What will your next phone be? [answered]

asked 2016-03-16 15:59:50 +0300

Conrad
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My Jolla phone is showing its age these days: the battery is failing, a third party spare (Cameron Sino) that I bought doesn't work brilliantly (possibly it was loose: been better the last few days since I jammed it in with some paper), and generally the phone struggles with modern web sites and apps - although its built-in basic features all still work as well as ever.

What phones are you looking at as replacements for your Jolla? Is there a modern phone which runs Sailfish well? Looking at the Cyanogen compatibility matrix, many of the models listed are a few years old, and compatibility is patchy. Are you looking at the Ubuntu phone? Etc.

I'm quite attracted by the Sony Z series: powerful, waterproof, has an impressive compact model, and Sony seem to have an open source support policy of sorts; older models at least run Cyanogen though I'm not sure about the current ones. Very interested in dual SIM, but their open source layer, and of course Sailfish, don't support that.

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i think that the current official sfos phones which would be supported for sure from jolla are the intex and the fairphone. Others are more or less ported one, and not expected to be fully supported at the moment...

cemoi71 ( 2016-03-16 16:30:35 +0300 )edit

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I own a OnePlus X with 3GB RAM. But I dislike poor android. I hope the port of Sailfish will work soon (main camera, head phone etc, and android support) yes, hardware of my jolla is old, camera lost sharpness and green color is to weak. But 1GB RAM is the main reason.

torti17 ( 2016-03-16 18:29:21 +0300 )edit

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Lots of Jolla users have probably already moved on.... I have.

FJVA ( 2016-04-05 22:43:55 +0300 )edit

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answered 2016-03-18 10:27:35 +0300

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Lack of HW is a huge problem at the moment. So no idea. FP2 is huge, Turing is huge and (seems to be) vaporwear and the intex one is not something i'd buy either (size). And to add to the above jolla isn't in a position to develop a new phone.

SFOS deserves nice HW. :/

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What about Nexus 5/4 community ports?

codeandcreate ( 2016-03-18 11:00:53 +0300 )edit

No. I'd prefer something Xperia Z5 compact sized with official support.

ApB ( 2016-03-18 14:29:57 +0300 )edit

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answered 2016-03-16 18:02:27 +0300

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I believe and hope it will be the Tuning-phone for me at least. I would like to see Fairphone2 as well as a real choice if there will be Android support! As much as I think a tablet is only usefull at home for reading articles, I'm still sad Jolla tablet project did not happen :-( So I'm excitingly looking forward to see & own a Turing-phone!

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Turing Phone or Tuning phone?

malk4ever ( 2016-03-17 10:14:56 +0300 )edit

@malk4ever Turing Phone by Turing Robotic Industries

krs ( 2016-03-17 10:41:36 +0300 )edit

Thought so ;) Thx for the info, I'll take a look at this one.

malk4ever ( 2016-03-17 11:57:35 +0300 )edit

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answered 2016-03-16 18:16:06 +0300

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i will go for intex, its the cheapest option

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If dev mode works and the partner space can be deactivated definitely worth a try - or I'll have a deeper look on the African one ...

elastic ( 2016-03-16 20:12:32 +0300 )edit

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If I could get one I'd do the day it comes out.

Giacomo Di Giacomo ( 2016-03-17 18:58:06 +0300 )edit

@giacomo-di-giacomo I would strongly recommend to wait until someone can confirm that important functionality is available. I expect there to be no developer mode and instead loads of services which only make sense in india (if they make sense at all). And I certainly don't expect that Intex will make it easy to circumvent their branding.

Proceed with care!

DieUnwucht ( 2016-03-17 22:31:08 +0300 )edit

I don't mind about services and I don't want to circumvent branding. Sure the absence of developer mode would be an issue, but why should it not be there? Every Android phone has it.

Giacomo Di Giacomo ( 2016-03-18 09:59:15 +0300 )edit

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answered 2016-03-17 19:01:57 +0300

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The first damn thing that runs SFOS with real Android support I can get my hands on. Or, in the case my Jolla dies or cannot run an app I need (whichever comes first) before that day, I am currently oriented towards the Zopo Speed 8. By the way, I remember back in 2013 Zopo announced they would have supported SFOS. Sadly this did not happen...

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I know you are aware of this, but I'll leave it here for others who don't know about it and are in similar situation: https://together.jolla.com/question/130868/do-you-want-to-buy-the-new-intex-aquafish-from-india/

avhakola ( 2016-03-17 21:50:53 +0300 )edit

sfdroid looks also nice... if alien dalvik won't be supported on for example fairphone 2 but sfdroid (look at nexus 4/5 port) runs, i would buy it, i think :)

codeandcreate ( 2016-03-18 09:59:07 +0300 )edit

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answered 2016-03-16 19:59:26 +0300

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I am using now Oneplus One 64GB although I do not like insecure Android with bad GUI. Sailfish is more intuitive and contains real multitasking. Waiting for enough good Sailfish port for Oneplus One with working camera and Android apps support.

For new phone I would like to buy Intex Aquafish (if coming available to Europe) or Fairphone 2 although it is very expensive because I like the idea of this phone. Of course it would be a nice surprise if Jolla could release new phone or tablet model (10" please) in the future.

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@Vinder Do not mention a rope in the house of a hung man..

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answered 2016-03-26 20:57:30 +0300

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updated 2016-03-27 14:18:26 +0300

As I prepare to reset my phone to factory settings and return it for the fourth time . . . . . . what I do know is I won't shell out any more on hardware provided by Jolla....... but I am also not prepared to 'go back' to android after SFOS. Now I never thought I'd hear myself say this, but after buying a cheap (nokia 635) windows phone, the OS in and of itself, is actually not bad, I always liked nokias hardware, but that's not a good example, and I dislike MS's spyware, but as a backup second phone, it's been OK. I also recently upgraded that to a Lumia 535, which again, is actually pretty decent, and 'another Jolla' would need to be sporting a 5'' screen and not less, definitely better than the current Jolla screen, and has already been mentioned, more RAM is required. If windows 8.1 or whatever it is can run as well as it does on that 535, I can only imagine how well SFOS could run on something decent. I wouldn't buy an Intex Aquafish, for the simple reason that if it goes faulty, India's a damn site more of a PITA to return it to than Finland is! So no, that's out of the question. Ubuntu phone? No......... it's in even more of an infancy stage than SFOS is, although they're throwing it out there on some decent hardware now (Meizu) and at least the BQ's are getting the name out there for the world to see.... Then you have the Fairphone2, looks great, just too expensive for me at the moment, and bad experience with this hardware is making me cautious about throwing good money at a 'concept' again, but in fairness, currently this appears to be the best of the bunch, unless......... the Turing Phone throws the gauntlet down at the same sort of money, or less, no one seems to know, but that looks the tastiest to me hardware & looks wise. All I know is SFOS needs to be out there on far more hardware, it certainly deserves to be, and it needs something doing about the apps situation, before it gets a good kicking from Ubuntu, or dare I utter it, Windows, and ends up paling into insignificance as 'that linux mobile project' that used to be around.

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Windows is dead and Ubuntu will forever remain a nerd OS unless it gets Android support. There's not much point in a smartphone without apps for almost everybody out there.

Giacomo Di Giacomo ( 2016-03-28 16:50:52 +0300 )edit

" There's not much point in a smartphone without apps for almost everybody out there. " Well if like I am, you're using a Jolla phone then you're already using a phone that's not offering apps for almost everybody out there. Satnav app ? email app ? That's just two cos i cant be ar*d typing the long list of apps we don't have, meanwhile, the windows you claim is dead, has them all, as the americans like to say, go figure. My phone is due to arrive back tomorrow, I'll see how long this one lasts, and I'm having a bet here that this time it'll have been repaired and not replaced as everyone seems to say they're always 'out of stock'. Meanwhile I haven't missed it the same this time as I did the last 3 other occasions I sent it back, it seems having to live with a windows phone has been less of a trial than when I had to make do with an Android phone, never thought I'd hear myself say that as a Linux fan of many years but . . . . . . . . . . . . well, true story . . . . : /

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answered 2016-03-31 00:16:11 +0300

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On my second Jolla phone, and when this one is life expired (through me dropping it or battery life), I'll get something with a great camera and a screen I can see in daylight. Ideally it will have SFOS factory installed, but I miss my N8 and I want to get back to that level of camera quality and daylight screen visibility. After this time I'd like to see Sailfish stepping up on hardware choice. I might not wait much longer. To be honest the Honor 7 looks good right now :/

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answered 2016-04-03 10:21:15 +0300

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Apple 6S+ Great device! Everything just works..... which is nice for a change. Gives me the E90 feeling actually. Screen gets less smudgy, smudge could be a draw back of the swipe only approach; or just a quality thing.

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answered 2016-04-03 16:24:56 +0300

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When my Jolla phone will die (and there are some disturbing signs lately), I will have to make a hard choice. I would love to stay with SFOS (even with the inferior v. 2.0 UI)

SFOS phone
Jolla phone is outdated (SFOS on it is slow, but maybe it's just that I never made a factory reset, just regularly updated the OS), and its price is high. Higher price is ok, but dim screen, bad camera, little RAM, slow CPU are not.
Fairphone - A bit too expensive for a phone without official SFOS support. Big.
Intex - Partner spaces?!? No, thanks. Besides, hardware-wise it looks too much like the Jolla phone, which is too slow from my experience.
Fairphone with official SFOS support and Alien Dalvik seems the best choice, as I fear there won't be another SFOS phone from Jolla or "Jolla Hardware".
Non SFOS phone.
iPhone SE with its 4inch screen and modern internals. Will match my iPad and MacBook (as Jolla Tablet didn't happen). I won't buy an Android phone because I don't like Android. I wished for more native SFOS apps (Instagram, Facebook, Whatsapp, Skype etc.) to get rid of Alien Dalvik, but... They are in the same parallel reality as the Jolla tablet and new Jolla phone. So, iOS is another logical choice.
Windows Phone - the new underdog. Shiny phones that lack apps, will be at least familiar to my SFOS experience.

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4 inch would be the ideal dimension for SFOS imho. Let's say the format of the ipod touch. iPod touch would actually be the ideal SFOS phone!

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answered 2016-04-07 09:07:19 +0300

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Turing phone as and when it appears Aquafish will make a good runaround phone too magic combo

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