[Wiki] Features missing before I would recommend Jolla (to non-techies)

answered 2015-04-09 12:01:40 +0300

pan tau
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there is no reason why not recommend jolla to NON-techies

i did recommend jolla to one non-techie partner 55+ years who was bored by WP or newer iOS and scared by Android, he is very happy Jolla user now, he check the current time and call and call whole day, sometime he reads or responds to sms , open calendar just to see what day will be next monday, or read some web news ...

it is not about geek/pro/non-techie question it is about what you expect from the phone....

personaly i have no android support installed in my jolla, but all jolla estentials are there, terminal enabled, meego, xbmc remote, imap, caldav, LTE, nice OTH, LED and all changable ambience text colors adjusted to fit my style, native support for streaming radios or mkv files are just cherries at the top of the cake, i am very happy user too

answered 2014-11-06 23:28:24 +0300

NuklearFart
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https://together.jolla.com/question/27207/wiki-which-features-do-you-crave-and-would-like-to-know-its-roadmap-status-on/?answer=58643#post-id-58643

This are some things I posted somewhere else and I think especially mail client and browser are most important

answered 2014-11-02 10:52:09 +0300

Baswat
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updated 2014-11-02 10:54:21 +0300

This are missing for me to recommend a Jolla to others.... Gallery folder with date... Different ringtone for contacts... copy numbers from call list... 3G videocall... kalender where month and week are displayed easily seen... faster access to turn on/off wifi,data connection... moore keyboard option... wpn... built in step counter... moore app store... thread wiew for text and mail

answered 2014-10-31 11:35:16 +0300

cquence
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updated 2014-10-31 11:38:35 +0300

The showstoppers at the moment in my opinion are the following:

1. Connection Stability (switching between WiFi/Mobile Data needs to be reliable) this includes the deep sleep behaviour which can have side effects like not getting notifications reliably in the backround while the phone is idle for too long.
2. Contacts mass export/import and general management
3. Voicemail notifications
4. Better navigation [preferrrably with offline options]
5. IMAP/IDLE support
6. Enterprise WiFi support

answered 2014-09-11 09:45:31 +0300

piwostar
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I would love to have integrated encrytion, maybe over gpg. especially for e-mail. security is a hot topic these days and in my opinion it is no alternative to use android apps all the time. i think emoticons would be a nice feature too, i don't need over 100 emoticons, but the essential ones like ;), :), :D, :o and so on.

answered 2014-04-25 17:16:22 +0300

Nirkus
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• activate 4G + CSFB (#2135) -- "LTE" is part of the device tech specs
• support different types of reminders as offered by e.g. Google Calender
• smaller, more smooth hardware
• thread-view for email
• more detailed information available from UI (battery usage, charging stats, show issues during creation of backup, etc.)

Just get groups of "non-techies", pay them to use a jolla and complain about everything they can find and fix that stuff. ;-) Do some iterations of that process and Sailfish should get a lot more smooth.

answered 2014-03-20 13:10:33 +0300

bilgy_no1
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I think Jolla still needs to improve the way notifications work. E.g. the Mitakuuluu app needs to be started manually (or with a special app) before you can receive notifications. Same thing with Android apps (such as Yahoo mail app, or other apps with push).

There should be a white list of apps that are allowed to run in the background to receive push notifications. I don't need all the apps to be open in the multitasking screen, but I do need them to receive push notifications without having to start them manually after a reboot.

Second, and related to the first, I'd like to be able to assign notifications to be handled by selectable apps. E.g. Tweets in the notification screen to be opened by Tweetian iso the mobile browser, Facebook notifications to be opened by the Android app, etc.

answered 2014-02-21 11:12:06 +0300

Giacomo Di Giacomo
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Since Sailfish OS is now very stable, the only real thing for normal users is that their phone behaves like other phones, which pretty much means Google Play and Google Services. Normal users can't and won't figure up why their phone is different from the ones used by persons they know.

answered 2014-02-21 07:48:06 +0300

orjans
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Different app store, preferably Play.

Yandex just doesn't cut it, sadly. The big apps aren't a problem, and often have native support, but for my part both banking and checking how much data usage I have left this month on my carrier are done through Android apps and neither my carrier nor bank will upload those to Yandex. They use Play so I have to use Play. (I have installed Play, works great, but I can't recommend my father to try the same.)

answered 2014-02-21 00:44:01 +0300

vattuvarg
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It is a bit sad, but with the world being what it is right now I would recommend Jolla phones as they are to people dear to me, even if they are considered non-techies. In fact, I already have. The alternatives may have more of everything and in a polished package too, but they always come with some kind of contract to seal in blood. I prefer seeing wild sailing fishes in their hands rather than chains around their wrists tied to shiny robots or beautiful white marble walls around a secret garden with no exits.

I have even asked for a smaller phone so that my fiancé and our two children also can have good phones that fit their smaller hands.

Enough of the pieces are done. I am typing this (rant?) on a phone that would have brought tears of joy to advocates of open source two years ago. Now it is a real tool that touch by touch spells the text that you will read. It's a phone that keeps the doors open, unlike the competition. There is a unlocked passage down to the machinery below. There are i2c lines to connect things.

There will always be bugs and missing pieces, but with Jolla and Sailfish the road ahead doesn't belong to someone else, it is forever open. It might not be impressive yet, but it doesn't need to be either. Even if the way to the future is a tiny path it will still get you further than any chains or walls.

OK. You can start voting me down now. But everyone that buys a Jolla phone will be a techie. ...and they will probably like it as much as I do.