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A month with your Jolla: What are your thoughts?
  • KnuXKnuX
    90.00 KarmaPosts: 81Crew
    So! Most of you have had your Jolla for at least a month now. I'm too much of a qwerty addict to let go right now, but I might end up getting a Jolla as second phone.

    But right now most of you will have had a month or more with your phone, so I'd like to pick your thoughts on it: What do you think of it? Is there something you cannot live without now? Something that you daily hate and hope it gets changed? Something that you would've liked to know when you ordered your Jolla? Do you feel Jolla the company is doing a nice job? Are you disappointed?
    QWERTY fanboy: Nokia N900 (Maemo 5), Sony-Ericsson Xperia Pro (Android 4.0 ICS), Samsung Captivate Glide (Android 4.2 JB), Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G (Android 4.3 JB)
    Still miss the awesomeness of the N900...
  • andreibechetandreibechet
    238.00 KarmaPosts: 196Deckhand
    I generally love the phone, the UI, how it works, the solutions and the community work.
    I am missing certain features which have been widely requested, but the Android compatibility layer does fill in the gap reasonably.
    One thing which I am annoyed is that I keep getting the notification that I have to re-log into my facebook or gmail accounts every now and then. I have not been able so far to reproduce this, because most of the times even though that notification appears, they still work and it goes away.
  • hangfirehangfire
    6.00 KarmaPosts: 3Crew
    Love my Jolla's, great design, possibilities through TOH, love the OS- gestures and all. I love to carry my Jolla every day, it works. Interestingly whole community feverishly contributing makes me ecstatic to try native apps wait for new apps from devs. In essence its breakaway from the formalconsumer manufacturer mould- interesting.
  • rgsidlerrgsidler
    11.00 KarmaPosts: 6Crew
    I really love my Jolla, though there are some issues like no recognition of 64GB
    SDXC-cards, no possibikity to empty the waste paper basket (e-mail). Constantly growing of the space used on the internal memory, if not rebooted from time to time, no czech user interface , though polish is doing it for me so far.
    And that battery-issue is actually a p.i.t.a.

    And the work of the community developers is awesome!

    Communication about upcoming updates could be better, but you always get an answer if asking for support.

    But I love it anyway (bought three of them and am happy about it)
    Post edited by rgsidler at 2014-01-30 17:19:51
  • ratedrated
    150.00 KarmaPosts: 35Crew
    I instantly loved the phone and if I'm perfectly honest that's only grown in adoration since I had it. Yes, there are niggles, but watching as an entire community of like-minded people work together to fix them is fascinating to me (it's actually far more enjoyable watching the Jolla community function as a (very clever - it's amazing how utterly brilliant some of the people with Jollas are) unit than watching dreary TV).

    The OS is incredibly user-friendly and one of the reasons I can't actually put the thing down, even though it's in Beta. I suspect the fully completed version will blow socks off....
  • JollaTidesJollaTides
    517.00 KarmaPosts: 429Captain
    Hear, Hear, love the phone, love the community, can't wait for the next update, more native apps, and really looking forward to the first other half whatever it may be. <3
    Sail On!
    /
  • artisnartisn
    22.00 KarmaPosts: 10Crew
    3 times I was late at work due to no alarm. my jolla was dead. only re-entering battery brought it to life. Few more times it died while sitting in my pocked during the day.

    Constant struggle with getting wi-fi connectivity.

    Every other day i'm asked to enter simcard pin-code for no reason.

    Tethering is great. Have not seen any other device so effective in this. It lasted almost 12h in 1-2bar 3g reception while hot-spotting to my tablet.

    During this month I got almost used to stuttering interface/performance. Jollacare thanked me for my input and closed ticket. (sorry, i still am not convinced that other jolla users' gadgets are acting like mine in video/pics i submitted)

    Mail client - definitely not business oriented. Too long list to count all the shortcommings

    Starting to get jealous at iphone/N9/android users who can interact with most of messages the phone brings up.
    Jolla messages are mostly informative. No way to interact with them


  • KnuXKnuX
    90.00 KarmaPosts: 81Crew
    Thanks for all your feedback. Indeed it seems that there's still some work left, but I'm glad to see that most people are happy with their Jolla.
    QWERTY fanboy: Nokia N900 (Maemo 5), Sony-Ericsson Xperia Pro (Android 4.0 ICS), Samsung Captivate Glide (Android 4.2 JB), Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G (Android 4.3 JB)
    Still miss the awesomeness of the N900...
  • jollamatejollamate
    95.00 KarmaPosts: 56Crew
    i'm comparing the BB Z10 with the Jolla/Sailfish and it shows me that Jolla has a long way to go. Pull down menu with all necessary setup options, clear interface, ergonomic location of button (button to end a phone call better accessible), screen doesn't go black during nav app. That concerns just the most obvious elements of the UI/UX which is simply smooth in BB10. To be earnest that text buttons with the dotted underlines are from a past millennium.
    Android apps are better integrated, no need to emulate the the back and menu button. Sailfish needs a quantum leap, hopefully in 1.0.4.x
    GPS/Glonas receiver takes much too long for 1st fix and tells me much too often "weak signal".
    Mail app? Oh boy ... no possibility to simply go to the next/previous mail. Have to go back to the mail tree and select another mail. In BB10 two soft buttons within the lower left corner provide jumping to next/previous mail.
    Scrolling through app pages is a pain in the ass. As Sailfish offers no folders I have to scroll back endlessly if I'm at the bottom. For the moment in Sailfish best way to overcome this is to bring the phone to sleep and wake it up. Showing the user in 1.0.4.x that he has reached end of the list by dimming the screen is a nice feature but doesn't heal/deal this nasty problem. Brighter bars and dots are nice but the brainpower could have been invested better.
    Post edited by jollamate at 2014-03-11 13:26:25
  • jollamatejollamate
    95.00 KarmaPosts: 56Crew
    Update 1.0.4.20 works fine
    I had some problems with html mails - gone
    Prolems with flash sms - gone
    Even standby time is better

    Still much work to do but i see improvements
  • Rob_ComptonRob_Compton
    8.00 KarmaPosts: 6Crew
    I loved my Jolla. I have to say loved because it's dead, well dead-ish. I didn't have it long before it fell into a bucket of water!! I gave it the old bucket of rice trick and it was fine until about a month ago when the earpiece audio started to distort. Now it's useless, so I've gone back to my BB Z10 for now.......... I will buy another Jolla soon as I do like the interface. When the code matures a little more, and some of the issues mentioned in here are fixed.
    No MMS support, and a bigger bolder font would be nice. Some of my own ambience creations result in a pale orange text that is difficult to read.
    Not being able to select different ringtones for contacts is something missing.
    I found that emails with cut & paste bits of office documents didn't display properly, and it didn't format text properly, so really long lines were not wrapped and not possible to read when enlarged.
    All this stuff works 100% on my BBZ10.
    I know that the Jolla is a new kid on the block, but these are some fundamental issues that need to be sorted quickly.
    And finally - the Jolla Store is difficult to browse, perhaps the search is too specific?
    Other than that, I loved my Jolla phone, and I will have another one soon!
  • andreibechetandreibechet
    238.00 KarmaPosts: 196Deckhand
    MMS support was just added :) (cannot say yet about the rest as well)
  • JollaTidesJollaTides
    517.00 KarmaPosts: 429Captain
    @andreibechet

    Updated to the latest release here with no issues - seems great so far. :-)
    Sail On!
    /
  • JollaTidesJollaTides
    517.00 KarmaPosts: 429Captain
    @rob_compton

    Sorry to hear about your accident! :-( The latest update seems to be really getting somewhere now so I'm sure you will be tempted back in the very near future. :-)

    Plus battery life and general performance of android layer is really outstanding compared with my old Z10.

    All that's left on my wishlist is more native apps, folder integration in app list and perhaps some more work on allowing android apps access to some phone hardware. Oh and some nice functional OH's would be the cherry on the icing!
    Sail On!
    /

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