I prefer lower-res OLED over any insane resolution on LCD. Heck, I'd even prefer a qHD OLED (J1's resolution) over a full HD LCD.

Why do you prefer OLED? (just curious)

@vattuvarg Superior contrast, viewing angle, color gamut, speed. Most of those alone aren't really too important on a smart phone. But given that OLED combines all those advantages, the difference is huge. Jolla's weak viewing angle stability (some colors are way off, even at small angles) is a constant reminder of it being an LCD.

But the ability of OLED for always-on clock & notification, à la N9, is a near must-have. The current RGB-led on Jolla is a very poor alternative.

LCD's are the typewriters of the displays. Both are superseded by much better tech.

@Fuzzillogic
Thanks for answering. The same ability to have the clock and notification also allows for less disturbance when used in dark vehicles. My old Nokia 700 had a really nice (OLED) display.

Prefer an OLED display, much better on my old N9 (not the resolution I know ;-))

i had n8 before. its easy, a smaller phone fits better in my pocket. but there needs to be a possibility to get another keyboard. i always misstype with my jolla. with n8 i used the oldscool numerical keyboard with 12 big keys.

I think a T9-ish keyboard would be a great idea, especially for those coming from a button-phone to their first touch-phone. Would long-press character choices work for you?

i dont know what you mean by long press character choice. i prefer t9 keybords, i type faster with them because you more often hit the right key. the only thing is to have a working dictionary which also learns preferred words. my nokia n8 worked almost perfect for me

@NuklearFart

Try this: When typing on your Jolla, try a long press on the letter A. See what happens.

Ok, I did and I didn't know :D So learned how to type 'ß', lol. But this is crappy for me because it stops the flow of typing. Without the suggestions over the keyboard I'd need to retype words so often so I'd like to have T9 Keyboard back. Best Keyboard for typing for me was nokia 6280 with hardware t9 keyboard where I was able to send blind sms because I knew how often to press '*' to get the right word and the best thing was it never changed when I got a new Nokia device

Besides: Except the size I think nothing really changes because you simply can put anything into a smaller pocket like sony with the compact series. I think that a smaller phone just would grab other people for which the current size is to big. My biggest reason for not buying the Jolla phone was simply the size, In the end I bought it but comeing from a 3.5'' n8 to the big Jolla I need to get used to it. I think something between 4 and 4.3'' is perfect - I mean a bigger screen also has its advantages.

A smaller phone will attract people unaccustomed to touch phones and as @NuklearFart suggested a T9-ish keyboard would be a good idea.

A gesture keyboard is not a suggestion. It is a must.

same with the audio-jack imo

Quite logical to have them next to eachother, yes.

When listening to music with phone in the pocket, what is accessible is the top of the phone, hence where the headphone connector are on most of the phone I have seen (brand agnostic : done for example by Nokia with N8 or Motorola with Photon Q).

I'm Not sure why it would be "logical" to have audio jack close to USB ?

@zeta - So what is your suggestion?

@vattuvarg : I don't care about where the USB is, but for me headphones should be on top when listening music with corded headphones, with phone in the pocket.

1. A single app for contacts where data from the phone and both SIM cards are mixed.

2. Separate contact apps for the SIM cards. Red heart for the phone memory+SIM0 and blue heart for SIM1.

3. A switch to choose from the above settings.

Separate ringtones for the two SIM cards.

At this time my guess is that the J2 will use a mediatek 6735 SoC which doesn't support dualSIM. The J3 would then regrettably also lack that functionality.

I hope I'm wrong.

After MWC2015: A possible SoC for the J3 is Intel's x3-c3440. It supports dualSIM.

interessting stuff, but how is the overall image quality with such small lenses? For me quality is more important than the editing features

@michel
All photos are in focus thanks to the extremely short focal length. For me that is really nice. As for the quality of the camera? Only time will tell. But there is no autofocus mechanics so the camera would probably take G-forces better. ...and there would be no lag waiting for the autofocus.

An array camera may be used for Kinect-type gestures. One of those could activate the camera for selfies.

The camera hardware may also facilitate measuring and spatial mapping.

The array sensor could be used to wait for a photo until something comes closer than a specified distance.

Having an unlike camera would not be an option for J2, mainly because it will be competing with other "normal" phone cameras.

So if the array camera isn't an option for the smaller phone either then the fallback would be a vanilla 8Mp camera, I guess.

The piCam uses all the cameras of the array to calculate the image. Each lens doesn't have to be absolutely perfect to get a good photo. In fact, three of the 16 can be completely dead and you would still get a good photo. The camera also needs very little light to produce an acceptable image quality, apparently as little as 5 lux.

So combining the fact that the camera takes the photo when you press the button (and not after adjusting the focus first) and that it produces good results in low light conditions (with everything in focus) makes the technology interesting enough for the smaller phone I'm hoping for. The downside is that my daughter would then get to do funny photo manipulations with her phone while I'm stuck with a conventional camera on my brand spanking new J2... :'-(

The thing I'm really worrying about is that the processor of the camera needs to be able to calculate even when recording video (with depth information of course). If a budget class processor is picked for the smaller phone then it might not be fast enough to do the job. A lower resolution might be necessary. The current piCam module produces 1080p/30fps video but achieving 720p/30fps might be good enough.

I think thats the only really disadvantage from the J1, I would really love it if the new Phone have in the minimum FullHD, or Retina resolution.

After MWC2015: If Jolla chooses the Intel x3-c3440 SoC then a possible resolution would be 1280x800@60Hz, retina at 28cm. (1920x1080 is the maximum resolution for the SoC but it is only available at 30Hz, retina at 18cm).