Comments on: HTC: Ideal Partner Potential For Jolla ?

By: ewedel

ewedel — Thu, 05 Sep 2013 04:15:01 +0000

My experience with HTC is with their (sadly, now older) qwerty phones. They seem quite nice, good quality (esp. the Vision / Desire Z) and no real issues.

The more interesting question is whether Jolla can take advantage of the Chinese interest in “not Android”, whether with or without HTC. Sounds like some serious market opportunity there.

By: Spedex

Spedex — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 18:56:11 +0000

I personally hate HTC. Please Jolla, at least don’t sell your company to Taiwanese for few million euros.

By: Suminda Dharmasena

Suminda Dharmasena — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 13:00:20 +0000

Why don’t Jolla contact HTC and cement the deal.

By: Tia

Tia — Mon, 02 Sep 2013 21:35:54 +0000

I say: YES!!!!!! I love HTC devices, with Jolla would be a perfect understanding!!!

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By: JollaTides

JollaTides — Mon, 02 Sep 2013 10:35:05 +0000

Yes in a way that was what they have always intended…. although I think Sailfish will be a little bit more exclusive or select working closely with their chosen partners whereas Android is more a ‘free for all’.

By: Delirious

Delirious — Sun, 01 Sep 2013 04:20:54 +0000

So you mean Jolla is to Google and the Jolla phone is to the Nexus and Sailfish is to Android which can be taken by manufacturers to bake into their own devices with whatever bloatware the wish to put, while Jolla keeps chugging out it’s own pure Sailfish phone? Too androidy eh? Just way too better though

By: jiipee

jiipee — Sat, 31 Aug 2013 14:14:15 +0000

I wouldnt be too afraid of that. The within app side swipe works ok in WP and should be fine with Sailfish. Afaik one can turn off the OS level gestures within an app.

To me the pulley menu seems a nice feature, but the usability is limited to special cases.

Also, the test what the Mer guys have been doing with different hw have always had adaptation issues with them. Hence, I wouldnt put too much emphasis on those.

The biggest question marks to me are:
– how fast is Alien Dalvik
– how is the battery life?
– general fluidity (so far everything has looked fine)
– Core apps (mapping etc)
– camera performance

By: Lucas Camargo

Lucas Camargo — Fri, 30 Aug 2013 14:30:52 +0000

I believe applications have the capability to turn off edge gestures, just as in Harmattan. So that for example, going back to home screen inside a game does not work unless you pause said game.

By: JollaTides

JollaTides — Fri, 30 Aug 2013 13:55:21 +0000

PS. I have owned 2 HTC phones both of which had excellent build quality and no problems with calls etc. Battery life was on a par with similar handsets which was admittedly bad (android = heavy drain). Overall as I’ve said many times, I much prefer Nokia hardware.