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Old 01-04-2015, 03:52 PM   #1
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Opinions on Jolla Phone with Sailfish OS?


What are your opinions on the Jolla Phone with Sailfish OS? Worth getting? 250 euro seems like a pretty good price imo.
 
Old 01-06-2015, 03:48 PM   #2
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when did the price change? my n9 is dead and I am considering between Samsung S3 (opensource cyanogenmod) and Jolla.
 
Old 01-06-2015, 04:01 PM   #3
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They were giving out 100€ vouchers in November http://www.reddit.com/r/Jolla/commen..._gift_voucher/ which meant that the price went from 350€ to 250€ AFAIK. And now it's for everybody https://mobile.twitter.com/JollaHQ/s...39401720406017

However, Jolla isn't 100% open source.
 
Old 01-06-2015, 04:09 PM   #4
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I would be looking for same size phone that runs cyanogenmod 11, it is hard to find, so maybe spiritual succedor of meego, Jolla would be better choice

They are now planning also tablet so support for software may last longer than Meego.
 
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Reading this thread "have you managed to convince your Andr/Apple loving friend to switch to Jolla" https://together.jolla.com/question/...itch-to-jolla/ I'm starting to wonder if Jolla really is worth its price even at 250.

BTW, I love this quote from the discussion page: "When I showed a few friends the Jolla and what it couldn't do, I was the laughing stock for about 5 minutes until we all needed our oxygen tanks to breathe, bearing in mind this was OS 1.0.0.5 (the beginning)."
 
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One Plus One is a phone shipping with CyanogenMod preinstalled, and it seems to be a quite popular phone.

But personally, I don't like Google and Android, and therefore would I rather go with an underdog such as Sailfish or Firefox OS.

Jolla and Sailfish OS definitely feel more sustainable than Meego.
 
Old 01-06-2015, 04:21 PM   #7
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Jolla seems to have some issues, such as caldav and carddav sync not working properly "New CardDav/CalDav support got to it working with owncloud?" https://together.jolla.com/question/...with-owncloud/

And it seems like even highly voted feature requests take a very long time to implement "[Wiki] Which features do you want to see done next?" https://together.jolla.com/question/...see-done-next/ For example "System-wide clipboard (copy-paste) capability" https://together.jolla.com/question/...te-capability/ doesn't seem to be fully implemented yet, even though it was requested over a year ago.

I'm just not so sure if I want to buy a fairly expensive phone with too many bugs and missing features. :-\ I can accept some issues when the phone costs <100$, which my current Firefox OS phone does, but at 250€... I'm not so sure.

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