Poll: The Other Half of your dreams!

asked 2014-01-19 17:04:33 +0300

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updated 2014-02-08 00:33:09 +0300

TimTTK

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If your new here and want to know more about polling here in Together, see this first: https://together.jolla.com/question/16697/together-howto-polling-in-together/

The idea of this poll is very simple. Which "special" or normal other half would you like to have the most in Jolla if these other half's would be available on shop right now?

There will be 8 different Other Half options available for voting. It could be also called an "unofficial competition" for favourite Other Half.

UPDATE!

The Other Half contest for Other Half Option 8 Contestant has ended and the winner chosen by Marc Dillon (@Marc) is:

@mgbler

with Ambience Light The Other Half idea!

Ambience Light TOH: Integrated fiberglass combined with LED so that the whole TOH or parts of it glow in adjustable colors. Could also be used as WakeUp Light

@mgbler 's Ambience Light TOH idea is also available for voting in this poll as the option number eight!

Thank you for everyone in participating and please remember to vote for your favourite from the current eight different options available.

For general discussion I made a separate answer box "Chatbox" where you can add own comments regarding different other half's found at the bottom of the page.

For this poll to be honest, choose only one option from eight. No cheating!

Thanks.

These options will be wiki posts so no karma is awarded from it.

Now start voting please! What is the other half of your dreams?

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extended battery for option 6?

Cosmic_Kakapo ( 2014-01-19 17:34:19 +0300 )edit

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Dual-sim card ability maybe for option 8 ? As mentionned here : Dual-Sim

occirol ( 2014-01-19 18:50:45 +0300 )edit

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Moved from the voting options: In order to be practical, the physical QWERTY keyboard TOH would most likely also require that the phone can always be operated in landscape mode. Just having a keyboard would not be enough on its own.

typo ( 2014-01-19 19:18:18 +0300 )edit

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how about a more rugged TOH, probably made of hard rubber? At least one with a durable and non-slippery coating.

about full keyboard TOH: this would be nice indeed, but it has to be very compact. The phone isn't the smallest by default design and to my preference a sleek and light overall appearance of the device would outweigh the benefits of a full keyboard.

lk ( 2014-01-19 19:18:36 +0300 )edit

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I would really love the dual-SIM option as well - especially if it was a DSA (Dual SIM Active), meaning that both SIM cards can be active and connected to their respective networks at the same time.

typo ( 2014-01-19 19:22:08 +0300 )edit

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answered 2014-01-27 19:09:24 +0300

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updated 2014-01-27 19:09:24 +0300

Richie Cotton
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Pocket NAS Other Half

An other half with two (or, even better, four) full size SD card slots and RAID support.

NAS boxes are great for sharing files between all the devices in your house or office. The problem is that they are too big to be portable. Having NAS built into your phone means that you can take it anywhere.

SD cards currently range up to 128GB capacity, allowing 384GB from four cards using RAID 5 (or 512GB without RAID).

A great use case would be streaming movies from your phone when you visit a friend's house.

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answered 2014-01-26 21:27:36 +0300

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updated 2014-02-09 10:36:02 +0300

eric

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It could be the one I've suggest here https://together.jolla.com/question/19328/other-half-car-holder-idea/...

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answered 2014-01-23 14:18:21 +0300

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updated 2014-02-09 10:35:48 +0300

eric

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... if we could have a something such as a micro-PCIe interface implemented with pogo-pins (aside the very low bandwidth i2c) into the next version of the jolla smartphone, things could get more interested as we could think of attaching high bandwidth dedicated hardware, such as graphics / camcorder / scopes / chess-engines etc. :-)

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Like a vidock? http://www.villageinstruments.com/tiki-index.php?page=ViDock

aironeousb ( 2014-01-27 23:09:32 +0300 )edit

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answered 2014-01-23 00:47:29 +0300

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updated 2014-02-08 00:41:12 +0300

eric

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@Amelot says: "The Other Half that I would like to build ? Remember the film the Matrix, the Nokia 8110 ? What if your Jolla opened up like that on both the top and bottom ? There obviously certain issues to work out like does it answer directly, or is there a window so you can screen your calls. Push a button and the sliders open from the the middle and shalck! It seems to me that the mechanics would need to be on the back side to move the covers. To keep it simple just a cover for the lens on the back as well. The other issue I see with this is not to inhibit the use of the swipe from the bottom an top edge. The screen is not at the edge of the top or bottom, regardless this would have to be taken into account in the design. Otherwise when open it would be twice as long as normal, and would also be slightly thicker."

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answered 2014-01-22 12:46:52 +0300

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updated 2014-01-22 12:46:52 +0300

phle

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A very simple The Other Half (TOH) add-on, that is neat if you're clumsy:
An otherwise regular TOH, but with a small loop where you can fasten a lanyard.

(A lanyard with Jolla logos could be included with it.)

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As suggested and discussed in here: https://together.jolla.com/question/13475/hardware-provide-hole-for-a-leash

I don't think TOH would be the right mounting point for a lanyard.

Milo ( 2014-01-22 12:56:31 +0300 )edit

@Milo - Thank you for the link!

(Well, you should probably not lanyard-catapult your Jolla, but a lanyard could be just what is needed when you notice that you are on your way to drop it.)

phle ( 2014-01-22 13:47:15 +0300 )edit

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answered 2014-01-22 12:22:42 +0300

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updated 2014-01-23 17:09:21 +0300

eric

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Maybe duplicate but it will be very nice to have an OH with a sliding gamepad with both cross and analog sticks. The analog sticks must be two and maybe realized with touchpads (for flatness).

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The steam controller shows nicely how well touchpads work for gaming. Could the gameTOH be done without the slide somehow?

vattuvarg ( 2014-01-25 09:30:49 +0300 )edit

I was thinking to the sony xperia play smartphone.

roglio ( 2014-01-26 12:07:48 +0300 )edit

The Moga game pad exists for Android phones http://www.mogaanywhere.com/controllers/propower . A other half that has hinges and flips over on both sides and locks into place that resembles the Moga Game pad for iphone might be possible. I envision something that both serves the purpose of the Moga but also has 2 pockets for your memory cards separating your Android and Steam games and also works with your steambox.

aironeousb ( 2014-01-27 23:07:44 +0300 )edit

Steampad-like controller will be very nice.

gunt3er ( 2014-02-26 12:31:11 +0300 )edit

Dirk and Kimmoli are working on a new keyboard other half with switchable keyboard so you can attach a gamepad to it as well. http://www.jollausers.com/2014/09/2nd-revision-of-qwerty-keyboard-otherhalf-demoed/

Toxip ( 2014-09-29 11:41:56 +0300 )edit

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answered 2014-01-22 12:11:25 +0300

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updated 2014-01-23 14:54:25 +0300

TimTTK

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An OH with extra battery and radio capability in order to connect to small RF devices with sensors like temp, humidity, etc. There are a lot of small RF modules with arduino compatibility (i.e. NRF24LE1 NRF24L01+MCU).

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The Sensordrone already exists with Android apps for it http://www.sensorcon.com/sensordrone/ it is only missing a CO2 sensor that could be in the other half. A other half that a sensordrone can slip into and act as a kickstand and can be detached might be an answer here or even asking that company to make the sensordrone in a different shape.

aironeousb ( 2014-01-27 22:58:12 +0300 )edit

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answered 2014-01-21 13:41:02 +0300

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updated 2014-02-08 22:32:04 +0300

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Option 8: Ambience Light TOH: Integrated fiberglass combined with LED so that the whole TOH or parts of it glow in adjustable colors. Could also be used as WakeUp Light

This Other Half idea is the winner idea of Poll: The Other Half Option 8 Contestant by @mgbler and was selected by Marc Dillon himself (@Marc)

Feel free to vote this idea if you like it the most!

Thanks.

Original post here: https://together.jolla.com/question/17681/poll-the-other-half-option-8-contestant/#post-id-25813

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I'd love to have an OH that changes its colour to the ambience set and would flash when receiving a call. As an idea I love it and would probably get one, but I do need a HW keyboard.

fasza2mobile ( 2014-02-08 03:49:12 +0300 )edit

This should have been labeled "cheapest and fastest to produce other half option that we did not think of" because that is what it ended up being. I'm so stupid for thinking/imagining that that would not be the end result. It's just a baby company so any other ideas should have been skunkworks tagged.

aironeousb ( 2014-02-09 07:55:22 +0300 )edit

@aironeousb "[...] cheapest and fastest to produce [...]" which is not a bad thing, is it? :-) I'm very happy this option will get considered. There were many good ideas in the contest, many of them sophisticated. As Jolla grows, their capability to expand their hardware portfolio will hopefully grow too... <3

mgbler ( 2014-02-12 19:33:47 +0300 )edit

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answered 2014-01-21 11:50:28 +0300

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updated 2014-01-22 10:23:51 +0300

eric

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How about a Phone blox like TOH where the OH is a fram with hardware connectors and layout to ad different modules depending on your personal needs. Better camera module, speaker, battery , soundchip, video output, solar pannel. it could have a standardized layout.. maybe some kind of standard could be developed in cooperation with the phone blox guys

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your idea is submitted to OH contest, but you can remove it from there if you don't want to take part in "option 8 contest"

TimTTK ( 2014-01-21 11:58:30 +0300 )edit

thats fine, better even

teun ( 2014-01-21 17:22:18 +0300 )edit

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answered 2014-01-19 19:36:49 +0300

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updated 2014-01-19 19:38:05 +0300

TimTTK

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Chat box regarding other half's is here: use comments to answer

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What option would you like to have as option 8 other half for candidate?

TimTTK ( 2014-01-19 20:06:34 +0300 )edit

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toh gamepad, e-ink screen, toh android unit..not sure what i mean by that but sorta like a dedicated android other half to separate that os from jolla, guess it doesn´t work like that..

viskari ( 2014-01-19 21:05:04 +0300 )edit

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A better camera (+ bigger battery to make good use of the extra depth necessary for the bigger sensor).

idiallo ( 2014-01-19 22:47:08 +0300 )edit

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Travel-oriented otherhalf that I would put on when leaving for airport. Ideal combo would be extra battery, 2nd SIM card slot, eInk display for boarding pass and/or reading books, ebook reader, offline maps/navigation apps bundled in, maybe a better lens/microphone for travel photos/videos.

Artem ( 2014-01-19 23:05:34 +0300 )edit

There might be problems with OH's having multiple features to be commercially available though since they would be tailored to suit persons own preferences. However that would be also the ultimate other half of dreams too!

TimTTK ( 2014-01-19 23:48:56 +0300 )edit

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