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2015-08-12 11:13:32 +0300
Supposedly I'm not allowed to start my own thread about this, how extraordinary. Shame, that means I won't be hanging out much at TJC. I was considering upping my presence much more, & gradually becoming much more of a contributor/helper. Anyway, here's what I had in my original thread...
Originally I had asked 2 Jolla employees this Qn directly in a non-official site:
You guys should srsly consider
making your next phone phablet size
i.e. approx. 5.7". There's a tonne of
Galaxy Note neckbeards who are about
to be alienated from Samsung over the
next 12mth. Samsung has decided to go
the "Apple way" & remove mSD,
removable battery, & also go with a
more premium but fragile
build-quality.
Thanks to your Tablet efforts, you
would be much better prepared for a
large Phone. In a masterfully crafted
crowfunding initiative, you should
pitch WQHD/QHD display (leave it for
you to decide on LCD or OLED), the
fastest possible built-in NAND (UFS
2.x or at least the latest/greatest eMMC), & the latest/greatest mSD
standard.
SoC will leave to you guys, x86 or
ARM, preferably ARM, but x86 has
(slowly but surely) been getting
increasingly competitive. And ofc it
should be a "world-phone", compatible
on as many cellular bands as possible,
& uses the latest/greatest cellular
standards.
Then you should add just 1 perk:
"Active Digitiser" i.e. like the
Note's S-pen*. I wouldn't add any
other perks, as that's more than
enough to focus on & "get right". You
would of course keep "TOH" feature,
but it may have to remain as neglected
as it was with the J1 (i.e rely on the
community to step-up if/when it can),
but you'd probably upgrade it's
interface as I2C's too limiting.
Longer term you'd also try to
implement a "Continuum" feature, like
we're seeing coming to Win10Mobile & a
similar implementation coming to
UbuntuTouch (i.e bridge the divide
between Mobile & Desktop), but that
may be beyond your meagre resources.
Reading between the lines there's very
little money left for your device
making business, so you'd probably
have to rely almost entirely on a well
crafted crowd-funding initiative, one
which avoids
promises/user_expectations jumping too
far ahead of what you can deliver. The
core specs I've suggested aren't "pie
in the sky", especially if we're
talking about a phone that's not
shipping till this time next year -or
later. Whaddya think?
*MS is also expected to release a Phablet device in Nov/Dec this year,
it supposedly uses a digitiser very
similar to the Surface Pro 3 i.e.
"excellent"
So now that it's been posted in "official" channels, lets see if we get some professional feedback.
To be clear, there's no expectation of a detailed response about your plans for a J2.
Just a brief: "Yeah maybe that'd work -it's noted" or, "We don't think that'd work -here's why" etc.
Also I suspect that the choice of SoC forced on Jolla when ST-Ericsson decided to stop manufacturing or supplying the original choice of SoC is the reason behind the low-end display (the maximum resolution the current SoC supports is qHD). A higher specced SoC should mean we can get a better screen.
strongm ( 2014-01-25 12:24:24 +0300 )editA bezel is needed to hold the phone comfortably and safely in one hand without accidentally touching the screen with some flesh of the hand. A thinner bezel wouldn't turn out good, I suppose. The thinner the bezel the more slippery the phone feels, because you have less place to hold it.
pycage ( 2014-01-25 13:11:20 +0300 )edit@pycage
They will of course need to prototype and test a lot in order to get the thin bezel right.
ApB ( 2014-01-25 14:18:18 +0300 )editi would not mind smaller phone. n9 was nice form factor.
mike7b4 ( 2014-01-25 14:58:48 +0300 )edit