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I've now been using Sailfish X on my Xperia for exactly 366 days (thanks to 'Importand Days' from Jolla store), so let me present you a kind of a mini-review of how I've liked it so far. Before this I had a Jolla 1 as a daily driver since november 2015 (meaning it has been Sailfish-only for me for three years now!).

Hardware related:

• Sometimes (perhaps once a month) the device starts running hot and looking at Lighthouse's (from Jolla store) CPU info I can see that one of the CPU cores (I believe it has been usually core 5/6) has gone to constant 100%. Reboot fixes this.

• Camera is a big update from Jolla1, but suffers from software issues, see below.

• Battery life has been Ok for my use; I recharge daily and returning from work I am usually at about 60-70%.

• Still unstable switching between wifi and 3G. Weather-app loses connectibility almost daily when moving between wifi and 3G. Also at work switching between AP's (delivering the same ssid) fails and I need to re-enable wifi to get a working wifi connection.

• The audio out thrue headphones has heavy issues (noise and compression-like noises) and has forced me to use Bluetooth headphones.

• Bluetooth has improved, used to have weekly issues with headphones going mute and having to re-connect. Nowadays mostly stable.

• The fingerprint sensor was a welcomed addition, but so far I haven't been able to use it daily. I can teach the fingerprint and it usually works for awhile but then I start getting more and more non-recognizitions on trying to unlock the screen and I usually just go back to using the lock code.

More softwar-ish issues:

• YouTube in browser: can't select resolution. Also sometimes theres is a graphical glitch that artefacts start showing up on the pull-down menus of the OS when you have a video playing in browser (minimized). I used to use YTPlayer in Jolla1 where it worked much better than in-browser but in Xperia it usually fails to load videos at all.

• Browser: occasional glitches, in current version switching between YouTube's full-screen and normal view causes the normal screen showing a black screen. YouTube playback stops if another tab is opened. Menu system somewhat clunky.

• Sometimes the lock screen fails; the display comes up but the touchscreen won't. Meaning I can't unlock the screen. Usually fixes itself by repeatedly locking and unlocking the screen (and/or using the tip from these forums to cover up the proxmity sensor).

• In the current version it seems that the camera app will focus very well ONCE, but the following focusing attemps do not do well. If I restart the camera app it will again focus perfectly on the first try. This I really hope to be fixed in the future.

• Exchange support: started buggy (email often stopped syncing forcing to restart) but lately it has worked without problems.

• Phone app: ending call produces a network failure (+three-tone error beep), used to happen at almost all calls at first but in recent versions this has improved and now I see this very rarely.

• Location services: at the moment buggy, at least on my phone. All my photos are given the same (incorrect) coordinates and map apps give a false position. Running compas calibration did seem to help abit, but still it doesn't appear to be working. Haven't really used it, though.

• Android support; I use only a few, but generally the ones I have tried do work. Yle Areena works which is important for me for tv shows and at work I use Yammer.

• VPN support works nicely, big plus for me and my homelab :)

• Even being somewhat crude, I must admit that I like to be able to just have an SFTP connection to my phone and transfer files. Having used an iPhone and being forced to do eveything thrue iTunes I feel very much relieved how easily I can move files.

Some of the issues I mentioned might already have work-arounds or better apps available, I haven't done too much research. I would like to see the daily stuff being Sailfish apps as I usually keep the Android support off.

After all complains, I must give me appreciation to the OS itself being pretty stable nowadays. I often get uptimes of several weeks and my record was 31 days of uptime after I installed the latest OS version.

My favourite apps: Quickddit (reddit client), jBoy (Gameboy emulator), ownKeepass (Keepass-password store), Podcatcher (podcasts, somewhat unstable and would need updates) and Pan Transit (bus/tram stop tracking utility). Also big + for the ability to send gallery photos directly to Dropbox, I use it almost weekly.

What I would like to see in the future:

• some OS-supported way to easily and reliably share notes between devices (macOS, W10 and Sailfish)
• bigger updates on the general look-and-feel (this appears to be coming with the version 3 soon), the late update of the Gallery apps functionality was in my opinion a very welcome one. Still the way the main background shows thrue the apps I find very nice and generally the menus work very smoothly.
• some form of roadmap or better estimates on future OS updates
• Xperias FM radio could be nice addition

In general I would say that the first version of Sailfish X was perhaps a 6/10. Now at Nurmonjoki the main issues have improved and currently I would give it a 7+/10. There are still issues that appear at least weekly, not real show-stoppers though. I must admit being a very low-demanding on my phone as I have very little apps. Nowadays it's still mostly phone, SMS, email, reddit and browser. At the moment the only reason I can think why I would replace my Xperia with Sailfish would be another Sailfish-supported phone with dual-sim :)

I am hoping that the future of Sailfish and Jolla brings more improvements. I am having high expectations for the version 3 that should be here soon, yay! I would very much like the ecosystem to thrive and get more momentum in the pressure of the big players.

I've now been using Sailfish X on my Xperia for exactly 366 days (thanks to 'Importand 'Important Days' from Jolla store), so let me present you a kind of a mini-review of how I've liked it so far. Before this I had a Jolla 1 as a daily driver since november 2015 (meaning it has been Sailfish-only for me for three years now!).

Hardware related:

• Sometimes (perhaps once a month) the device starts running hot and looking at Lighthouse's (from Jolla store) CPU info I can see that one of the CPU cores (I believe it has been usually core 5/6) has gone to constant 100%. Reboot fixes this.

• Camera is a big update from Jolla1, but suffers from software issues, see below.

• Battery life has been Ok for my use; I recharge daily and returning from work I am usually at about 60-70%.

• Still unstable switching between wifi and 3G. Weather-app loses connectibility almost daily when moving between wifi and 3G. Also at work switching between AP's (delivering the same ssid) fails and I need to re-enable wifi to get a working wifi connection.

• The audio out thrue headphones has heavy issues (noise and compression-like noises) and has forced me to use Bluetooth headphones.

• Bluetooth has improved, used to have weekly issues with headphones going mute and having to re-connect. Nowadays mostly stable.

• The fingerprint sensor was a welcomed addition, but so far I haven't been able to use it daily. I can teach the fingerprint and it usually works for awhile but then I start getting more and more non-recognizitions on trying to unlock the screen and I usually just go back to using the lock code.

More softwar-ish issues:

• YouTube in browser: can't select resolution. Also sometimes theres is a graphical glitch that artefacts start showing up on the pull-down menus of the OS when you have a video playing in browser (minimized). I used to use YTPlayer in Jolla1 where it worked much better than in-browser but in Xperia it usually fails to load videos at all.

• Browser: occasional glitches, in current version switching between YouTube's full-screen and normal view causes the normal screen showing a black screen. YouTube playback stops if another tab is opened. Menu system somewhat clunky.

• Sometimes the lock screen fails; the display comes up but the touchscreen won't. Meaning I can't unlock the screen. Usually fixes itself by repeatedly locking and unlocking the screen (and/or using the tip from these forums to cover up the proxmity sensor).

• In the current version it seems that the camera app will focus very well ONCE, but the following focusing attemps do not do well. If I restart the camera app it will again focus perfectly on the first try. This I really hope to be fixed in the future.

• Exchange support: started buggy (email often stopped syncing forcing to restart) but lately it has worked without problems.

• Phone app: ending call produces a network failure (+three-tone error beep), used to happen at almost all calls at first but in recent versions this has improved and now I see this very rarely.

• Location services: at the moment buggy, at least on my phone. All my photos are given the same (incorrect) coordinates and map apps give a false position. Running compas calibration did seem to help abit, but still it doesn't appear to be working. Haven't really used it, though.

• Android support; I use only a few, but generally the ones I have tried do work. Yle Areena works which is important for me for tv shows and at work I use Yammer.

• VPN support works nicely, big plus for me and my homelab :)

• Even being somewhat crude, I must admit that I like to be able to just have an SFTP connection to my phone and transfer files. Having used an iPhone and being forced to do eveything thrue iTunes I feel very much relieved how easily I can move files.

Some of the issues I mentioned might already have work-arounds or better apps available, I haven't done too much research. I would like to see the daily stuff being Sailfish apps as I usually keep the Android support off.

After all complains, I must give me appreciation to the OS itself being pretty stable nowadays. I often get uptimes of several weeks and my record was 31 days of uptime after I installed the latest OS version.

My favourite apps: Quickddit (reddit client), jBoy (Gameboy emulator), ownKeepass (Keepass-password store), Podcatcher (podcasts, somewhat unstable and would need updates) and Pan Transit (bus/tram stop tracking utility). Also big + for the ability to send gallery photos directly to Dropbox, I use it almost weekly.

What I would like to see in the future:

• some OS-supported way to easily and reliably share notes between devices (macOS, W10 and Sailfish)
• bigger updates on the general look-and-feel (this appears to be coming with the version 3 soon), the late update of the Gallery apps functionality was in my opinion a very welcome one. Still the way the main background shows thrue the apps I find very nice and generally the menus work very smoothly.
• some form of roadmap or better estimates on future OS updates
• Xperias FM radio could be nice addition

In general I would say that the first version of Sailfish X was perhaps a 6/10. Now at Nurmonjoki the main issues have improved and currently I would give it a 7+/10. There are still issues that appear at least weekly, not real show-stoppers though. I must admit being a very low-demanding on my phone as I have very little apps. Nowadays it's still mostly phone, SMS, email, reddit and browser. At the moment the only reason I can think why I would replace my Xperia with Sailfish would be another Sailfish-supported phone with dual-sim :)

I am hoping that the future of Sailfish and Jolla brings more improvements. I am having high expectations for the version 3 that should be here soon, yay! I would very much like the ecosystem to thrive and get more momentum in the pressure of the big players.

I've now been using Sailfish X on my Xperia for exactly 366 days (thanks to 'Important Days' from Jolla store), so let me present you a kind of a mini-review of how I've liked it so far. Before this I had a Jolla 1 as a daily driver since november 2015 (meaning it has been Sailfish-only for me for three years now!).

Hardware related:

• Sometimes (perhaps once a month) the device starts running hot and looking at Lighthouse's (from Jolla store) CPU info I can see that one of the CPU cores (I believe it has been usually core 5/6) has gone to constant 100%. Reboot fixes this.

• Camera is a big update from Jolla1, but suffers from software issues, see below.

• Battery life has been Ok for my use; I recharge daily and returning from work I am usually at about 60-70%.

• Still unstable switching between wifi and 3G. Weather-app loses connectibility almost daily when moving between wifi and 3G. Also at work switching between AP's (delivering the same ssid) fails and I need to re-enable wifi to get a working wifi connection.

• The audio out thrue headphones has heavy issues (noise and compression-like noises) and has forced me to use Bluetooth headphones.

• Bluetooth has improved, used to have weekly issues with headphones going mute and having to re-connect. Nowadays mostly stable.

• The fingerprint sensor was a welcomed addition, but so far I haven't been able to use it daily. I can teach the fingerprint and it usually works for awhile but then I start getting more and more non-recognizitions on trying to unlock the screen and I usually just go back to using the lock code.

  • Tap-to-wake doesn't work, the workaround kinda works but somtimes fail. Would love to see this working officially again.

More softwar-ish issues:

• YouTube in browser: can't select resolution. Also sometimes theres is a graphical glitch that artefacts start showing up on the pull-down menus of the OS when you have a video playing in browser (minimized). I used to use YTPlayer in Jolla1 where it worked much better than in-browser but in Xperia it usually fails to load videos at all.

• Browser: occasional glitches, in current version switching between YouTube's full-screen and normal view causes the normal screen showing a black screen. YouTube playback stops if another tab is opened. Menu system somewhat clunky.

• Sometimes the lock screen fails; the display comes up but the touchscreen won't. Meaning I can't unlock the screen. Usually fixes itself by repeatedly locking and unlocking the screen (and/or using the tip from these forums to cover up the proxmity sensor).

• In the current version it seems that the camera app will focus very well ONCE, but the following focusing attemps do not do well. If I restart the camera app it will again focus perfectly on the first try. This I really hope to be fixed in the future.

• Exchange support: started buggy (email often stopped syncing forcing to restart) but lately it has worked without problems.

• Phone app: ending call produces a network failure (+three-tone error beep), used to happen at almost all calls at first but in recent versions this has improved and now I see this very rarely.

• Location services: at the moment buggy, at least on my phone. All my photos are given the same (incorrect) coordinates and map apps give a false position. Running compas calibration did seem to help abit, but still it doesn't appear to be working. Haven't really used it, though.

• Android support; I use only a few, but generally the ones I have tried do work. Yle Areena works which is important for me for tv shows and at work I use Yammer.

• VPN support works nicely, big plus for me and my homelab :)

• Even being somewhat crude, I must admit that I like to be able to just have an SFTP connection to my phone and transfer files. Having used an iPhone and being forced to do eveything thrue iTunes I feel very much relieved how easily I can move files.

Some of the issues I mentioned might already have work-arounds or better apps available, I haven't done too much research. I would like to see the daily stuff being Sailfish apps as I usually keep the Android support off.

After all complains, I must give me appreciation to the OS itself being pretty stable nowadays. I often get uptimes of several weeks and my record was 31 days of uptime after I installed the latest OS version.

My favourite apps: Quickddit (reddit client), jBoy (Gameboy emulator), ownKeepass (Keepass-password store), Podcatcher (podcasts, somewhat unstable and would need updates) and Pan Transit (bus/tram stop tracking utility). Also big + for the ability to send gallery photos directly to Dropbox, I use it almost weekly.

What I would like to see in the future:

• some OS-supported way to easily and reliably share notes between devices (macOS, W10 and Sailfish)
• bigger updates on the general look-and-feel (this appears to be coming with the version 3 soon), the late update of the Gallery apps functionality was in my opinion a very welcome one. Still the way the main background shows thrue the apps I find very nice and generally the menus work very smoothly.
• some form of roadmap or better estimates on future OS updates
• Xperias FM radio could be nice addition

In general I would say that the first version of Sailfish X was perhaps a 6/10. Now at Nurmonjoki the main issues have improved and currently I would give it a 7+/10. There are still issues that appear at least weekly, not real show-stoppers though. I must admit being a very low-demanding on my phone as I have very little apps. Nowadays it's still mostly phone, SMS, email, reddit and browser. At the moment the only reason I can think why I would replace my Xperia with Sailfish would be another Sailfish-supported phone with dual-sim :)

I am hoping that the future of Sailfish and Jolla brings more improvements. I am having high expectations for the version 3 that should be here soon, yay! I would very much like the ecosystem to thrive and get more momentum in the pressure of the big players.