Comments on: Vesa Matti: Qwerty Is Technically A Possibility

By: Shane

Shane — Fri, 23 Aug 2013 06:23:48 +0000

But it will be a waste of time, read this:
http://jolla.com/unsolicited-ideas-terms-and-policy/
Supposedly their “co-creation program” will allow for input from users like yourself.
I’ll believe that when I see it…. >.>

By: Shane

Shane — Fri, 23 Aug 2013 06:13:49 +0000

“Why not do a story asking readers if they specifically want no qwerty?”

And to be fair, put that proposition forward as regularly as you do for a Jolla WITH qwerty.

By: Shane

Shane — Fri, 23 Aug 2013 06:09:30 +0000

By: Shane

Shane — Fri, 23 Aug 2013 06:08:02 +0000

Why not do a story asking readers if they specifically want no qwerty?
“UNLESS” it’s offered as a Other Half sometime in the future -maybe.

By: Shane

Shane — Fri, 23 Aug 2013 06:04:40 +0000

Are you a active follower of the TMO community? It may not be getting much love from Nokia (pretty much zero for ages now), but there’s still LOTS going on in the TMO community which breaths life into Harmattan.

By: 203

203 — Thu, 22 Aug 2013 20:13:27 +0000

A few years ago, mobile phones were produced in a variety of form factors including those with hardware qwerty keypads. That variety no longer exists but the desire for hardware keypads hasn’t gone away amongst those that preferred and bought qwerty devices. I use both touchscreen and hardware keyboards. I can live with a touchscreen for simple things like status updates on social networks but when I’ve got some proper writing to do, especially when accuracy counts, a hardware keyboard cannot be beaten. Anyone care to replace the keyboard on their desktop or laptop computer with a touchscreen?

By: egon

egon — Thu, 22 Aug 2013 15:11:14 +0000

I would like to point out some other features which are essential for high-end or “pro” smartphones. The HW Qwerty keyboard alone can’t convert a smartphone to a good “professional smartphone”. If I would have been asked “what is your favorite smartphone which you could use in your profession, at job”, about 8 years ago I might have answered “Nokia 9300 is approaching what I need”. But today I must say “None on the market, Nokia N900 was approaching what I needed – perhaps also N950, but I never got one”. Among the missing features which on Nokia N900 and N9 were not perfect, but were exceptionally good, are:
– (but only on N900) physical Qwerty keyword, with shortcuts with the Ctrl key, and 4 arrow keys,
– text entry suffiently localized for a large number of languages
– acceptable text-editing features (with and without connection to the web)
– acceptable interface and synchronizing with Windows/Linux/Mac computers via USB cable and Bluetooth, using the File managers and applications of the “Pro smartphone” and the computers.

I have in mind many features how the use of a smartphone could be made “pro” easily, without making it “too perfect” (and therefor too expensibe) like the Ubuntu smartphone tries to be. With and without a HW Qwerty keyboard. But because the competitors of Jolla Ltd might be the first to apply those design guidelines, I don’t want to publish them here. This is why my question to “M* Jolla” is: what is the email address or phone number where I could address my report of ‘
“How to upgrade with little money the future Jolla phone to the professional category”?
Or, if that is not posible, could you forward this comment and my email address to a suitable person?

By: Jagdriver

Jagdriver — Wed, 21 Aug 2013 11:25:58 +0000

Sorry Ukkooh, my answer should have been directed to Delirious !

By: Jagdriver

Jagdriver — Wed, 21 Aug 2013 11:21:42 +0000

My black N9 64 GB is my only device since more than a year. I can tell you that it still can keep up with the Droids and the iPhones of my colleagues at the office when used for business. In fact it’s a very good allrounder, nice for funtime, but also very sharp for handling business stuff (email, multiple attachments, multitasking). WP8 looks interesting to me, but, believe it or not, several features of, say a Lumia 920 or 925, are lacking when compared to good old N9. The only other “valid” device for me personally would be the Blackberry Z10 or Q10 (this one would solve the qwerty ssue !). I know, BB is in trouble right now, but I love underdogs… that’s why I went for MeeGo Harmattan in the first place in July 2012 ! I hope the Jolla will be jolly good, I pre-ordered, but it could end up in a fierce battle between Sailfish and BB for me. Wait and see.

By: JollaTides

JollaTides — Wed, 21 Aug 2013 10:33:48 +0000

@Shaun

“If people really don’t like virtual keyboards then their choice is going to be pretty terrible.”

These days it’s not as if people have a choice in the matter – in Europe there is a serious drought of QWERTY models since Nokia went all touchscreen and likewise with other manufacturers. I would suggest a portion of people are backing Jolla because of the links to qwerty models like N900/N950 and the potential of the other half, in the hope that Jolla can deliver.

“I really wonder how representative the readers are here if the majority are clamouring for hardware keyboards.”

I’m not sure I really understand this comment – please could you explain ?