Comments on: Jolla Press Release: 16/09/13

By: Juan

Juan — Thu, 19 Sep 2013 19:22:46 +0000

Do the Sailfish OS support RK29 SOC? where can I download?
BTW you may also get compatibility with Windows RT apps with http://wiki.winehq.org/ARM

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Thu, 19 Sep 2013 12:23:04 +0000

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By: c.la

c.la — Thu, 19 Sep 2013 12:07:07 +0000

new specs for jolla phone came out.. very very disappointing screen resolution
I might cancel my preorder if they don’t improve screen resolution

https://jolla.com/your-jolla/

By: enigmaemo

enigmaemo — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 17:49:17 +0000

Rough estimate from the photo : screen = 56.2×99.5mm (4.5″, 16/9), phone = 68×131.6mm which means approximately the same size as the 4.7″ RAZR HD (67.9×131.9). It’s a little too big IMHO.

By: enigmaemo

enigmaemo — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 17:46:40 +0000

Why are you so definitive about that? According to their Twitter feed ( https://twitter.com/JollaHQ/status/379898194143875072 ), Android apps will be available from Sailfish store, alternate store or directly using the browser.

By: Shaun Murray (@aegisdesign)

Shaun Murray (@aegisdesign) — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 16:16:16 +0000

The user experience of a Jolla phone is still going to be pure SailfishOS UI for the majority of the time. All the core apps that matter for most people – mail, contacts, calendar, twitter, facebook, camera, maps, music are native Sailfish apps.

By: egnat69 (@egnat69)

egnat69 (@egnat69) — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 09:11:58 +0000

manufacturers would have to put smaller batteries in the sailfish-version of the device to disguise the power-consumption of android ;D

By: gg

gg — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 06:04:19 +0000

sailfish use android driver, do it mean it will lag

By: TJ

TJ — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 05:57:38 +0000

1. In my view Android is inferior to iOS. I had hoped that Sailfish would provide a superior user experience to iPhone – sufficiently improved to justify a move from Apple back to a start-up EU product. But since the majority of apps will be limited to Android (with little or no incentive to go sailfish native) it is a ‘downgrade’.
2. To some extent I agree with you – and admit to a certain misunderstanding. I had hoped I was buying into a high-end niche product. If the aim is for mass market then I would remain sceptical as to whether Jolla can compete irrespective of adopting Android (unless it goes down the ‘China route’ but that’s another issue…) Not sure how the marketing and branding fits with a mass market appeal however.
3. Yes. I’d have preferred fewer (but higher quality) apps at launch. Bring in users and developers via quality rather than simply the quantity of replicating Android apps.
4. Happy to be proved wrong! And in Helsinki late December so hopefully will be using my Jolla ‘at home’!

By: Shaun Murray (@aegisdesign)

Shaun Murray (@aegisdesign) — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 00:47:07 +0000

Any developer who was considering Sailfish before today was by definition developing for a niche and Jolla have been saying since the first hardware reveal that Android compatibility would be in the final device. That hasn’t changed.

Since Sailfish and Android’s UI are different, any developer developing native Sailfish apps is going to have an advantage over Android apps. Sailfish apps will integrate with the OS better, look better and run faster. It remains to be seen of course how much users care.

For games though I do wonder if we’ll see any native Sailfish games. Generally games don’t integrate and have their own UI. I doubt this matters at all.