Comments on: The Competition Heats Up… http://jollatides.com/2013/01/10/the-competition-heats-up/ Tue, 15 Jan 2013 08:46:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: JollaTides http://jollatides.com/2013/01/10/the-competition-heats-up/comment-page-1/#comment-3004 Tue, 15 Jan 2013 01:59:38 +0000 http://jollatides.com/?p=773#comment-3004 Oh yes I’ve seen those images when I was researching Ubuntu – I just thought the image shared in the article was a nice visual illustration showing the swiping ideas and other key features of Ubuntu. Thanks for following up on the links I’m sure other (lazy so and so’s j/k) will benefit. :-)

]]> By: Act http://jollatides.com/2013/01/10/the-competition-heats-up/comment-page-1/#comment-3000 Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:46:29 +0000 http://jollatides.com/?p=773#comment-3000 Yeah is an old mockup when N9 impressed the tech world and was the hope off all the open community :-( . This probably inspired the actual Ubuntu Phone OS UX.

Ok lazy blogger :-) you can choose between this http://blog.linuxvideo.ro/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/ubuntu-phone-os.jpg or that http://www.googland.fr/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/ubuntu-phone-os.jpg

]]> By: JollaTides http://jollatides.com/2013/01/10/the-competition-heats-up/comment-page-1/#comment-2998 Mon, 14 Jan 2013 19:41:06 +0000 http://jollatides.com/?p=773#comment-2998 Thanks for pointing that out I thought it was a nice graphic for Ubuntu all the same. Also, the funny thing I noticed the other day was that the ‘Ubuntu phone’ in the graphic looks very similar to the N9! If you have a better graphic for Ubuntu post a link and I’ll get it updated. ;-)

]]> By: JollaTides http://jollatides.com/2013/01/10/the-competition-heats-up/comment-page-1/#comment-2996 Mon, 14 Jan 2013 19:31:49 +0000 http://jollatides.com/?p=773#comment-2996 Sony would definitely make a great partner, but I think Jolla would do well to attract a number of manufacturers as is their plan – for me – Nokia, Sony and maybe HTC would all be great considerations. I guess the more the merrier as they say! Nice to see you back – hope you had a good Christmas/New Year jiippee! :-)

]]> By: jiipee http://jollatides.com/2013/01/10/the-competition-heats-up/comment-page-1/#comment-2992 Mon, 14 Jan 2013 18:36:59 +0000 http://jollatides.com/?p=773#comment-2992 I would go with Sony as well:
1. They have also other screen sizes (tvs, tablets, music player) where they could use a common platform and toolkit (qt).
2. They also have playstation. I dont know the tech behind it, but at some stage they might need to align all their products to one platform. This makes them direct competition to MS, hence, WP is not an option
3. They have strong media business. They could use their own media / app store to cash those investments. They compete both with Apple, MS and Google stores

]]> By: Gamgigo http://jollatides.com/2013/01/10/the-competition-heats-up/comment-page-1/#comment-2979 Sun, 13 Jan 2013 19:06:09 +0000 http://jollatides.com/?p=773#comment-2979 Why all the negativity about tizen? From what I’ve seen the OS looks good, and Samsung clearly have the capability to create and push devices. I’d place tizen as my second favourite (after sailfish).

]]> By: SaiKo http://jollatides.com/2013/01/10/the-competition-heats-up/comment-page-1/#comment-2978 Sun, 13 Jan 2013 16:08:18 +0000 http://jollatides.com/?p=773#comment-2978 Actually, in third world countries the mobile phone networks are well developed by now.
Since they lack the infrastructure of landlines like we have historically built up, it’s a lot cheaper for internet providers to set up a 3g network to reach a lot of possible customers than to actually build up a phone-line network.
Mobile internet (3g modems) is most often the only internet people can get there, therefore cheap smartphones target exactly those regions.

Their mobile use is even a little ahead compared to us, for example micro-payments via mobile, comparable to what we are seeing here now with nfc phones (but without the nfc), is something they’ve been doing on their nokia’s for years already (maybe because nokia never provided that service in western countries).

]]> By: SaiKo http://jollatides.com/2013/01/10/the-competition-heats-up/comment-page-1/#comment-2977 Sun, 13 Jan 2013 15:40:06 +0000 http://jollatides.com/?p=773#comment-2977 Me too will be making a hard choice between sailfish and ubuntu.
Or, since ubuntu is only to be released in 2014, i’d first get a sailfish device (or maybe run it on my n9) and a year later a ubuntu one.

Anyway, the idea of having a phone that you can just dock to a desktop screen+keyboard+mouse to do some basic computing is something i’ve been thinking of since i got my n900.
Happy to see it actually happening in the ‘near’ future.

Whatever happens, i just hope to see a high-end device with qwerty slider.
Strange that none of the new phone os announcements demonstrate a landscape mode, so i’m beginning to fear that that isn’t even being considered anymore.

btw. the pictures of ubuntu phone above look nothing like the ubuntu for smartphones in the demonstration or hands-on video’s i’ve seen.
The Guy Fawkes mask and [Musl1m] tag bottom left don’t make it look legit either.

]]> By: Lacrimosa http://jollatides.com/2013/01/10/the-competition-heats-up/comment-page-1/#comment-2976 Sun, 13 Jan 2013 02:40:43 +0000 http://jollatides.com/?p=773#comment-2976 Here is the website for reference, I’m sorry I didn’t include it in the original reply:
http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/linux-ubuntu-sailfish-plasma-active-103978

]]> By: Lacrimosa http://jollatides.com/2013/01/10/the-competition-heats-up/comment-page-1/#comment-2975 Sun, 13 Jan 2013 02:39:47 +0000 http://jollatides.com/?p=773#comment-2975 It’s interesting, I heard that Sailfish and Ubuntu might share APIs, especially since they both use Qt5.

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