A newbie's first month with Xperia X [feature request] [duplicate]
During the last 10 years I had iPhones most of the time, also an android phone and a Blackberry. I was quite happy especially with iPhone's functionality, but not with their pricing and not at all with the quasi duopoly of iOS and android that developed in the past years, so I decided to give Sailfish OS 2.1.3.7. not only a try on a second phone but a chance on my everyday phone.
The Sailfish X, Xperia X or whatever you may call it (Sony Xperia with Sailfish OS on it) worked quite well for me and I didn't encouter any problem that made it impossible for me to use it in my everyday life.
I'm not a smartphone user, who needs to install every available app. So the limited app store is not an issue for me, but the limited stock apps are more or less annoying and should be refined:
phone/sms: no selective call / sms blocking possible at all. You should at least be able to block anonymous calls and calls from certain numbers. It would be best to include also phone/sms white and black listing functionality according to a time table. So you could e.g. limit certain calls to workdays during office hours.
mms: mms functionality cannot be switched off i.e. mms apn can't be deleted.
Who still needs mms?But I would like to do so, since mms are not included in my subscription and abroad I even have to pay for receiving them. Other OS offer the option to turn off mms, why not SFOS?call/message notifications: you can't toggle them off one by one, which would be helpful.
camera: (auto-)focussing issue which could be quite easily resolved by manual focussing and focus lock, since there is a third party app on Jolla store that works better than the stock app in this respect
clock: timer allows to preset hours and minutes but no seconds. Why not?! // Alarm is way to loud in general.
browser: you can't choose search engines as you wish. It's limited to google, bing, yahoo and yandex. That's ridiculous for a project like SFOS IMHO.
notepad: not very useful, IMAP support would make it much better
wifi: extremely difficult to connect to a network with invisible SSID. Why can't you simply add a network manually?
bluetooth: I can connect to a BMW hands free, to Bose head phones an to an iMac - BUT: connections aren't stable and not reliable. Working bluetooth should be somewhere on top of the priority list IMHO.
calendar: Sometimes it's quite difficult to switch off an alarm, when the phone is in sleep mode. The alarm shows up and when I want to turn it off the alarm screen vanishes.
I found out, that for some reason and somehow SFOS Carddav partially deleted several of my around 1400 contacts. Sometimes one or two phone numbers were missing, sometimes an email-address. Those deleted contacts were contacts that I haven't used for quite a long time as well as contacts that I use all the time. I really don't see a rule, but for sure this is very annoying. That much annoying that I won't use SFOS Carddav until this is solved. I should add, that this might be an issue related to my Carddav provider mailbox.org, but I don't know, yet.
Very few good and working apps can be found on Jolla store, so that most people will have to rely on android apps and openrepos rpm. Android apps's permissions can't be toggled off one by one in 2.1.3.7 and people that are not tech savvy won't be able to judge, if an rpm on openrepos is potentially dangerous or not (apps are not already secure just because they are open source). I installed only two android apps and no openrepos rpms. Jolla should include safe openrepos rpms in their store IMHO.
I encountered problems concerning mobile network connection and a jolla specialist helped me within 3 days (!) with a fix by email. So this OS has bugs. Yes. But the devs are responsive and help you. Thumbs up.
My mobile subscription includes 1 GB data per month and until I switched to SFOS this was just enough data. With Sailfish OS my data consumption has definitely decreased. No conspiracy theory. To a certain extent it might be due to the fact, that I don't use iMessage/Threema for messaging anymore but SMS/Threema.
- my conclusion: I won't continue to use Xperia X as my first phone not because it lacks some functions that are essential to me, like call blocking, well focussing camera, but because data got lost (carddav). Unfortunately there is no Jolla feedback on this, so that I don't know if they intend to do sth about this. I'll wait for 2.1.4. and decide afterwards if I give it another try.
Same feeling here. Loving it most of the tine but sometimes it's a little bit frustrating. Don't need too much, but something practical for everyday use.
Juanxo ( 2017-12-16 19:12:40 +0200 )editWho needs MMS? I for one use it regularly, I'm sure others do to.
Otherwise you make a lot of good points which I agree with.
It's also pleasing to hear from someone like yourself and find you have found Sailfish at it's current development stage to generally meet your needs.
AlanBreen ( 2017-12-16 21:36:17 +0200 )editYou can install additional search engines from OpenRepos
Marzanna ( 2017-12-16 21:47:07 +0200 )editThere is also a pätsch for the alarm clock loudness - i installed it, works well. The webcat browser was just fine but it has lags because of some qt problrms i dont understand but because of the same reason they had to switch something in stock browser
NuklearFart ( 2017-12-17 11:23:35 +0200 )edit@AlanBreen Allright. My intention is not to prevent anyone from using MMS, but I would like to have the possibility to toggle it off. This is possible on other mobile OS, so why not on SFOS?
@Marzanna & @NuklearFart Yes, I know that there are hacks on openrepos, but I chose not to install them for the reasons mentioned above, i.e. the stock apps should be refined by Jolla themselves and not by third party, since they are part of the OS and secondly because not so tech savvy people cannot evaluate if third party rpm from unknown (not Jolla store) sources are save to install.
Loenneberga ( 2017-12-17 13:36:33 +0200 )edit