Information regarding crowdfunding tablet? [answered]

Not only about the tablet itself, but also about the Sailfish 2, and when to expect it available for the phones.

@nick75 most of 2.0 is already there you just don't recognize it as you are expecting visual changes like a new events-view and new lock-screen, 2.0 is a marketing term just like 1.0 was.

@chemist, no I don't expect any major visual changes from SFOS2, but being a big upgauge in version numbers, I expect a lot of blogs and news and other stuft that is pure marketing ... But so far ... nothing of that kind is posted.

Dear Jolla, please respond before the supportive community turns negative. We understand if there is a delay. Just let us know. No point in calling it the crowdfunded tablet if the crowd who funded has no clue what's going on.

What makes you think there is another delay? It's not even end of July. If lack of frequent information meant delays or problems, companies like Apple or Samsung wouldn't have released any products at all. :)

Yes, they really should respond. This was their promise 23.4.: "We'll be sending you regularupdates by email, in the Jolla Blog, on together.jolla.com and through our social media channels. Stay tuned!"

I fully agree with you; I bought/preordered/.. this tablet without any tests/reviews, because thought it will be different. I believed if anybody have a good idea he/she can write it down here and if it is a good idea jolla try to implement it (or give a reason why they cant or dont want to implement it). I understand that the HW changes are difficult and expensive, but there is a lot of SW suggestion in this site, but the answer mostly was the default "we maybe think about that"... And the display change... "we want to offer you the best possible hardware, we chose to switch to a new display. This display is better than the original" without any data/specification it seems like only a marketing trick. I thought a lot about purchasing a jolla phone, but because these things i changed my mind...

Maybe they make an excellent tablet, but without good communication and a good community it will be only one of the tablets.

"Sorry to say this, but you are loosing my support now. I can't help the feeling I should not pre-order the tablet." I feel the same, sadly!

I crowdfunded this tablet because I was looking for a new tablet, have been a Linux user for years and hoped that this would be a nice piece of hardware to install kubuntu on in case I didn't like sailfish os. I've preferred open software for a long time and jollas claims of openness, togetherness and "unlikeness" convinced me that I could support this and wait a while for the new tab. Instead of just getting one off the shelves like the nexus 9. But the information source to us seems dried up, nothing is available as to when it will be shipped, apart from the notification that it will be somewhere after my vacation :( At this point I really hope it wasn't just a scam :/ I played with the idea of getting a jolla phone but the way they are handling this discouraged me from the purchase. Please jolla don't make us regret supporting you.

I think this is one of those questions/topics that keeps feeding itself. Since the latest information is that the shipments will start by the end of July, why is people thinking otherwise? I really don't get it, as you said, the roadmap is being updated and it seems progress has been made, so why panic? Because we are so anxiously waiting for the tablet and when one person posts something like:"Hmm.. There's something probably... maybe... perhaps... or might be out of place, I have a bad feeling... Then it's a snowball effect ready to roll. Just stay calm people. The tablet is coming! At this point I'd say that no news is good news. :)

Afaik they haven't shipped the dev loan tablets yet (see Iekku's comment here in 26th June: https://blog.jolla.com/jolla-tablet-developer-device-loan-program-starting-soon/), so it's pretty safe to assume that there may be some additional delays.

As a dev I would really like to know the timetable to be able to allocate some of my limited free time for developing and porting existing apps to the tablet...

a) No information is also information
b) other well-funded kickstarter/indigogo projects have failed
c) Promises to keep updated about the (especially) the Tablet
d) Developer Tablets apparently not shipped yet

^^ You cant resist that! :D

I hope this, too. But this is no answer, its a comment.

I think Jolla owe us an official statement for the current lack of information.

"Contributions on Indiegogo are nonrefundable according to our Terms of Use." link text

Maybe we should contact Jolla direct (via email) to get a statement for the current situation.

they delievered a phone... no real reason to doubt the tablet is not coming. Despite some hectic self inflicted bean counter rumors at TMO. Oh my god, the promised blogpost #5 is still missing, i don't know a developer who got one of that fabled loan devices, they must be bancrupt :( Yes, more communication would be nice. Beeing a small company myself i can abreviate how hard it is to satisfy everyone, everytime. I trust them to communicate major changes, which they did. Take the latest marketing speak literal "shipment starts end of july". So i expect them to send the first tablet out on 31st July. Every day earlier would surprise me more than another month delay, announced on 30th of July.

Jolla is alive, they updated roadmap recently, they posted to the blog (just not about the tablet), and there are fresh news regarding Sailfish OS.

Hysteria does not bring anything forward, let's be a bit patient.

"Very clear"? Based on what? The lack of constant flow of information about the progress of the tablet?

'No news is good news' used to mean something, although I am not all for just completely shutting up about everything (which has not even happened, in this case). So the original shipping date got pushed a couple of months and there is some promised blog post yet missing, so what. I would understand all this whi^H^H^H complaining a whole lot more IF the date today would say August instead of July.

Could you just concentrate more on the actual facts instead of wild assumptions ranging from e.g. bankcruptcy to major problems without any real proof, thanks. Alas, the topic has become quite boring already and I wouldn't care if I heard nothing about the tablet until I'm holding it in my hands.

BTW the post above is no answer, so please, edit accordingly.

Let's wait for an official statement from Jolla. I hope It doesn't take to long...

Maybe the big problem is just a lot of work to do - and those tiny little obsctacles that show up from time to time and challenge you and your schedule. I guess that is just normal. Anything else would be magic. Explaining all these little problems is merely impossible and communicating then is thus no fun. (Nonetheless (or even more) I woud highly appreciate an official update)

Another guess is that the sailors want to be more convincing with the tablet than with the phone. While the phone is nice (the best I have) it was not overwhelming - at least not in the beginning and thus did not cause exitment. However, Jolla's next product has to be more attractive right from the beginning because the is no "it's just beta" excuse

I for myself find it to be very curious that no Jolla employee has commented in this thread. I guess a simple "we're still alive and working" would satisfy the most of us.

There's twitter for that