Bye for now, Jolla [not a question]

asked 2014-04-10 19:24:34 +0200

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It is now the time to put my Jollaphone to wait for better times. I hate to say it but I had greater expectations from this product, especially when it is sort of a descendant of my all-time-favourite phone Nokia N900. Few facts that led me to this conclusion:

  • still no working exchange account, after multiple tries now I can't even add any exchange accounts. There probably exists a solution for this but... I never had to struggle with email accounts in Maemo or Symbian (or WP)
  • strange behaviour of audio routing with external FM transmitter & car's bluetooth handsfree (https://together.jolla.com/question/37055/audio-routing-bluetoothheadphones/)
  • media player is quite limited, for example no search feature exists
  • phone's surprisingly weak construction, I have a broken glass which haven't occurred with me since the days of Nokia 2110 and before Jolla I've been using a bunch of communicators, Lumias and so on.
  • no navigation
  • email client's defiences
  • even I noticed that I do like gesture-based UI, it is not finished yet and in some cases makes things a little bit difficult/complicated

Back to Lumia it is, even I never liked WP but it is more polished and functional, at least with the things that are important to me. I do trust that Jolla will get there... but that time has not yet arrived.

Anywayz, keep up the good work Jolla people.

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It will be a journey together to being a full polished OS, BUT even I must agree with their beta status removed I feel that there still is too many basic things missing. I do know it will all come in time but at this stage it still feels like beta.

I will still continue using it as my main phone as I can overcome the issues and just work with community and Jolla to bring the improvements.

Mariusmssj ( 2014-04-10 19:37:01 +0200 )edit
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I had to switch back to N9 after 3 moths of using Jolla as my primary. Just too many little things that arent working fluently...

t0mps0 ( 2014-04-10 20:26:01 +0200 )edit
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i'm close to the same decision, shifting back on N9, but decide to wait for another couple updates (assuming they are monthly ones).

SergeiStPete ( 2014-04-10 20:53:06 +0200 )edit

I have downvoted this post because it brings nothing new to the discussion. This is something more suited to be posted on a blog or a forum, but not here. (This is not to say I don't agree with the things you mentioned, of course.)

nthn ( 2014-04-10 20:53:30 +0200 )edit

phone's surprisingly weak construction

I have to disagree on this one. The phone fell several times, once from a moving bike, with no damage apart from slightly chipped corners. My previous Nexus 4 glass was broken twice in 6 month.

idiallo ( 2014-04-10 21:38:41 +0200 )edit