo 12y ago

Wish I wasn't having those problems :/

ganzuul 12y ago
After taking my battery and SIM card out and putting them back in a few times, those glitches no longer occur for me. I get about 48h of light use though. Battery life used to be worse, but I was able to tell an indexing service to only run after boot and not during use. Might be updates overwrite user customizations, so I need to do it again. After that update the phone refused to talk with Debian Wheezy and Windows 7 over USB but Ubuntu 14.4 LTS works just swimmingly now, and it's what I use on my desktop anyway. That update finally resolved an issue with the screen not wanting to unlock, and now it's smooth sailing. I'm actually quite happy with the phone. I expected issues when I bought it and since I'm proficient with Linux I can solve them from the command line interface. The phone won't let me copy-paste from the GUI to the CLI; as per a bug report this functionality is pending robust sanity checking and security. The keyboard is very sensitive in just the right way and once I got used to the UI Android started to feel like a bygone era. I'm Finnish, and during the holidays I'll probably be expected to advise my relatives on whether or not they can upgrade their tablets to Jolla's new device. Note that just yesterday Nokia announced a new Android tablet: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30096603 http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30096603 An odd coincidence? (p.s. I had only just learned to use QtCreator for Symbian when the Microsoft deal was announced. Jolla relies on Qt, so getting started with Qt was in fact not a waste of time. I'm looking forward to learning functional C++14!)
jcfrei 12y ago
A friend of mine reported some issues as well and he suggested that a lot of those problems might simply come from oxidizing contacts, as mentioned in: https://together.jolla.com/question/7144/jolla-randomly-shuts-down-10819/#post-id-52658 https://together.jolla.com/question/7144/jolla-randomly-shut... I'd give it a shot.

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mbel 12y ago

> battery takes me for a good chunk of 48 hours. I'm actually quite surprised it's only 48 hours. My is keeping 3-4 days without charging. I have it configured to check 3 IMAP accunts and sync facebook, twitter & gmail once per hour, with a couple of most used apps running constantly. To be honest I never expected that I will be to find a phone that will stay charged for more than single day.