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posted 2018-11-13 23:34:07 +0300

Jolla 3.0.0.8 - was it really worth increasing the Major version number?

To be honest, I don't think so. The colours are maybe brighter but the same issues have now been here for years.

  • Top of list, mediocre to nearly unusable browser. It takes simply ages to load pages like www.spiegel.de/schlagzeilen or www.post.de, that is if they load at all. A simple mostly text only page like Wikipedia loads OK but that is about all. And unfortunately webcat isn't really any better.
  • Entries like hotels from contacts don't show up at all when the phone is connected to an automotive infotainment over bluetooth. What is so difficult about sorting by surname and first name or if neither is present by company and treating company name as a surname in this case?
  • Calender and Email client are as basic as ever. Even the N9 was better here
  • VPN : OK it's new but I have never been able to get it working with a Lancom router. I'll try again with 3.x. A good tutorial or guide would be a great help.

And from the update experience, tendency is worse than for any previous ones. I have three Jolla 1 and 1 tablet. The tablet is an improvement worked first time but the Jolla 1, two out of three updated OK but the third one needed about five attempts including at least two power/volume resets and one battery removal.

All in all, a bit of a disappointment.

Jolla 3.0.0.8 - was it really worth increasing the Major version number?

To be honest, I don't think so. The colours are maybe brighter but the same issues have now been here for years.

  • Top of list, mediocre to nearly unusable browser. It takes simply ages to load pages like www.spiegel.de/schlagzeilen or www.post.de, that is if they load at all. A simple mostly text only page like Wikipedia loads OK but that is about all. And unfortunately webcat isn't really any better.
  • Entries like hotels from contacts don't show up at all when the phone is connected to an automotive infotainment over bluetooth. What is so difficult about sorting by surname and first name or if neither is present by company and treating company name as a surname in this case?
  • Calender and Email client are as basic as ever. Even the N9 was better here
  • VPN : OK it's new but I have never been able to get it working with a Lancom router. I'll try again with 3.x. A good tutorial or guide would be a great help.

And from the update experience, tendency is worse than for any previous ones. I have three Jolla 1 and 1 tablet. The tablet is an improvement worked first time but the Jolla 1, two out of three updated OK but the third one needed about five attempts including at least two power/volume resets and one battery removal.

All in all, a bit of a disappointment.