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1 | initial version | posted 2017-12-16 14:00:06 +0200 |
During the last 10 years I had iPhones most of the time, also an android phone and a Blackberry. I was quite happy especially with iPhone's functionality, but not with their pricing and not at all with the quasi duopoly of iOS and android that developed in the past years, so I decided to give Sailfish OS 2.1.3.7. not only a try on a second phone but a chance on my everyday phone.
The Sailfish X, Xperia X or whatever you may call it (Sony Xperia with Sailfish OS on it) worked quite well for me and I didn't encouter any problem that made it impossible for me to use it in my everyday life.
I'm not a smartphone user, who needs to install every available app. So the limited app store is not an issue for me, but the limited stock apps are more or less annoying and should be refined:
phone/sms: no selective call / sms blocking possible at all. You should at least be able to block anonymous calls and calls from certain numbers. It would be best to include also phone/sms white and black listing functionality according to a time table. So you could e.g. limit certain calls to workdays during office hours.
mms: mms functionality cannot be switched off i.e. mms apn can't be deleted. Who still needs mms?
call/message notifications: you can't toggle them off one by one, which would be helpful.
camera: (auto-)focussing issue which could be quite easily resolved my manual focussing and focus lock, since there is a third party app on Jolla store that works better than the stock app in this respect
clock: timer allows to preset hours and minutes but no seconds. Why not?! // Alarm is way to loud in general.
browser: you can't choose search engines as you wish. It's limited to google, bing, yahoo and yandex. That's ridiculous for a project like SFOS IMHO.
Very few good and working apps can be found on Jolla store, so that most people will have to rely on android apps and openrepos rpm, which is not why I purchased Sailfish X. Android apps's permissions can't be toggled off one by one in 2.1.3.7 and people that are not tech savvy won't be able to judge, if an rpm on openrepos is potentially dangerous or not (apps are not already secure just because they are open source). That's why installed only two android apps and no openrepos rpms. Jolla should include safe openrepos rpms in their store IMHO.
I encountered problems concerning mobile network connection and a jolla specialist helped me within 3 days (!) with a fix by email. So this OS has bugs. Yes. But the devs are responsive and help you out. Thumbs up.
My mobile subscription includes 1 GB data per month and until I switched to SFOS this was just enough data. With Sailfix my data consumption has definitely decreased. No conspiracy theory. To a certain extent it might be due to the fact, that I don't use iMessage/Threema for messaging anymore but SMS/Threema.
2 | No.2 Revision |
During the last 10 years I had iPhones most of the time, also an android phone and a Blackberry. I was quite happy especially with iPhone's functionality, but not with their pricing and not at all with the quasi duopoly of iOS and android that developed in the past years, so I decided to give Sailfish OS 2.1.3.7. not only a try on a second phone but a chance on my everyday phone.
The Sailfish X, Xperia X or whatever you may call it (Sony Xperia with Sailfish OS on it) worked quite well for me and I didn't encouter any problem that made it impossible for me to use it in my everyday life.
I'm not a smartphone user, who needs to install every available app. So the limited app store is not an issue for me, but the limited stock apps are more or less annoying and should be refined:
phone/sms: no selective call / sms blocking possible at all. You should at least be able to block anonymous calls and calls from certain numbers. It would be best to include also phone/sms white and black listing functionality according to a time table. So you could e.g. limit certain calls to workdays during office hours.
mms: mms functionality cannot be switched off i.e. mms apn can't be deleted. Who still needs mms?
call/message notifications: you can't toggle them off one by one, which would be helpful.
camera: (auto-)focussing issue which could be quite easily resolved my by manual focussing and focus lock, since there is a third party app on Jolla store that works better than the stock app in this respect
clock: timer allows to preset hours and minutes but no seconds. Why not?! // Alarm is way to loud in general.
browser: you can't choose search engines as you wish. It's limited to google, bing, yahoo and yandex. That's ridiculous for a project like SFOS IMHO.
Very few good and working apps can be found on Jolla store, so that most people will have to rely on android apps and openrepos rpm, which is not why I purchased Sailfish X. Android apps's permissions can't be toggled off one by one in 2.1.3.7 and people that are not tech savvy won't be able to judge, if an rpm on openrepos is potentially dangerous or not (apps are not already secure just because they are open source). That's why installed only two android apps and no openrepos rpms. Jolla should include safe openrepos rpms in their store IMHO.
I encountered problems concerning mobile network connection and a jolla specialist helped me within 3 days (!) with a fix by email. So this OS has bugs. Yes. But the devs are responsive and help you out. Thumbs up.
My mobile subscription includes 1 GB data per month and until I switched to SFOS this was just enough data. With Sailfix my data consumption has definitely decreased. No conspiracy theory. To a certain extent it might be due to the fact, that I don't use iMessage/Threema for messaging anymore but SMS/Threema.
3 | No.3 Revision |
During the last 10 years I had iPhones most of the time, also an android phone and a Blackberry. I was quite happy especially with iPhone's functionality, but not with their pricing and not at all with the quasi duopoly of iOS and android that developed in the past years, so I decided to give Sailfish OS 2.1.3.7. not only a try on a second phone but a chance on my everyday phone.
The Sailfish X, Xperia X or whatever you may call it (Sony Xperia with Sailfish OS on it) worked quite well for me and I didn't encouter any problem that made it impossible for me to use it in my everyday life.
I'm not a smartphone user, who needs to install every available app. So the limited app store is not an issue for me, but the limited stock apps are more or less annoying and should be refined:
phone/sms: no selective call / sms blocking possible at all. You should at least be able to block anonymous calls and calls from certain numbers. It would be best to include also phone/sms white and black listing functionality according to a time table. So you could e.g. limit certain calls to workdays during office hours.
mms: mms functionality cannot be switched off i.e. mms apn can't be deleted. Who still needs mms?
call/message notifications: you can't toggle them off one by one, which would be helpful.
camera: (auto-)focussing issue which could be quite easily resolved by manual focussing and focus lock, since there is a third party app on Jolla store that works better than the stock app in this respect
clock: timer allows to preset hours and minutes but no seconds. Why not?! // Alarm is way to loud in general.
browser: you can't choose search engines as you wish. It's limited to google, bing, yahoo and yandex. That's ridiculous for a project like SFOS IMHO.
Very few good and working apps can be found on Jolla store, so that most people will have to rely on android apps and openrepos rpm, which is not why I purchased Sailfish X. Android apps's permissions can't be toggled off one by one in 2.1.3.7 and people that are not tech savvy won't be able to judge, if an rpm on openrepos is potentially dangerous or not (apps are not already secure just because they are open source). That's why I installed only two android apps and no openrepos rpms. Jolla should include safe openrepos rpms in their store IMHO.
I encountered problems concerning mobile network connection and a jolla specialist helped me within 3 days (!) with a fix by email. So this OS has bugs. Yes. But the devs are responsive and help you out. Thumbs up.
My mobile subscription includes 1 GB data per month and until I switched to SFOS this was just enough data. With Sailfix my data consumption has definitely decreased. No conspiracy theory. To a certain extent it might be due to the fact, that I don't use iMessage/Threema for messaging anymore but SMS/Threema.
4 | No.4 Revision |
During the last 10 years I had iPhones most of the time, also an android phone and a Blackberry. I was quite happy especially with iPhone's functionality, but not with their pricing and not at all with the quasi duopoly of iOS and android that developed in the past years, so I decided to give Sailfish OS 2.1.3.7. not only a try on a second phone but a chance on my everyday phone.
The Sailfish X, Xperia X or whatever you may call it (Sony Xperia with Sailfish OS on it) worked quite well for me and I didn't encouter any problem that made it impossible for me to use it in my everyday life.
I'm not a smartphone user, who needs to install every available app. So the limited app store is not an issue for me, but the limited stock apps are more or less annoying and should be refined:
phone/sms: no selective call / sms blocking possible at all. You should at least be able to block anonymous calls and calls from certain numbers. It would be best to include also phone/sms white and black listing functionality according to a time table. So you could e.g. limit certain calls to workdays during office hours.
mms: mms functionality cannot be switched off i.e. mms apn can't be deleted. Who still needs mms?
call/message notifications: you can't toggle them off one by one, which would be helpful.
camera: (auto-)focussing issue which could be quite easily resolved by manual focussing and focus lock, since there is a third party app on Jolla store that works better than the stock app in this respect
clock: timer allows to preset hours and minutes but no seconds. Why not?! // Alarm is way to loud in general.
browser: you can't choose search engines as you wish. It's limited to google, bing, yahoo and yandex. That's ridiculous for a project like SFOS IMHO.
Very few good and working apps can be found on Jolla store, so that most people will have to rely on android apps and openrepos rpm, which is not why I purchased Sailfish X. Android apps's permissions can't be toggled off one by one in 2.1.3.7 and people that are not tech savvy won't be able to judge, if an rpm on openrepos is potentially dangerous or not (apps are not already secure just because they are open source). That's why I installed only two android apps and no openrepos rpms. Jolla should include safe openrepos rpms in their store IMHO.
I encountered problems concerning mobile network connection and a jolla specialist helped me within 3 days (!) with a fix by email. So this OS has bugs. Yes. But the devs are responsive and help you out. Thumbs up.
My mobile subscription includes 1 GB data per month and until I switched to SFOS this was just enough data. With Sailfix Sailfish OS my data consumption has definitely decreased. No conspiracy theory. To a certain extent it might be due to the fact, that I don't use iMessage/Threema for messaging anymore but SMS/Threema.
5 | No.5 Revision |
During the last 10 years I had iPhones most of the time, also an android phone and a Blackberry. I was quite happy especially with iPhone's functionality, but not with their pricing and not at all with the quasi duopoly of iOS and android that developed in the past years, so I decided to give Sailfish OS 2.1.3.7. not only a try on a second phone but a chance on my everyday phone.
The Sailfish X, Xperia X or whatever you may call it (Sony Xperia with Sailfish OS on it) worked quite well for me and I didn't encouter any problem that made it impossible for me to use it in my everyday life.
I'm not a smartphone user, who needs to install every available app. So the limited app store is not an issue for me, but the limited stock apps are more or less annoying and should be refined:
phone/sms: no selective call / sms blocking possible at all. You should at least be able to block anonymous calls and calls from certain numbers. It would be best to include also phone/sms white and black listing functionality according to a time table. So you could e.g. limit certain calls to workdays during office hours.
mms: mms functionality cannot be switched off i.e. mms apn can't be deleted. Who still needs mms?
call/message notifications: you can't toggle them off one by one, which would be helpful.
camera: (auto-)focussing issue which could be quite easily resolved by manual focussing and focus lock, since there is a third party app on Jolla store that works better than the stock app in this respect
clock: timer allows to preset hours and minutes but no seconds. Why not?! // Alarm is way to loud in general.
browser: you can't choose search engines as you wish. It's limited to google, bing, yahoo and yandex. That's ridiculous for a project like SFOS IMHO.
Very few good and working apps can be found on Jolla store, so that most people will have to rely on android apps and openrepos rpm, which is not why I purchased Sailfish X. Android apps's permissions can't be toggled off one by one in 2.1.3.7 and people that are not tech savvy won't be able to judge, if an rpm on openrepos is potentially dangerous or not (apps are not already secure just because they are open source). That's why I installed only two android apps and no openrepos rpms. Jolla should include safe openrepos rpms in their store IMHO.
I encountered problems concerning mobile network connection and a jolla specialist helped me within 3 days (!) with a fix by email. So this OS has bugs. Yes. But the devs are responsive and help you out. Thumbs up.
My mobile subscription includes 1 GB data per month and until I switched to SFOS this was just enough data. With Sailfish OS my data consumption has definitely decreased. No conspiracy theory. To a certain extent it might be due to the fact, that I don't use iMessage/Threema for messaging anymore but SMS/Threema.
6 | No.6 Revision |
During the last 10 years I had iPhones most of the time, also an android phone and a Blackberry. I was quite happy especially with iPhone's functionality, but not with their pricing and not at all with the quasi duopoly of iOS and android that developed in the past years, so I decided to give Sailfish OS 2.1.3.7. not only a try on a second phone but a chance on my everyday phone.
The Sailfish X, Xperia X or whatever you may call it (Sony Xperia with Sailfish OS on it) worked quite well for me and I didn't encouter any problem that made it impossible for me to use it in my everyday life.
I'm not a smartphone user, who needs to install every available app. So the limited app store is not an issue for me, but the limited stock apps are more or less annoying and should be refined:
phone/sms: no selective call / sms blocking possible at all. You should at least be able to block anonymous calls and calls from certain numbers. It would be best to include also phone/sms white and black listing functionality according to a time table. So you could e.g. limit certain calls to workdays during office hours.
mms: mms functionality cannot be switched off i.e. mms apn can't be deleted. Who still needs mms?
call/message notifications: you can't toggle them off one by one, which would be helpful.
camera: (auto-)focussing issue which could be quite easily resolved by manual focussing and focus lock, since there is a third party app on Jolla store that works better than the stock app in this respect
clock: timer allows to preset hours and minutes but no seconds. Why not?! // Alarm is way to loud in general.
browser: you can't choose search engines as you wish. It's limited to google, bing, yahoo and yandex. That's ridiculous for a project like SFOS IMHO.
Very few good and working apps can be found on Jolla store, so that most people will have to rely on android apps and openrepos rpm, which is not why I purchased Sailfish X. rpm. Android apps's permissions can't be toggled off one by one in 2.1.3.7 and people that are not tech savvy won't be able to judge, if an rpm on openrepos is potentially dangerous or not (apps are not already secure just because they are open source). That's why I installed only two android apps and no openrepos rpms. Jolla should include safe openrepos rpms in their store IMHO.
I encountered problems concerning mobile network connection and a jolla specialist helped me within 3 days (!) with a fix by email. So this OS has bugs. Yes. But the devs are responsive and help you out. Thumbs up.
My mobile subscription includes 1 GB data per month and until I switched to SFOS this was just enough data. With Sailfish OS my data consumption has definitely decreased. No conspiracy theory. To a certain extent it might be due to the fact, that I don't use iMessage/Threema for messaging anymore but SMS/Threema.
7 | No.7 Revision |
During the last 10 years I had iPhones most of the time, also an android phone and a Blackberry. I was quite happy especially with iPhone's functionality, but not with their pricing and not at all with the quasi duopoly of iOS and android that developed in the past years, so I decided to give Sailfish OS 2.1.3.7. not only a try on a second phone but a chance on my everyday phone.
The Sailfish X, Xperia X or whatever you may call it (Sony Xperia with Sailfish OS on it) worked quite well for me and I didn't encouter any problem that made it impossible for me to use it in my everyday life.
I'm not a smartphone user, who needs to install every available app. So the limited app store is not an issue for me, but the limited stock apps are more or less annoying and should be refined:
phone/sms: no selective call / sms blocking possible at all. You should at least be able to block anonymous calls and calls from certain numbers. It would be best to include also phone/sms white and black listing functionality according to a time table. So you could e.g. limit certain calls to workdays during office hours.
mms: mms functionality cannot be switched off i.e. mms apn can't be deleted. Who still needs mms?
call/message notifications: you can't toggle them off one by one, which would be helpful.
camera: (auto-)focussing issue which could be quite easily resolved by manual focussing and focus lock, since there is a third party app on Jolla store that works better than the stock app in this respect
clock: timer allows to preset hours and minutes but no seconds. Why not?! // Alarm is way to loud in general.
browser: you can't choose search engines as you wish. It's limited to google, bing, yahoo and yandex. That's ridiculous for a project like SFOS IMHO.
Very few good and working apps can be found on Jolla store, so that most people will have to rely on android apps and openrepos rpm. Android apps's permissions can't be toggled off one by one in 2.1.3.7 and people that are not tech savvy won't be able to judge, if an rpm on openrepos is potentially dangerous or not (apps are not already secure just because they are open source). I installed only two android apps and no openrepos rpms. Jolla should include safe openrepos rpms in their store IMHO.
I encountered problems concerning mobile network connection and a jolla specialist helped me within 3 days (!) with a fix by email. So this OS has bugs. Yes. But the devs are responsive and help you out. you. Thumbs up.
My mobile subscription includes 1 GB data per month and until I switched to SFOS this was just enough data. With Sailfish OS my data consumption has definitely decreased. No conspiracy theory. To a certain extent it might be due to the fact, that I don't use iMessage/Threema for messaging anymore but SMS/Threema.
8 | No.8 Revision |
During the last 10 years I had iPhones most of the time, also an android phone and a Blackberry. I was quite happy especially with iPhone's functionality, but not with their pricing and not at all with the quasi duopoly of iOS and android that developed in the past years, so I decided to give Sailfish OS 2.1.3.7. not only a try on a second phone but a chance on my everyday phone.
The Sailfish X, Xperia X or whatever you may call it (Sony Xperia with Sailfish OS on it) worked quite well for me and I didn't encouter any problem that made it impossible for me to use it in my everyday life.
I'm not a smartphone user, who needs to install every available app. So the limited app store is not an issue for me, but the limited stock apps are more or less annoying and should be refined:
phone/sms: no selective call / sms blocking possible at all. You should at least be able to block anonymous calls and calls from certain numbers. It would be best to include also phone/sms white and black listing functionality according to a time table. So you could e.g. limit certain calls to workdays during office hours.
mms: mms functionality cannot be switched off i.e. mms apn can't be deleted. Who still needs mms? But I would like to do so, since MMS are not included in my subscription and abroad I even have to pay for receiving them. Other OS offer the option to turn off MMS, why not SFOS?
call/message notifications: you can't toggle them off one by one, which would be helpful.
camera: (auto-)focussing issue which could be quite easily resolved by manual focussing and focus lock, since there is a third party app on Jolla store that works better than the stock app in this respect
clock: timer allows to preset hours and minutes but no seconds. Why not?! // Alarm is way to loud in general.
browser: you can't choose search engines as you wish. It's limited to google, bing, yahoo and yandex. That's ridiculous for a project like SFOS IMHO.
Very few good and working apps can be found on Jolla store, so that most people will have to rely on android apps and openrepos rpm. Android apps's permissions can't be toggled off one by one in 2.1.3.7 and people that are not tech savvy won't be able to judge, if an rpm on openrepos is potentially dangerous or not (apps are not already secure just because they are open source). I installed only two android apps and no openrepos rpms. Jolla should include safe openrepos rpms in their store IMHO.
I encountered problems concerning mobile network connection and a jolla specialist helped me within 3 days (!) with a fix by email. So this OS has bugs. Yes. But the devs are responsive and help you. Thumbs up.
My mobile subscription includes 1 GB data per month and until I switched to SFOS this was just enough data. With Sailfish OS my data consumption has definitely decreased. No conspiracy theory. To a certain extent it might be due to the fact, that I don't use iMessage/Threema for messaging anymore but SMS/Threema.
9 | No.9 Revision |
During the last 10 years I had iPhones most of the time, also an android phone and a Blackberry. I was quite happy especially with iPhone's functionality, but not with their pricing and not at all with the quasi duopoly of iOS and android that developed in the past years, so I decided to give Sailfish OS 2.1.3.7. not only a try on a second phone but a chance on my everyday phone.
The Sailfish X, Xperia X or whatever you may call it (Sony Xperia with Sailfish OS on it) worked quite well for me and I didn't encouter any problem that made it impossible for me to use it in my everyday life.
I'm not a smartphone user, who needs to install every available app. So the limited app store is not an issue for me, but the limited stock apps are more or less annoying and should be refined:
phone/sms: no selective call / sms blocking possible at all. You should at least be able to block anonymous calls and calls from certain numbers. It would be best to include also phone/sms white and black listing functionality according to a time table. So you could e.g. limit certain calls to workdays during office hours.
mms: mms functionality cannot be switched off i.e. mms apn can't be deleted. Who still needs mms? But I would like to do so, since MMS mms are not included in my subscription and abroad I even have to pay for receiving them. Other OS offer the option to turn off MMS, mms, why not SFOS?
call/message notifications: you can't toggle them off one by one, which would be helpful.
camera: (auto-)focussing issue which could be quite easily resolved by manual focussing and focus lock, since there is a third party app on Jolla store that works better than the stock app in this respect
clock: timer allows to preset hours and minutes but no seconds. Why not?! // Alarm is way to loud in general.
browser: you can't choose search engines as you wish. It's limited to google, bing, yahoo and yandex. That's ridiculous for a project like SFOS IMHO.
Very few good and working apps can be found on Jolla store, so that most people will have to rely on android apps and openrepos rpm. Android apps's permissions can't be toggled off one by one in 2.1.3.7 and people that are not tech savvy won't be able to judge, if an rpm on openrepos is potentially dangerous or not (apps are not already secure just because they are open source). I installed only two android apps and no openrepos rpms. Jolla should include safe openrepos rpms in their store IMHO.
I encountered problems concerning mobile network connection and a jolla specialist helped me within 3 days (!) with a fix by email. So this OS has bugs. Yes. But the devs are responsive and help you. Thumbs up.
My mobile subscription includes 1 GB data per month and until I switched to SFOS this was just enough data. With Sailfish OS my data consumption has definitely decreased. No conspiracy theory. To a certain extent it might be due to the fact, that I don't use iMessage/Threema for messaging anymore but SMS/Threema.
10 | No.10 Revision |
During the last 10 years I had iPhones most of the time, also an android phone and a Blackberry. I was quite happy especially with iPhone's functionality, but not with their pricing and not at all with the quasi duopoly of iOS and android that developed in the past years, so I decided to give Sailfish OS 2.1.3.7. not only a try on a second phone but a chance on my everyday phone.
The Sailfish X, Xperia X or whatever you may call it (Sony Xperia with Sailfish OS on it) worked quite well for me and I didn't encouter any problem that made it impossible for me to use it in my everyday life.
I'm not a smartphone user, who needs to install every available app. So the limited app store is not an issue for me, but the limited stock apps are more or less annoying and should be refined:
phone/sms: no selective call / sms blocking possible at all. You should at least be able to block anonymous calls and calls from certain numbers. It would be best to include also phone/sms white and black listing functionality according to a time table. So you could e.g. limit certain calls to workdays during office hours.
mms: mms functionality cannot be switched off i.e. mms apn can't be deleted. Who still needs mms? But I would like to do so, since mms are not included in my subscription and abroad I even have to pay for receiving them. Other OS offer the option to turn off mms, why not SFOS?
call/message notifications: you can't toggle them off one by one, which would be helpful.
camera: (auto-)focussing issue which could be quite easily resolved by manual focussing and focus lock, since there is a third party app on Jolla store that works better than the stock app in this respect
clock: timer allows to preset hours and minutes but no seconds. Why not?! // Alarm is way to loud in general.
browser: you can't choose search engines as you wish. It's limited to google, bing, yahoo and yandex. That's ridiculous for a project like SFOS IMHO.
---update / below---
notepad: not very useful, IMAP support would make it much better
wifi: extremely difficult to connect to a network with invisible SSID. Why can't you simply add a network manually?
-------update / above---
Very few good and working apps can be found on Jolla store, so that most people will have to rely on android apps and openrepos rpm. Android apps's permissions can't be toggled off one by one in 2.1.3.7 and people that are not tech savvy won't be able to judge, if an rpm on openrepos is potentially dangerous or not (apps are not already secure just because they are open source). I installed only two android apps and no openrepos rpms. Jolla should include safe openrepos rpms in their store IMHO.
I encountered problems concerning mobile network connection and a jolla specialist helped me within 3 days (!) with a fix by email. So this OS has bugs. Yes. But the devs are responsive and help you. Thumbs up.
My mobile subscription includes 1 GB data per month and until I switched to SFOS this was just enough data. With Sailfish OS my data consumption has definitely decreased. No conspiracy theory. To a certain extent it might be due to the fact, that I don't use iMessage/Threema for messaging anymore but SMS/Threema.
11 | No.11 Revision |
During the last 10 years I had iPhones most of the time, also an android phone and a Blackberry. I was quite happy especially with iPhone's functionality, but not with their pricing and not at all with the quasi duopoly of iOS and android that developed in the past years, so I decided to give Sailfish OS 2.1.3.7. not only a try on a second phone but a chance on my everyday phone.
The Sailfish X, Xperia X or whatever you may call it (Sony Xperia with Sailfish OS on it) worked quite well for me and I didn't encouter any problem that made it impossible for me to use it in my everyday life.
I'm not a smartphone user, who needs to install every available app. So the limited app store is not an issue for me, but the limited stock apps are more or less annoying and should be refined:
phone/sms: no selective call / sms blocking possible at all. You should at least be able to block anonymous calls and calls from certain numbers. It would be best to include also phone/sms white and black listing functionality according to a time table. So you could e.g. limit certain calls to workdays during office hours.
mms: mms functionality cannot be switched off i.e. mms apn can't be deleted. Who still needs mms? But I would like to do so, since mms are not included in my subscription and abroad I even have to pay for receiving them. Other OS offer the option to turn off mms, why not SFOS?
call/message notifications: you can't toggle them off one by one, which would be helpful.
camera: (auto-)focussing issue which could be quite easily resolved by manual focussing and focus lock, since there is a third party app on Jolla store that works better than the stock app in this respect
clock: timer allows to preset hours and minutes but no seconds. Why not?! // Alarm is way to loud in general.
browser: you can't choose search engines as you wish. It's limited to google, bing, yahoo and yandex. That's ridiculous for a project like SFOS IMHO.
---update / below---
notepad: not very useful, IMAP support would make it much better
wifi: extremely difficult to connect to a network with invisible SSID. Why can't you simply add a network manually?
---update / below---
bluetooth: I can connect to a BMW hands free, to Bose head phones an to an iMac - BUT: connections aren't stable and not reliable. Working bluetooth should be somewhere on top of the priority list IMHO.
calendar: Sometimes it's quite difficult to switch off an alarm, when the phone is in sleep mode. The alarm shows up and when I want to turn it off the alarm screen vanishes.
-------update / above---
Very few good and working apps can be found on Jolla store, so that most people will have to rely on android apps and openrepos rpm. Android apps's permissions can't be toggled off one by one in 2.1.3.7 and people that are not tech savvy won't be able to judge, if an rpm on openrepos is potentially dangerous or not (apps are not already secure just because they are open source). I installed only two android apps and no openrepos rpms. Jolla should include safe openrepos rpms in their store IMHO.
I encountered problems concerning mobile network connection and a jolla specialist helped me within 3 days (!) with a fix by email. So this OS has bugs. Yes. But the devs are responsive and help you. Thumbs up.
My mobile subscription includes 1 GB data per month and until I switched to SFOS this was just enough data. With Sailfish OS my data consumption has definitely decreased. No conspiracy theory. To a certain extent it might be due to the fact, that I don't use iMessage/Threema for messaging anymore but SMS/Threema.
12 | No.12 Revision |
During the last 10 years I had iPhones most of the time, also an android phone and a Blackberry. I was quite happy especially with iPhone's functionality, but not with their pricing and not at all with the quasi duopoly of iOS and android that developed in the past years, so I decided to give Sailfish OS 2.1.3.7. not only a try on a second phone but a chance on my everyday phone.
The Sailfish X, Xperia X or whatever you may call it (Sony Xperia with Sailfish OS on it) worked quite well for me and I didn't encouter any problem that made it impossible for me to use it in my everyday life.
I'm not a smartphone user, who needs to install every available app. So the limited app store is not an issue for me, but the limited stock apps are more or less annoying and should be refined:
phone/sms: no selective call / sms blocking possible at all. You should at least be able to block anonymous calls and calls from certain numbers. It would be best to include also phone/sms white and black listing functionality according to a time table. So you could e.g. limit certain calls to workdays during office hours.
mms: mms functionality cannot be switched off i.e. mms apn can't be deleted. Who still needs mms? But I would like to do so, since mms are not included in my subscription and abroad I even have to pay for receiving them. Other OS offer the option to turn off mms, why not SFOS?
call/message notifications: you can't toggle them off one by one, which would be helpful.
camera: (auto-)focussing issue which could be quite easily resolved by manual focussing and focus lock, since there is a third party app on Jolla store that works better than the stock app in this respect
clock: timer allows to preset hours and minutes but no seconds. Why not?! // Alarm is way to loud in general.
browser: you can't choose search engines as you wish. It's limited to google, bing, yahoo and yandex. That's ridiculous for a project like SFOS IMHO.
notepad: not very useful, IMAP support would make it much better
wifi: extremely difficult to connect to a network with invisible SSID. Why can't you simply add a network manually?
---update / below---
bluetooth: I can connect to a BMW hands free, to Bose head phones an to an iMac - BUT: connections aren't stable and not reliable. Working bluetooth should be somewhere on top of the priority list IMHO.
calendar: Sometimes it's quite difficult to switch off an alarm, when the phone is in sleep mode. The alarm shows up and when I want to turn it off the alarm screen vanishes.
-------update / above---
Very few good and working apps can be found on Jolla store, so that most people will have to rely on android apps and openrepos rpm. Android apps's permissions can't be toggled off one by one in 2.1.3.7 and people that are not tech savvy won't be able to judge, if an rpm on openrepos is potentially dangerous or not (apps are not already secure just because they are open source). I installed only two android apps and no openrepos rpms. Jolla should include safe openrepos rpms in their store IMHO.
I encountered problems concerning mobile network connection and a jolla specialist helped me within 3 days (!) with a fix by email. So this OS has bugs. Yes. But the devs are responsive and help you. Thumbs up.
My mobile subscription includes 1 GB data per month and until I switched to SFOS this was just enough data. With Sailfish OS my data consumption has definitely decreased. No conspiracy theory. To a certain extent it might be due to the fact, that I don't use iMessage/Threema for messaging anymore but SMS/Threema.
13 | No.13 Revision |
During the last 10 years I had iPhones most of the time, also an android phone and a Blackberry. I was quite happy especially with iPhone's functionality, but not with their pricing and not at all with the quasi duopoly of iOS and android that developed in the past years, so I decided to give Sailfish OS 2.1.3.7. not only a try on a second phone but a chance on my everyday phone.
The Sailfish X, Xperia X or whatever you may call it (Sony Xperia with Sailfish OS on it) worked quite well for me and I didn't encouter any problem that made it impossible for me to use it in my everyday life.
I'm not a smartphone user, who needs to install every available app. So the limited app store is not an issue for me, but the limited stock apps are more or less annoying and should be refined:
phone/sms: no selective call / sms blocking possible at all. You should at least be able to block anonymous calls and calls from certain numbers. It would be best to include also phone/sms white and black listing functionality according to a time table. So you could e.g. limit certain calls to workdays during office hours.
mms: mms functionality cannot be switched off i.e. mms apn can't be deleted. Who still needs mms? But I would like to do so, since mms are not included in my subscription and abroad I even have to pay for receiving them. Other OS offer the option to turn off mms, why not SFOS?
call/message notifications: you can't toggle them off one by one, which would be helpful.
camera: (auto-)focussing issue which could be quite easily resolved by manual focussing and focus lock, since there is a third party app on Jolla store that works better than the stock app in this respect
clock: timer allows to preset hours and minutes but no seconds. Why not?! // Alarm is way to loud in general.
browser: you can't choose search engines as you wish. It's limited to google, bing, yahoo and yandex. That's ridiculous for a project like SFOS IMHO.
notepad: not very useful, IMAP support would make it much better
wifi: extremely difficult to connect to a network with invisible SSID. Why can't you simply add a network manually?
bluetooth: I can connect to a BMW hands free, to Bose head phones an to an iMac - BUT: connections aren't stable and not reliable. Working bluetooth should be somewhere on top of the priority list IMHO.
calendar: Sometimes it's quite difficult to switch off an alarm, when the phone is in sleep mode. The alarm shows up and when I want to turn it off the alarm screen vanishes.
Very few good and working apps can be found on Jolla store, so that most people will have to rely on android apps and openrepos rpm. Android apps's permissions can't be toggled off one by one in 2.1.3.7 and people that are not tech savvy won't be able to judge, if an rpm on openrepos is potentially dangerous or not (apps are not already secure just because they are open source). I installed only two android apps and no openrepos rpms. Jolla should include safe openrepos rpms in their store IMHO.
I encountered problems concerning mobile network connection and a jolla specialist helped me within 3 days (!) with a fix by email. So this OS has bugs. Yes. But the devs are responsive and help you. Thumbs up.
My mobile subscription includes 1 GB data per month and until I switched to SFOS this was just enough data. With Sailfish OS my data consumption has definitely decreased. No conspiracy theory. To a certain extent it might be due to the fact, that I don't use iMessage/Threema for messaging anymore but SMS/Threema.
---Update--- Today I found out, that for some reason and somehow SFOS Carddav partially deleted several of my around 1400 contacts. Sometimes one or two phone numbers were missing, sometimes an email-adress. Those deleted contacts were contacts that I haven't used for quite a long time as well as contacts that I use all the time. I really don't see a rule, but for sure this is very annoying. That much annoying that I won't use SFOS Carddav anymore. :(
14 | No.14 Revision |
During the last 10 years I had iPhones most of the time, also an android phone and a Blackberry. I was quite happy especially with iPhone's functionality, but not with their pricing and not at all with the quasi duopoly of iOS and android that developed in the past years, so I decided to give Sailfish OS 2.1.3.7. not only a try on a second phone but a chance on my everyday phone.
The Sailfish X, Xperia X or whatever you may call it (Sony Xperia with Sailfish OS on it) worked quite well for me and I didn't encouter any problem that made it impossible for me to use it in my everyday life.
I'm not a smartphone user, who needs to install every available app. So the limited app store is not an issue for me, but the limited stock apps are more or less annoying and should be refined:
phone/sms: no selective call / sms blocking possible at all. You should at least be able to block anonymous calls and calls from certain numbers. It would be best to include also phone/sms white and black listing functionality according to a time table. So you could e.g. limit certain calls to workdays during office hours.
mms: mms functionality cannot be switched off i.e. mms apn can't be deleted. Who still needs mms? But I would like to do so, since mms are not included in my subscription and abroad I even have to pay for receiving them. Other OS offer the option to turn off mms, why not SFOS?
call/message notifications: you can't toggle them off one by one, which would be helpful.
camera: (auto-)focussing issue which could be quite easily resolved by manual focussing and focus lock, since there is a third party app on Jolla store that works better than the stock app in this respect
clock: timer allows to preset hours and minutes but no seconds. Why not?! // Alarm is way to loud in general.
browser: you can't choose search engines as you wish. It's limited to google, bing, yahoo and yandex. That's ridiculous for a project like SFOS IMHO.
notepad: not very useful, IMAP support would make it much better
wifi: extremely difficult to connect to a network with invisible SSID. Why can't you simply add a network manually?
bluetooth: I can connect to a BMW hands free, to Bose head phones an to an iMac - BUT: connections aren't stable and not reliable. Working bluetooth should be somewhere on top of the priority list IMHO.
calendar: Sometimes it's quite difficult to switch off an alarm, when the phone is in sleep mode. The alarm shows up and when I want to turn it off the alarm screen vanishes.
Very few good and working apps can be found on Jolla store, so that most people will have to rely on android apps and openrepos rpm. Android apps's permissions can't be toggled off one by one in 2.1.3.7 and people that are not tech savvy won't be able to judge, if an rpm on openrepos is potentially dangerous or not (apps are not already secure just because they are open source). I installed only two android apps and no openrepos rpms. Jolla should include safe openrepos rpms in their store IMHO.
I encountered problems concerning mobile network connection and a jolla specialist helped me within 3 days (!) with a fix by email. So this OS has bugs. Yes. But the devs are responsive and help you. Thumbs up.
My mobile subscription includes 1 GB data per month and until I switched to SFOS this was just enough data. With Sailfish OS my data consumption has definitely decreased. No conspiracy theory. To a certain extent it might be due to the fact, that I don't use iMessage/Threema for messaging anymore but SMS/Threema.
---Update--- Today I found out, that for some reason and somehow SFOS Carddav partially deleted several of my around 1400 contacts. Sometimes one or two phone numbers were missing, sometimes an email-adress. Those deleted contacts were contacts that I haven't used for quite a long time as well as contacts that I use all the time. I really don't see a rule, but for sure this is very annoying. That much annoying that I won't use SFOS Carddav anymore. :(
15 | No.15 Revision |
During the last 10 years I had iPhones most of the time, also an android phone and a Blackberry. I was quite happy especially with iPhone's functionality, but not with their pricing and not at all with the quasi duopoly of iOS and android that developed in the past years, so I decided to give Sailfish OS 2.1.3.7. not only a try on a second phone but a chance on my everyday phone.
The Sailfish X, Xperia X or whatever you may call it (Sony Xperia with Sailfish OS on it) worked quite well for me and I didn't encouter any problem that made it impossible for me to use it in my everyday life.
I'm not a smartphone user, who needs to install every available app. So the limited app store is not an issue for me, but the limited stock apps are more or less annoying and should be refined:
phone/sms: no selective call / sms blocking possible at all. You should at least be able to block anonymous calls and calls from certain numbers. It would be best to include also phone/sms white and black listing functionality according to a time table. So you could e.g. limit certain calls to workdays during office hours.
mms: mms functionality cannot be switched off i.e. mms apn can't be deleted. Who still needs mms? But I would like to do so, since mms are not included in my subscription and abroad I even have to pay for receiving them. Other OS offer the option to turn off mms, why not SFOS?
call/message notifications: you can't toggle them off one by one, which would be helpful.
camera: (auto-)focussing issue which could be quite easily resolved by manual focussing and focus lock, since there is a third party app on Jolla store that works better than the stock app in this respect
clock: timer allows to preset hours and minutes but no seconds. Why not?! // Alarm is way to loud in general.
browser: you can't choose search engines as you wish. It's limited to google, bing, yahoo and yandex. That's ridiculous for a project like SFOS IMHO.
notepad: not very useful, IMAP support would make it much better
wifi: extremely difficult to connect to a network with invisible SSID. Why can't you simply add a network manually?
bluetooth: I can connect to a BMW hands free, to Bose head phones an to an iMac - BUT: connections aren't stable and not reliable. Working bluetooth should be somewhere on top of the priority list IMHO.
calendar: Sometimes it's quite difficult to switch off an alarm, when the phone is in sleep mode. The alarm shows up and when I want to turn it off the alarm screen vanishes.
Very few good and working apps can be found on Jolla store, so that most people will have to rely on android apps and openrepos rpm. Android apps's permissions can't be toggled off one by one in 2.1.3.7 and people that are not tech savvy won't be able to judge, if an rpm on openrepos is potentially dangerous or not (apps are not already secure just because they are open source). I installed only two android apps and no openrepos rpms. Jolla should include safe openrepos rpms in their store IMHO.
I encountered problems concerning mobile network connection and a jolla specialist helped me within 3 days (!) with a fix by email. So this OS has bugs. Yes. But the devs are responsive and help you. Thumbs up.
My mobile subscription includes 1 GB data per month and until I switched to SFOS this was just enough data. With Sailfish OS my data consumption has definitely decreased. No conspiracy theory. To a certain extent it might be due to the fact, that I don't use iMessage/Threema for messaging anymore but SMS/Threema.
---Update--- Today I found out, that for some reason and somehow SFOS Carddav partially deleted several of my around 1400 contacts. Sometimes one or two phone numbers were missing, sometimes an email-adress. Those deleted contacts were contacts that I haven't used for quite a long time as well as contacts that I use all the time. I really don't see a rule, but for sure this is very annoying. That much annoying that I won't use SFOS Carddav anymore. :(
16 | No.16 Revision |
During the last 10 years I had iPhones most of the time, also an android phone and a Blackberry. I was quite happy especially with iPhone's functionality, but not with their pricing and not at all with the quasi duopoly of iOS and android that developed in the past years, so I decided to give Sailfish OS 2.1.3.7. not only a try on a second phone but a chance on my everyday phone.
The Sailfish X, Xperia X or whatever you may call it (Sony Xperia with Sailfish OS on it) worked quite well for me and I didn't encouter any problem that made it impossible for me to use it in my everyday life.
I'm not a smartphone user, who needs to install every available app. So the limited app store is not an issue for me, but the limited stock apps are more or less annoying and should be refined:
phone/sms: no selective call / sms blocking possible at all. You should at least be able to block anonymous calls and calls from certain numbers. It would be best to include also phone/sms white and black listing functionality according to a time table. So you could e.g. limit certain calls to workdays during office hours.
mms: mms functionality cannot be switched off i.e. mms apn can't be deleted. Who still needs mms? But I would like to do so, since mms are not included in my subscription and abroad I even have to pay for receiving them. Other OS offer the option to turn off mms, why not SFOS?
call/message notifications: you can't toggle them off one by one, which would be helpful.
camera: (auto-)focussing issue which could be quite easily resolved by manual focussing and focus lock, since there is a third party app on Jolla store that works better than the stock app in this respect
clock: timer allows to preset hours and minutes but no seconds. Why not?! // Alarm is way to loud in general.
browser: you can't choose search engines as you wish. It's limited to google, bing, yahoo and yandex. That's ridiculous for a project like SFOS IMHO.
notepad: not very useful, IMAP support would make it much better
wifi: extremely difficult to connect to a network with invisible SSID. Why can't you simply add a network manually?
bluetooth: I can connect to a BMW hands free, to Bose head phones an to an iMac - BUT: connections aren't stable and not reliable. Working bluetooth should be somewhere on top of the priority list IMHO.
calendar: Sometimes it's quite difficult to switch off an alarm, when the phone is in sleep mode. The alarm shows up and when I want to turn it off the alarm screen vanishes.
Very few good and working apps can be found on Jolla store, so that most people will have to rely on android apps and openrepos rpm. Android apps's permissions can't be toggled off one by one in 2.1.3.7 and people that are not tech savvy won't be able to judge, if an rpm on openrepos is potentially dangerous or not (apps are not already secure just because they are open source). I installed only two android apps and no openrepos rpms. Jolla should include safe openrepos rpms in their store IMHO.
I encountered problems concerning mobile network connection and a jolla specialist helped me within 3 days (!) with a fix by email. So this OS has bugs. Yes. But the devs are responsive and help you. Thumbs up.
My mobile subscription includes 1 GB data per month and until I switched to SFOS this was just enough data. With Sailfish OS my data consumption has definitely decreased. No conspiracy theory. To a certain extent it might be due to the fact, that I don't use iMessage/Threema for messaging anymore but SMS/Threema.
---Update---
Today I found out, that for some reason and somehow SFOS Carddav partially deleted several of my around 1400 contacts. Sometimes one or two phone numbers were missing, sometimes an email-adress. email-address. Those deleted contacts were contacts that I haven't used for quite a long time as well as contacts that I use all the time. I really don't see a rule, but for sure this is very annoying. That much annoying that I won't use SFOS Carddav anymore. :(
17 | No.17 Revision |
During the last 10 years I had iPhones most of the time, also an android phone and a Blackberry. I was quite happy especially with iPhone's functionality, but not with their pricing and not at all with the quasi duopoly of iOS and android that developed in the past years, so I decided to give Sailfish OS 2.1.3.7. not only a try on a second phone but a chance on my everyday phone.
The Sailfish X, Xperia X or whatever you may call it (Sony Xperia with Sailfish OS on it) worked quite well for me and I didn't encouter any problem that made it impossible for me to use it in my everyday life.
I'm not a smartphone user, who needs to install every available app. So the limited app store is not an issue for me, but the limited stock apps are more or less annoying and should be refined:
phone/sms: no selective call / sms blocking possible at all. You should at least be able to block anonymous calls and calls from certain numbers. It would be best to include also phone/sms white and black listing functionality according to a time table. So you could e.g. limit certain calls to workdays during office hours.
mms: mms functionality cannot be switched off i.e. mms apn can't be deleted. Who still needs mms? But I would like to do so, since mms are not included in my subscription and abroad I even have to pay for receiving them. Other OS offer the option to turn off mms, why not SFOS?
call/message notifications: you can't toggle them off one by one, which would be helpful.
camera: (auto-)focussing issue which could be quite easily resolved by manual focussing and focus lock, since there is a third party app on Jolla store that works better than the stock app in this respect
clock: timer allows to preset hours and minutes but no seconds. Why not?! // Alarm is way to loud in general.
browser: you can't choose search engines as you wish. It's limited to google, bing, yahoo and yandex. That's ridiculous for a project like SFOS IMHO.
notepad: not very useful, IMAP support would make it much better
wifi: extremely difficult to connect to a network with invisible SSID. Why can't you simply add a network manually?
bluetooth: I can connect to a BMW hands free, to Bose head phones an to an iMac - BUT: connections aren't stable and not reliable. Working bluetooth should be somewhere on top of the priority list IMHO.
calendar: Sometimes it's quite difficult to switch off an alarm, when the phone is in sleep mode. The alarm shows up and when I want to turn it off the alarm screen vanishes.
Very few good and working apps can be found on Jolla store, so that most people will have to rely on android apps and openrepos rpm. Android apps's permissions can't be toggled off one by one in 2.1.3.7 and people that are not tech savvy won't be able to judge, if an rpm on openrepos is potentially dangerous or not (apps are not already secure just because they are open source). I installed only two android apps and no openrepos rpms. Jolla should include safe openrepos rpms in their store IMHO.
I encountered problems concerning mobile network connection and a jolla specialist helped me within 3 days (!) with a fix by email. So this OS has bugs. Yes. But the devs are responsive and help you. Thumbs up.
My mobile subscription includes 1 GB data per month and until I switched to SFOS this was just enough data. With Sailfish OS my data consumption has definitely decreased. No conspiracy theory. To a certain extent it might be due to the fact, that I don't use iMessage/Threema for messaging anymore but SMS/Threema.
---Update---
Today I found out, that for some reason and somehow SFOS Carddav partially deleted several of my around 1400 contacts. Sometimes one or two phone numbers were missing, sometimes an email-address. Those deleted contacts were contacts that I haven't used for quite a long time as well as contacts that I use all the time. I really don't see a rule, but for sure this is very annoying. That much annoying that I won't use SFOS Carddav anymore. :(
---Update2--- Someone, a user not an administrator, closed this question because it were too subjective. I don't agree with this closing. Of course thius thread it is subjective. It is my personal point of view - open for discussion. I basically like SFOS, but for me it's a product that cost me some money (50 Euro) and I expect certain features out of the box. I'm not a Linux comand line guy but someone seeking for an alternative to Android or iOS for everyday usage. SFOS might be the right choice in the future, but not now, yet. This is my opinion. If you don't agree, you can post your opinion, but don't close the question. That's bad style.
18 | No.18 Revision |
During the last 10 years I had iPhones most of the time, also an android phone and a Blackberry. I was quite happy especially with iPhone's functionality, but not with their pricing and not at all with the quasi duopoly of iOS and android that developed in the past years, so I decided to give Sailfish OS 2.1.3.7. not only a try on a second phone but a chance on my everyday phone.
The Sailfish X, Xperia X or whatever you may call it (Sony Xperia with Sailfish OS on it) worked quite well for me and I didn't encouter any problem that made it impossible for me to use it in my everyday life.
I'm not a smartphone user, who needs to install every available app. So the limited app store is not an issue for me, but the limited stock apps are more or less annoying and should be refined:
phone/sms: no selective call / sms blocking possible at all. You should at least be able to block anonymous calls and calls from certain numbers. It would be best to include also phone/sms white and black listing functionality according to a time table. So you could e.g. limit certain calls to workdays during office hours.
mms: mms functionality cannot be switched off i.e. mms apn can't be deleted. Who still needs mms? But I would like to do so, since mms are not included in my subscription and abroad I even have to pay for receiving them. Other OS offer the option to turn off mms, why not SFOS?
call/message notifications: you can't toggle them off one by one, which would be helpful.
camera: (auto-)focussing issue which could be quite easily resolved by manual focussing and focus lock, since there is a third party app on Jolla store that works better than the stock app in this respect
clock: timer allows to preset hours and minutes but no seconds. Why not?! // Alarm is way to loud in general.
browser: you can't choose search engines as you wish. It's limited to google, bing, yahoo and yandex. That's ridiculous for a project like SFOS IMHO.
notepad: not very useful, IMAP support would make it much better
wifi: extremely difficult to connect to a network with invisible SSID. Why can't you simply add a network manually?
bluetooth: I can connect to a BMW hands free, to Bose head phones an to an iMac - BUT: connections aren't stable and not reliable. Working bluetooth should be somewhere on top of the priority list IMHO.
calendar: Sometimes it's quite difficult to switch off an alarm, when the phone is in sleep mode. The alarm shows up and when I want to turn it off the alarm screen vanishes.
Very few good and working apps can be found on Jolla store, so that most people will have to rely on android apps and openrepos rpm. Android apps's permissions can't be toggled off one by one in 2.1.3.7 and people that are not tech savvy won't be able to judge, if an rpm on openrepos is potentially dangerous or not (apps are not already secure just because they are open source). I installed only two android apps and no openrepos rpms. Jolla should include safe openrepos rpms in their store IMHO.
I encountered problems concerning mobile network connection and a jolla specialist helped me within 3 days (!) with a fix by email. So this OS has bugs. Yes. But the devs are responsive and help you. Thumbs up.
My mobile subscription includes 1 GB data per month and until I switched to SFOS this was just enough data. With Sailfish OS my data consumption has definitely decreased. No conspiracy theory. To a certain extent it might be due to the fact, that I don't use iMessage/Threema for messaging anymore but SMS/Threema.
---Update--- Today I found out, that for some reason and somehow SFOS Carddav partially deleted several of my around 1400 contacts. Sometimes one or two phone numbers were missing, sometimes an email-address. Those deleted contacts were contacts that I haven't used for quite a long time as well as contacts that I use all the time. I really don't see a rule, but for sure this is very annoying. That much annoying that I won't use SFOS Carddav anymore. :(
---Update2---
Someone, a user not an administrator, closed this question because it were too subjective. I don't agree with this closing. Of course thius this thread it is subjective. It is my personal point of view - open for discussion. I basically like SFOS, but for me it's a product that cost me some money (50 Euro) and I expect certain features out of the box. I'm not a Linux comand command line guy but someone seeking for an alternative to Android or iOS for everyday usage. SFOS might be the right choice in the future, but not now, yet. This is my opinion. If you don't agree, you can post your opinion, but don't close the question. That's bad style.
19 | No.19 Revision |
During the last 10 years I had iPhones most of the time, also an android phone and a Blackberry. I was quite happy especially with iPhone's functionality, but not with their pricing and not at all with the quasi duopoly of iOS and android that developed in the past years, so I decided to give Sailfish OS 2.1.3.7. not only a try on a second phone but a chance on my everyday phone.
The Sailfish X, Xperia X or whatever you may call it (Sony Xperia with Sailfish OS on it) worked quite well for me and I didn't encouter any problem that made it impossible for me to use it in my everyday life.
I'm not a smartphone user, who needs to install every available app. So the limited app store is not an issue for me, but the limited stock apps are more or less annoying and should be refined:
phone/sms: no selective call / sms blocking possible at all. You should at least be able to block anonymous calls and calls from certain numbers. It would be best to include also phone/sms white and black listing functionality according to a time table. So you could e.g. limit certain calls to workdays during office hours.
mms: mms functionality cannot be switched off i.e. mms apn can't be deleted. Who still needs mms? But I would like to do so, since mms are not included in my subscription and abroad I even have to pay for receiving them. Other OS offer the option to turn off mms, why not SFOS?
call/message notifications: you can't toggle them off one by one, which would be helpful.
camera: (auto-)focussing issue which could be quite easily resolved by manual focussing and focus lock, since there is a third party app on Jolla store that works better than the stock app in this respect
clock: timer allows to preset hours and minutes but no seconds. Why not?! // Alarm is way to loud in general.
browser: you can't choose search engines as you wish. It's limited to google, bing, yahoo and yandex. That's ridiculous for a project like SFOS IMHO.
notepad: not very useful, IMAP support would make it much better
wifi: extremely difficult to connect to a network with invisible SSID. Why can't you simply add a network manually?
bluetooth: I can connect to a BMW hands free, to Bose head phones an to an iMac - BUT: connections aren't stable and not reliable. Working bluetooth should be somewhere on top of the priority list IMHO.
calendar: Sometimes it's quite difficult to switch off an alarm, when the phone is in sleep mode. The alarm shows up and when I want to turn it off the alarm screen vanishes.
Very few good and working apps can be found on Jolla store, so that most people will have to rely on android apps and openrepos rpm. Android apps's permissions can't be toggled off one by one in 2.1.3.7 and people that are not tech savvy won't be able to judge, if an rpm on openrepos is potentially dangerous or not (apps are not already secure just because they are open source). I installed only two android apps and no openrepos rpms. Jolla should include safe openrepos rpms in their store IMHO.
I encountered problems concerning mobile network connection and a jolla specialist helped me within 3 days (!) with a fix by email. So this OS has bugs. Yes. But the devs are responsive and help you. Thumbs up.
My mobile subscription includes 1 GB data per month and until I switched to SFOS this was just enough data. With Sailfish OS my data consumption has definitely decreased. No conspiracy theory. To a certain extent it might be due to the fact, that I don't use iMessage/Threema for messaging anymore but SMS/Threema.
---Update--- Today I found out, that for some reason and somehow SFOS Carddav partially deleted several of my around 1400 contacts. Sometimes one or two phone numbers were missing, sometimes an email-address. Those deleted contacts were contacts that I haven't used for quite a long time as well as contacts that I use all the time. I really don't see a rule, but for sure this is very annoying. That much annoying that I won't use SFOS Carddav anymore. :(
---Update2---
Someone, a user not an administrator, closed this question because it were too subjective. I don't agree with this closing. Of course this thread it is subjective. It is my personal point of view - open for discussion. I basically like SFOS, but for me it's a product that cost me some money (50 Euro) and I expect certain features out of the box. I'm not a Linux command line guy but someone seeking for an alternative to Android or iOS for everyday usage. SFOS might be the right choice in the future, but not now, yet. This is my opinion. If you don't agree, you can post your opinion, but don't close the question. That's bad style.
20 | No.20 Revision |
During the last 10 years I had iPhones most of the time, also an android phone and a Blackberry. I was quite happy especially with iPhone's functionality, but not with their pricing and not at all with the quasi duopoly of iOS and android that developed in the past years, so I decided to give Sailfish OS 2.1.3.7. not only a try on a second phone but a chance on my everyday phone.
The Sailfish X, Xperia X or whatever you may call it (Sony Xperia with Sailfish OS on it) worked quite well for me and I didn't encouter any problem that made it impossible for me to use it in my everyday life.
I'm not a smartphone user, who needs to install every available app. So the limited app store is not an issue for me, but the limited stock apps are more or less annoying and should be refined:
phone/sms: no selective call / sms blocking possible at all. You should at least be able to block anonymous calls and calls from certain numbers. It would be best to include also phone/sms white and black listing functionality according to a time table. So you could e.g. limit certain calls to workdays during office hours.
mms: mms functionality cannot be switched off i.e. mms apn can't be deleted. Who still needs mms? But I would like to do so, since mms are not included in my subscription and abroad I even have to pay for receiving them. Other OS offer the option to turn off mms, why not SFOS?
call/message notifications: you can't toggle them off one by one, which would be helpful.
camera: (auto-)focussing issue which could be quite easily resolved by manual focussing and focus lock, since there is a third party app on Jolla store that works better than the stock app in this respect
clock: timer allows to preset hours and minutes but no seconds. Why not?! // Alarm is way to loud in general.
browser: you can't choose search engines as you wish. It's limited to google, bing, yahoo and yandex. That's ridiculous for a project like SFOS IMHO.
notepad: not very useful, IMAP support would make it much better
wifi: extremely difficult to connect to a network with invisible SSID. Why can't you simply add a network manually?
bluetooth: I can connect to a BMW hands free, to Bose head phones an to an iMac - BUT: connections aren't stable and not reliable. Working bluetooth should be somewhere on top of the priority list IMHO.
calendar: Sometimes it's quite difficult to switch off an alarm, when the phone is in sleep mode. The alarm shows up and when I want to turn it off the alarm screen vanishes.
Very few good and working apps can be found on Jolla store, so that most people will have to rely on android apps and openrepos rpm. Android apps's permissions can't be toggled off one by one in 2.1.3.7 and people that are not tech savvy won't be able to judge, if an rpm on openrepos is potentially dangerous or not (apps are not already secure just because they are open source). I installed only two android apps and no openrepos rpms. Jolla should include safe openrepos rpms in their store IMHO.
I encountered problems concerning mobile network connection and a jolla specialist helped me within 3 days (!) with a fix by email. So this OS has bugs. Yes. But the devs are responsive and help you. Thumbs up.
My mobile subscription includes 1 GB data per month and until I switched to SFOS this was just enough data. With Sailfish OS my data consumption has definitely decreased. No conspiracy theory. To a certain extent it might be due to the fact, that I don't use iMessage/Threema for messaging anymore but SMS/Threema.
---Update---
Today
---Update2--- Someone, a user not
Very few good and working apps can be found on Jolla store, so that most people will have to rely on android apps and openrepos rpm. Android apps's permissions can't be toggled off one by one in 2.1.3.7 and people that are not tech savvy won't be able to judge, if
anI encountered problems concerning mobile network connection and a jolla specialist helped me within 3 days (!) with a fix by email. So
thisMy mobile subscription includes 1 GB data per month and until I switched to SFOS this was just enough data. With Sailfish OS my data consumption has definitely decreased. No conspiracy theory. To a certain extent it might be due to the fact, that I don't use iMessage/Threema for messaging anymore but SMS/Threema.
21 | No.21 Revision |
During the last 10 years I had iPhones most of the time, also an android phone and a Blackberry. I was quite happy especially with iPhone's functionality, but not with their pricing and not at all with the quasi duopoly of iOS and android that developed in the past years, so I decided to give Sailfish OS 2.1.3.7. not only a try on a second phone but a chance on my everyday phone.
The Sailfish X, Xperia X or whatever you may call it (Sony Xperia with Sailfish OS on it) worked quite well for me and I didn't encouter any problem that made it impossible for me to use it in my everyday life.
I'm not a smartphone user, who needs to install every available app. So the limited app store is not an issue for me, but the limited stock apps are more or less annoying and should be refined:
phone/sms: no selective call / sms blocking possible at all. You should at least be able to block anonymous calls and calls from certain numbers. It would be best to include also phone/sms white and black listing functionality according to a time table. So you could e.g. limit certain calls to workdays during office hours.
mms: mms functionality cannot be switched off i.e. mms apn can't be deleted. Who still needs mms? But I would like to do so, since mms are not included in my subscription and abroad I even have to pay for receiving them. Other OS offer the option to turn off mms, why not SFOS?
call/message notifications: you can't toggle them off one by one, which would be helpful.
camera: (auto-)focussing issue which could be quite easily resolved by manual focussing and focus lock, since there is a third party app on Jolla store that works better than the stock app in this respect
clock: timer allows to preset hours and minutes but no seconds. Why not?! // Alarm is way to loud in general.
browser: you can't choose search engines as you wish. It's limited to google, bing, yahoo and yandex. That's ridiculous for a project like SFOS IMHO.
notepad: not very useful, IMAP support would make it much better
wifi: extremely difficult to connect to a network with invisible SSID. Why can't you simply add a network manually?
bluetooth: I can connect to a BMW hands free, to Bose head phones an to an iMac - BUT: connections aren't stable and not reliable. Working bluetooth should be somewhere on top of the priority list IMHO.
calendar: Sometimes it's quite difficult to switch off an alarm, when the phone is in sleep mode. The alarm shows up and when I want to turn it off the alarm screen vanishes.
I found out, that for some reason and somehow SFOS Carddav partially deleted several of my around 1400 contacts. Sometimes one or two phone numbers were missing, sometimes an email-address. Those deleted contacts were contacts that I haven't used for quite a long time as well as contacts that I use all the time. I really don't see a rule, but for sure this is very annoying. That much annoying that I won't use SFOS Carddav anymore. :(
Very few good and working apps can be found on Jolla store, so that most people will have to rely on android apps and openrepos rpm. Android apps's permissions can't be toggled off one by one in 2.1.3.7 and people that are not tech savvy won't be able to judge, if an rpm on openrepos is potentially dangerous or not (apps are not already secure just because they are open source). I installed only two android apps and no openrepos rpms. Jolla should include safe openrepos rpms in their store IMHO.
I encountered problems concerning mobile network connection and a jolla specialist helped me within 3 days (!) with a fix by email. So this OS has bugs. Yes. But the devs are responsive and help you. Thumbs up.
My mobile subscription includes 1 GB data per month and until I switched to SFOS this was just enough data. With Sailfish OS my data consumption has definitely decreased. No conspiracy theory. To a certain extent it might be due to the fact, that I don't use iMessage/Threema for messaging anymore but SMS/Threema.
22 | No.22 Revision |
During the last 10 years I had iPhones most of the time, also an android phone and a Blackberry. I was quite happy especially with iPhone's functionality, but not with their pricing and not at all with the quasi duopoly of iOS and android that developed in the past years, so I decided to give Sailfish OS 2.1.3.7. not only a try on a second phone but a chance on my everyday phone.
The Sailfish X, Xperia X or whatever you may call it (Sony Xperia with Sailfish OS on it) worked quite well for me and I didn't encouter any problem that made it impossible for me to use it in my everyday life.
I'm not a smartphone user, who needs to install every available app. So the limited app store is not an issue for me, but the limited stock apps are more or less annoying and should be refined:
phone/sms: no selective call / sms blocking possible at all. You should at least be able to block anonymous calls and calls from certain numbers. It would be best to include also phone/sms white and black listing functionality according to a time table. So you could e.g. limit certain calls to workdays during office hours.
mms: mms functionality cannot be switched off i.e. mms apn can't be deleted. Who still needs mms? But I would like to do so, since mms are not included in my subscription and abroad I even have to pay for receiving them. Other OS offer the option to turn off mms, why not SFOS?
call/message notifications: you can't toggle them off one by one, which would be helpful.
camera: (auto-)focussing issue which could be quite easily resolved by manual focussing and focus lock, since there is a third party app on Jolla store that works better than the stock app in this respect
clock: timer allows to preset hours and minutes but no seconds. Why not?! // Alarm is way to loud in general.
browser: you can't choose search engines as you wish. It's limited to google, bing, yahoo and yandex. That's ridiculous for a project like SFOS IMHO.
notepad: not very useful, IMAP support would make it much better
wifi: extremely difficult to connect to a network with invisible SSID. Why can't you simply add a network manually?
bluetooth: I can connect to a BMW hands free, to Bose head phones an to an iMac - BUT: connections aren't stable and not reliable. Working bluetooth should be somewhere on top of the priority list IMHO.
calendar: Sometimes it's quite difficult to switch off an alarm, when the phone is in sleep mode. The alarm shows up and when I want to turn it off the alarm screen vanishes.
I found out, that for some reason and somehow SFOS Carddav partially deleted several of my around 1400 contacts. Sometimes one or two phone numbers were missing, sometimes an email-address. Those deleted contacts were contacts that I haven't used for quite a long time as well as contacts that I use all the time. I really don't see a rule, but for sure this is very annoying. That much annoying that I won't use SFOS Carddav anymore. :(until this is solved.
Very few good and working apps can be found on Jolla store, so that most people will have to rely on android apps and openrepos rpm. Android apps's permissions can't be toggled off one by one in 2.1.3.7 and people that are not tech savvy won't be able to judge, if an rpm on openrepos is potentially dangerous or not (apps are not already secure just because they are open source). I installed only two android apps and no openrepos rpms. Jolla should include safe openrepos rpms in their store IMHO.
I encountered problems concerning mobile network connection and a jolla specialist helped me within 3 days (!) with a fix by email. So this OS has bugs. Yes. But the devs are responsive and help you. Thumbs up.
My mobile subscription includes 1 GB data per month and until I switched to SFOS this was just enough data. With Sailfish OS my data consumption has definitely decreased. No conspiracy theory. To a certain extent it might be due to the fact, that I don't use iMessage/Threema for messaging anymore but SMS/Threema.
23 | No.23 Revision |
During the last 10 years I had iPhones most of the time, also an android phone and a Blackberry. I was quite happy especially with iPhone's functionality, but not with their pricing and not at all with the quasi duopoly of iOS and android that developed in the past years, so I decided to give Sailfish OS 2.1.3.7. not only a try on a second phone but a chance on my everyday phone.
The Sailfish X, Xperia X or whatever you may call it (Sony Xperia with Sailfish OS on it) worked quite well for me and I didn't encouter any problem that made it impossible for me to use it in my everyday life.
I'm not a smartphone user, who needs to install every available app. So the limited app store is not an issue for me, but the limited stock apps are more or less annoying and should be refined:
phone/sms: no selective call / sms blocking possible at all. You should at least be able to block anonymous calls and calls from certain numbers. It would be best to include also phone/sms white and black listing functionality according to a time table. So you could e.g. limit certain calls to workdays during office hours.
mms: mms functionality cannot be switched off i.e. mms apn can't be deleted. Who still needs mms? But I would like to do so, since mms are not included in my subscription and abroad I even have to pay for receiving them. Other OS offer the option to turn off mms, why not SFOS?
call/message notifications: you can't toggle them off one by one, which would be helpful.
camera: (auto-)focussing issue which could be quite easily resolved by manual focussing and focus lock, since there is a third party app on Jolla store that works better than the stock app in this respect
clock: timer allows to preset hours and minutes but no seconds. Why not?! // Alarm is way to loud in general.
browser: you can't choose search engines as you wish. It's limited to google, bing, yahoo and yandex. That's ridiculous for a project like SFOS IMHO.
notepad: not very useful, IMAP support would make it much better
wifi: extremely difficult to connect to a network with invisible SSID. Why can't you simply add a network manually?
bluetooth: I can connect to a BMW hands free, to Bose head phones an to an iMac - BUT: connections aren't stable and not reliable. Working bluetooth should be somewhere on top of the priority list IMHO.
calendar: Sometimes it's quite difficult to switch off an alarm, when the phone is in sleep mode. The alarm shows up and when I want to turn it off the alarm screen vanishes.
I found out, that for some reason and somehow SFOS Carddav partially deleted several of my around 1400 contacts. Sometimes one or two phone numbers were missing, sometimes an email-address. Those deleted contacts were contacts that I haven't used for quite a long time as well as contacts that I use all the time. I really don't see a rule, but for sure this is very annoying. That much annoying that I won't use SFOS Carddav until this is solved.solved. I should add, that this might be an issue related to my Carddav provider mailbos.org, but I don't know, yet.
Very few good and working apps can be found on Jolla store, so that most people will have to rely on android apps and openrepos rpm. Android apps's permissions can't be toggled off one by one in 2.1.3.7 and people that are not tech savvy won't be able to judge, if an rpm on openrepos is potentially dangerous or not (apps are not already secure just because they are open source). I installed only two android apps and no openrepos rpms. Jolla should include safe openrepos rpms in their store IMHO.
I encountered problems concerning mobile network connection and a jolla specialist helped me within 3 days (!) with a fix by email. So this OS has bugs. Yes. But the devs are responsive and help you. Thumbs up.
My mobile subscription includes 1 GB data per month and until I switched to SFOS this was just enough data. With Sailfish OS my data consumption has definitely decreased. No conspiracy theory. To a certain extent it might be due to the fact, that I don't use iMessage/Threema for messaging anymore but SMS/Threema.
24 | No.24 Revision |
During the last 10 years I had iPhones most of the time, also an android phone and a Blackberry. I was quite happy especially with iPhone's functionality, but not with their pricing and not at all with the quasi duopoly of iOS and android that developed in the past years, so I decided to give Sailfish OS 2.1.3.7. not only a try on a second phone but a chance on my everyday phone.
The Sailfish X, Xperia X or whatever you may call it (Sony Xperia with Sailfish OS on it) worked quite well for me and I didn't encouter any problem that made it impossible for me to use it in my everyday life.
I'm not a smartphone user, who needs to install every available app. So the limited app store is not an issue for me, but the limited stock apps are more or less annoying and should be refined:
phone/sms: no selective call / sms blocking possible at all. You should at least be able to block anonymous calls and calls from certain numbers. It would be best to include also phone/sms white and black listing functionality according to a time table. So you could e.g. limit certain calls to workdays during office hours.
mms: mms functionality cannot be switched off i.e. mms apn can't be deleted. Who still needs mms? But I would like to do so, since mms are not included in my subscription and abroad I even have to pay for receiving them. Other OS offer the option to turn off mms, why not SFOS?
call/message notifications: you can't toggle them off one by one, which would be helpful.
camera: (auto-)focussing issue which could be quite easily resolved by manual focussing and focus lock, since there is a third party app on Jolla store that works better than the stock app in this respect
clock: timer allows to preset hours and minutes but no seconds. Why not?! // Alarm is way to loud in general.
browser: you can't choose search engines as you wish. It's limited to google, bing, yahoo and yandex. That's ridiculous for a project like SFOS IMHO.
notepad: not very useful, IMAP support would make it much better
wifi: extremely difficult to connect to a network with invisible SSID. Why can't you simply add a network manually?
bluetooth: I can connect to a BMW hands free, to Bose head phones an to an iMac - BUT: connections aren't stable and not reliable. Working bluetooth should be somewhere on top of the priority list IMHO.
calendar: Sometimes it's quite difficult to switch off an alarm, when the phone is in sleep mode. The alarm shows up and when I want to turn it off the alarm screen vanishes.
I found out, that for some reason and somehow SFOS Carddav partially deleted several of my around 1400 contacts. Sometimes one or two phone numbers were missing, sometimes an email-address. Those deleted contacts were contacts that I haven't used for quite a long time as well as contacts that I use all the time. I really don't see a rule, but for sure this is very annoying. That much annoying that I won't use SFOS Carddav until this is solved. I should add, that this might be an issue related to my Carddav provider mailbos.org, mailbox.org, but I don't know, yet.
Very few good and working apps can be found on Jolla store, so that most people will have to rely on android apps and openrepos rpm. Android apps's permissions can't be toggled off one by one in 2.1.3.7 and people that are not tech savvy won't be able to judge, if an rpm on openrepos is potentially dangerous or not (apps are not already secure just because they are open source). I installed only two android apps and no openrepos rpms. Jolla should include safe openrepos rpms in their store IMHO.
I encountered problems concerning mobile network connection and a jolla specialist helped me within 3 days (!) with a fix by email. So this OS has bugs. Yes. But the devs are responsive and help you. Thumbs up.
My mobile subscription includes 1 GB data per month and until I switched to SFOS this was just enough data. With Sailfish OS my data consumption has definitely decreased. No conspiracy theory. To a certain extent it might be due to the fact, that I don't use iMessage/Threema for messaging anymore but SMS/Threema.