Poll: The Other Half Option 8 Contestant [answered]

give suggestions here on that what would be your favourite other half. Suggestion can be also "unrealistic" so no pressure even if it cannot be actually manufactured ;)

"can be also "unrealistic": Slideable OLED TOH: OLED on both sides, one side with a very responsive 6 fingers keyboard over the full size with fully transparent but non-flat surface to give a tactile indication for the borders of the individual keys (on request, i.e. screen may also be used for other purposes, when no keyboard is required -- I expect that an OLED keyboard would be thinner than a mechanical one). Of course, combined with a wireless charger and a "liquid" battery that fills all space left due to design restrictions. ("Liquid" battery, i.e. one that can be produced to fit into any form and does not need to be a compact cuboid.) Of course, the keyboard should also give tactile feedback for hits, e.g. via vibration.

PS: 10 finger typing would be preferred, but will not be possible with the Jolla size.

Foldable OLED TOH -- up to A4 size (or even larger). (That's what I am dreaming for notebooks for a long time already: Folding out the monitor several times and having an A2 (or larger) size monitor with probably 20 Megapixels at least.)

@wirew0rm Says: "DIY-TOH for makers would be nice :-) simplest implementation would be just a spacious TOH with stable contacts to i2c, interrupt and power. a little bit fancier could include a pcb, maybe some arduino and power supply on it, this would also protect the phone at least a little bit."

@hana Says: "Deep Blue TOH with stereo speakers"

@viskari Says: "Gamepad TOH"

Definitely an OLED or eInk OH, depending on what could be best implemented in terms of compatibility with Sailfish. My preference is eInk since I think it could bring additional features and functions to the Jolla (if main LCD screen can be kept off while using the eInk one), but otherwise OLED.

@Artem Says: "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 photo/video."

@jgr, Slideable OLED TOH (unfortunately, I cannot edit my post any longer): Whether OLED or eInk, something that preserves power. The keyboard would need to be pressure sensitive (nonetheless: no mechanical parts), not just touch sensitve (because you keep your fingers on the keyboard).

High-performance camera with at least 5x optical zoom, a wide aperture lens and a large sensor, possibly with embedded image processing capabilities to obtain lower pixel count images with lower noise through downsampling like the Nokia 808. The hard part is transferring the image data to the main half in a decent time.

my ultimate TOH would be a "dock"(for everyday use but also travel):miniHDMI output,gpu chip if need,USB 3.0 host with 2-4 ports,SDXC reader (for camera),dual sim,microusb power in (for the extra power needed eg.for external usb drive),fold-out support to make jolla stand up (like the surface pro 2)

TOH for outdoor sports. New sensors like thermometer, barometer and altimeter and additional battery capacity. All this combined for example to MeeRun to collect and store data. It goes without saying that also a rugged casing is needed, preferably one with optional bicycle mounting.

@Venty Says:"I'm waiting for the Leningradcowboys Other Half with exclusive ringtones etc."

@teun Says: 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.....Continues below

it could have a standardized layout maybe some kind of standard could be developed in cooperation with the phone blox guys (@teun)

I want a docking bay TOH with battery charging and plugs for connecting to external audio devices (yes, I know I could just use the 3,5mm plug on top of the phone but the point is being able to just unplug the phone from the bay without detaching any cables).

In an ideal world this could also allow external keyboard, mouse, storage devices and display but, especially the display, seems unlikely, based on this: https://together.jolla.com/question/2353/theotherhalf-i-want-desktop-dock-otherhalf-external-display-keyboard-mice-audio-charger-etc/

In an ideal world, a projector TOH would be nice too but I suppose it is equally impossible as the external display, and for exactly the same reason.

As a third option, I would love to see a sports TOH that would allow (wired/BT) bio-monitoring equipment to be connected to it (heart rate, body temperature etc) with data recording etc. Be afraid, Suunto, be very afraid!

A Steambox other half which also slides into a Moga Gamepad type other other half when you do not have it docked to a vidock. Has 2 lrg mem cards to seperate mobile and Steam games. TOOH slides over that and can be moga or Jolla made. Inlay a line of glowpaint where other half meets. Port steam app.

Eink display that has wysips and LiFi. Wysips charges phone & provides fast LiFi connection and becomes part of mesh networking app like Open Garden that is cross platform. Sailfish version of app is integrated with KDE connect app. Yeah Linux! Eink displays performance, charging strength, etc..

A steampunk other half that a sensordrone can slide into and act as a kickstand. TOH has all kinds of tiny tubes and valves but really has a few additional sensors in it like CO2. Port sensordrone apps to Sailfish, data is accessible by KDE connect.

A custom wood OH half with inlays that comes with a liquipel treatment for phone + TOH. Could be company logo that glows inlaid with transparent inlace plus glow powder from glowpaint to the color of your preference. Use purple heart wood, it is so hard you can mill tiny details in it.

Can you please increase the character length allowed for this? You're asking us to convince you on our other half ideas and then you Twitter cut our "sales pitch," it is quite annoying. How am I supposed to form the picture in your head. It's like, "convince me you're handsome in 20 seconds. Go!"

Ultimate TOH: eInk display (with physical buttons) + 2nd SIM slot + IR transmitter + NFC tag (programmable)

Just as a general comment, you can write comments longer than the xxx characters left says. Just see my first comment which, with the link included, is 555 characters long.

I bet you didn't even try. :)

@typo: I had to compact my proposal as well due to limitation, no I didn't try to submit longer idea :) I'll edit my idea eventually to make it more readable, thanks for the hint

A music studio TOH, with full 1/4 in/out, equalizer and apps to process and record audio.

A tablet TOH with extra battery and a large screen, much like the padphone

@PyroDevil Says: Stackable other halfes! ;) Then everyone has as much functionality as it fits into their pockets or handbags or trolleys. ;)

@t0mps0 Says: hi-q radio

A car TOH: I just want to plug my phone in place of my auto radio… use it for listening music, GPS, phone…

Please keep them coming! This is getting exciting. Thank you all for your contributions and lets really show the world where innovation in mobile comes from, people like you!

A Tripod TOH!

A simple standard all-plastic TOH to be mounted on standard tripods just like any other camera. Snap on this tripod TOH, enter camera mode and start streaming or filling up your 64GB card with nice and stable images. I'd love that! :D

For bonus points add a proper microphone to it!

Above mentioned tripod could have a flash hotshoe for shutter sync of additional strobes :)

"DIY Hot Dog" - a stackable other half shield that goes in between the phone and your usual other half. It would give you a small side connector and include a breakout board for prototyping fun stuff with the I/O pins.

Universal mount TOH - use the Jolla as input and control device for all sorts of DIY or professional projects - like home automation interface, home cinema theater control, vehicle diagnostic interface... Providing different standard interfaces like Ethernet, CAN-Bus, EIB ...

An OH with :

• a rollable AMOLED in 16:9 format (terminal in vertical position) on tripod supported with a last generation pico-projector 3 DLP (VNC compliant)
• a laser keyboard/trackpad displayed on the office
• "Minority Report" air gesture recognition

Hifi audio TOH, with 2 very-low-distortion 10-W speakers, SPDIF, and possibly some surround effect like 2-speaker Bose systems. And, of course, an adequate battery for stand-alone operation.

An OH that has:

• QWERTY Keyboard
• Additional battery
• E-Ink screen on the other side so that reading PDFs is easier and consumes less battery.
• In addition to E-Ink screen there could be a switch to turn completely off the regular screen and use E-ink screen only
• Stereo speakers

A wallet TOH: leather cover with pockets for cards (plain or RFID) or stickers. A small inner pocket could contain an NFC sticker with some data, like the current TOH but removable.

Range finder TOH. With a laser range finder and camera lens in the phones length direction, so you can see a reticle at the screen where the rangefinder points and of course distance to the object.

Developer TOH, including an NFC tag with a set of great tools and apps to study, tweak & easily UNLOCK the phone. i2c & power connection ports visible, so there would be no need to remove the TOH while developing with these.

Futuristic TOH with holographic projection capabilities: Real time holographic video calls with friends, "live" videos... you name it. Very "unrealistic" but exciting.

@roglio Says: 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).

Since they did it for the iPhone... An OH with a satellite telephone, managed via the main half UI.

@Flight406 wrote (+1 vote when moved here from an answer):

A handle to charge the phone like the radios in Africa. It would have a little handle that is normally folded totally away and securely clipped into TOH. Once you run out of battery and no powerplug in reach (read airport!) you can pull out the handle and thus charge your phone and win over boredom. Geek admiration by all other smartphone victims out of battery guaranteed.

433Mhz transmitter to control lights and other dumb appliances, with cheap adaptors like these http://www.hkvstar.com/images/480_2_418.jpg

See ninjablocks project for inspiration.

My proposal is for a Fisrt Aid/Medical OH: heart rate and respiration rate (accelerometer mems e.g. muRata), blood pressure, IR oximeter and IR body temperature, blood glucose and all the other sensors good for medical matters. Some of the sensors above are directly I2C managed

TOH with braille reader, maybe even with http://tactustechnology.com/ technology

Damn, @gordon_pcb_designer was faster than me, I thought of plugable medical devices, like e.g. blood sugar monitoring device or other kinds of bloodtests.

extra touch buttons for cursor/game navigation like "shoulder buttons" on game controllers

Presentation controller TOH: includes a lazer pointer and next - previous HW buttons, maybe also an extra battery. Attaching TOH applies an ambiance and starts an app which connects to my PC (e.g. as BT keyboard) and let me control the presentation on PC. The app shows my notes on the phone screen.

@eric: Can you please use the (limited) formatting options available to present each proposal in a paragraph of its own? (While writing: One empty line in between entry paragraph and list; each number starting after a carriage return on a line of its own -- and it would have been a neatly layout.)

@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.

@jgr: apologies for the formatting. My main concern was to get all the content initially posted as an answer and the formatting got lost in the way. I'm curious to know if you have the means to actually improve it by editing it? I reckon you should have enough karma to see the edit link under each comment...

@eric: While I have sufficient karma to edit questions and answers, there is not chance to edit someone else's comment. And even you cannot edit it any longer. But I will add a new comment in which I will format your entry "correctly", see below.

@eric asked to reformat his comment:

@10basetom says

1. Dual-speaker TOH that sounds as good as the HTC One's BoomSound
2. Slide-out keyboard TOH that types as well as a Blackberry (can be portrait or landscape)
3. Touch cover keyboard TOH (like a mini Surface Touch Cover that can lock into place)
4. Gamepad TOH (like Logitech PowerShell)
5. Solar charger TOH 6. Induction charger TOH (Qi-compatible)
6. Extended battery TOH
7. Camera TOH with optics that can compete with the Nokia 1020
8. Photo printer TOH
9. Card scanner TOH
10. Pico projector TOH
11. DAC/headphone amp TOH (like a built-in FiiO!)
12. aptX TOH so you can stream CD-quality music from your phone to Bluetooth speakers
13. Media extender TOH with HDMI out, optical and S/PDIF out, etc.
14. Wi-Fi Direct or Chromecast-type TOH so you can mirror your phone on the TV
15. Cell signal amplifier TOH to improve reception (like Wilson SignalBoost)
16. MIMO TOH to increase Wi-Fi performance
17. IR blaster TOH to turn your Jolla phone into a univeral remote
18. E-ink display TOH for RSS feeds, notifications, reading ebooks, etc. (like YotaPhone)
19. Hardware encryption TOH with physical keypad (like Carbide)
20. Palmprint reader TOH so you can unlock your phone simply by holding it in your palm
21. User controllable LED light TOH (like Hue) where the entire back acts like a soft lamp, and can also have a strobe feature for emergencies
22. Magnetic TOH to easily attach your phone to the fridge
23. Mirror TOH (you can never look too good)
24. SSD TOH (much cheaper per GB than buying a 64 GB MicroSD card)
25. 89-in-1 memory card reader TOH (you can never support enough formats ;))

@jgr Thanks a lot for reformatting! Excellent collaboration :) (I took the liberty to delete my ugly original...)

Credit card purse: push a credit card or an access control card, driving licence, passport through a slot into a slightly higher TOH. Eject the card by moving the card through a finger window in TOH: small example picture

I'm not sure if it is matter of TOH, but I would like capability of amplify weak WiFi signal. It can be made by extra antenna build in TOH or connector for external WiFi antenna. Similar can be made also for GSM antenna.

A rubber TOH with magnets inside so you can put the Jolla everywhere you need it, be it the fridge or in your car or....

An TOH that functions as a protective cover for the phone, such as the one mentioned here: http://forum.jollausers.com/jolla-phone/jolla-accessories/

The protective cover would have an integrated oled display (e.g. showing the clock and event icons, and an additional high capacity battery built-in.

TOH with a Music Visualiser providing various visualisation effects. Including a SquareWear 2.0 Arduino Board should provide more functionality e.g temperature sensor. TOH color can change based on the ambient temperature.

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 awsome, I really like the wakeup light idea!

Extension with USB dongle that can be hidden flat in the case, taken out if necessary, connected to laptop or PC and used to boot PC/laptop from phone - or, to put it other way, boot the phone through PC, use its system, write documents, browse internet etc.

@Richie Cotton Says: 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.

I'd like a cover with integrated touch pen.

can be also "unrealistic" Other Half → can be "not yet realistic" Other Half → Nokia's almost six year old "The Morph Concept" (YouTube video) would be really nice, :-D
but I'd settle for a larger fold-out screen, to begin with, similar to @jgr's suggestion (3rd comment from top) above.

Other Half with connectors for regular AA (or AAA) batteries. Yes, it will be bulkier, but this Other Half will mainly be for "desperate" situations (or, say, as an emergency option when trekking).

Optional: Built-in solar charger for those batteries.
(Could even be combined with @Flight406's handle-crancked dynamo. :-) )

Hi, today I tought about one thing that really excited me... We need to revert the ambience and TOH relation, I mean, the current availabe TOH changes the ambience, but we need a "transparent" led powered TOH that changes when we change the ambience!!! Unlimited personatlization :D. Can you imagine?

What about TOH with a vibration transducer able to convert vibrations into energy to recharge the battery? Especially cool for runners who could listen to their favourite music without any concern (@phle would appreciate this :) )

@Gianluca - Hm, yes, if it's possible to output enough to charge the battery, then why not?
Either as a separate TOH,
or bundled with the above "emergency TOH" (AA/AAA batteries, solar charger, and handle-crancked dynamo). :-)

TOH with a 15cm usb cable that you can pull out when needed, and an extra battery. It could add 6mm to the thickness and fit a 3Ah battery and the cable. The cable is permanently connected

Although I must admit that it's not very exciting compared to the awesome ideas above, my number one TOH would at the very least have a 2nd SIM slot. Maybe as some sort of 'Business TOH', which in addition to a SIM holds sensitive data, access credentials, perhaps also a micro-SD slot, ...? This allows you to truly leave work at work, or personal things at home when you go out drinking/hiking/traveling/rafting/chooseanyactivityofyourlikingwhereyourphonemightbelostorstolen.

TOH with flip-cover to protect the screen when not used. The flap would be permanently attached to TOH and it should come over either from top or bottom so both left- and righthanded can use the phone with this TOH.

TOH with small (or big) LED VU reacting to surrounding sounds. Either use those oldschool barleds or make a small (O)LED screen to draw the bars on.

this suggestion is late to the game, but here we go:

An Extended Other Half:

This Other Half is approximately the same height as a regular Other Half, but three times as wide (about an A5 in total). The leftmost third contains an extendable "sleigh", and the middle and right thirds are covered with one square-ish screen, internal necessary electronics, external buttons and connectors, and necessary extended battery.

Pull out the "sleigh", attach your Jolla, and put the "sleigh" back in (there will need to be some sort of "lock", to prevent the first half Jolla to "slip out" by itself). When it has clicked into place, it reboots (if your Jolla was on (probably with some sort of remorse-timed question - reboot/leave on/turn off); otherwise you'll need to power The Extended Other Half on, using the Extended Other Half's power button).
You now have a "tablet of sorts"!
Yes, the bezel from the first half Jolla will be visible, but The Extended Other Half's software could either take advantage of it (operate it from the first half Jolla, and show things on the square rightmost-two-thirds), or there could be a sort of prism built-in giving the illusion of a continouous screen (but would probably lead to a rather narrow viewing angle - might be useful for viewing films, though).

It will probably need some sort of built-in kick-stand, and (preferably) stereo-speakers, USB-port(s?), and SD-card-reader, and extra internal RAM, as well.

(Why a "sleigh"? Because it otherwise will be too tricky to remove the first half Jolla, or (not being fastened god enough) too much of a risk that the first half Jolla will fall off.
An option would be to have a Halfway Half for the first Jolla, with all necessary connectors, that you then put together with the rest of the screen (the Extended Half's), and then click-on one unifying Other Half covering the whole back of the first Jolla together with the Extended Other Half, but electronics-wise, I think the "sleigh" is better (and no risk of accidentally losing the Halfway Half, and ending up with useless electronics needing spare parts).)