Are you from this planet ? ? If then there’s hope. Thanks for sharing what can actually be pretty good ideas. Honestly I don’t believe the world is in anyways ready for a Jolla phone right now. Too much koolaid has been drunk. I have come to realize in order for your phone to be seen as anywhere near good it must:
1. Use iOS or Android.
2. Look like an iPhone or Samsung S-series.
3. Be heavily biased towards by nearly every tech blog/tech mag out there.
4. Access to over 800,000 redundant apps (all in the name of choice).
5. Have Instagram app, because it is the most important app out there right now.
So, unfortunately, if your phone carries no less than 5 out of the 5 features above, it is regarded by the highly paid, unbiased and expert tech blogs as D.O.A, crapware. there’s just not enough room for it. With that in mind, the rest of the tech world should forget phones altogether, as well as tablets and mobile OS’s (once you aren’t Google and Apple, who possess the only true birthrights to anything mobile) and turn to building the most advance fridges, stoves, maybe bicycles and toaster ovens. There just isn’t the room.
bq.The mobile framework will only officially support Android and iOS for the same functions.bq. So the mobile framework is only Apple and Google now ? Where does everyone come up with this stuff ?
Agreed, leave the carriers out, sell the device unlocked, let the users choose the carrier of their choice. If the carriers are not happy, just leave the business to someone else who will pick up the slack.
Ok, iPerson, the OS is based on MeeGo, which uses less resources than your average smartphone. Based on what quantitative research is there no place for another mobile OS ? Who died and made iOS and Android gods ? I welcome choice, if the rest of the planet doesn’t, it’s OK, there’s always a market for those who prefer to actually intelligently choose how their device will function.
Why did I not expect this reaction from followers on the Verge. By the way the USA is not one of their prime target markets for now, so it’s OK boys and girls, no need to feel threatened by the poor start-up. You’re all safe in the confines of your walled, and malware filled gardens, you really are. For those of us who actually like choice, the more the merrier.
Yip, of-course a Verge review is going to be heavily biased, comparing a start up with Apple, and Google. I can see the Verge giving the Jolla phone no more than 5.9 overall.
Been reading this board and others on the Nokia Lumia 925. I would like to urge any phone maker, please do not design a phone if you don’t or can’t put Instagram on it. Why ? Because Instagram on smartphones is even more important than actually making phone calls on it. No Instagram, no sale. Its so important to businessmen the world over. Do you know how many people are being fired daily for not bringing up Instagram in the board rooms ?
Outside what appears to be a hit and miss from Nokia, I will patiently await the announcement and arrival of Jolla Sailfish OS based phone. All other mobile OSes seem to be getting tired and old. None of them are keeping up with the pace of technological innovation. Everyone is still fussing like children in kindergarten over app counts, that’s a repulsively refreshing thought.
Personally Nokia dropped the ball on this one, I will be leaving WP for the bastard child of Nokia meego now Sailfish. Meanwhile the world can enjoy the fog of war of the OSes. Cheers !
Looks very interesting, however I’ll wait until the 20th to see what Jolla is bringing to the table. Nevertheless giving Jack his jacket Nokia has once again gone ahead with design. Should the camera be anything like the 808, I believe it will be one of the better smartphones of 2013. Cheers ! !
