Jolla phone is a colorful, Sailfish OS-powered Android alternative

[fatclue_98]

Can't wait for mine to arrive! Should be here tomorrow. To me Nokia's Swipe UI is the best mobile UI ever done, so naturally I had to get its follow up.
Some of the Maemo purists are not too happy about the inclusion of Android app support, but personally after N900 and N9 I have no problem with that at all.

Most likely my Lumia 920 will remain as my main phone and Jolla will be my play around/secondary phone. Time will tell.

Can't wait to read about your "first impressions". Never tried Meego but it seems similar to webOS.

 

[tissotti]

Can't wait to read about your "first impressions". Never tried Meego but it seems similar to webOS.

Sorry I haven't been too active here for the past months.

I have been enjoying the phone quite a bit. Loving to get back to truly controlling what's happening on the device after a bit over a year of only iOS and WP devices. Also fully gesture based UI, like Nokia's MeeGo Swipe UI is so refreshing once again.
Though just like with N9, Lumia 800 or Z10 I would not recommend it to a friend. Even with that surprisingly seamless Android app support, getting example Google Play Store installed to your Jolla is not as easy as just finding package somewhere and installing it. I knew this buying the OS and device, but your average smartphone user would not bother.

As a negative for something I was not expecting has been that battery life is very poor. Something you haven't seen since the iPhone 3GS, Droid, N900 etc 65nm single core days. In a heavy use you should get by till evening, but what's especially bad is that just on standby the battery might not last the whole day. Reason for this is that Jolla had to change the SoC from ST-Ericsson chip in June to Qualcomm after ST-Ericsson got in to trouble. Resulting in less than optimal time to do optimization on battery life. Thankfully Jolla has reported that because of this software updates will improve this.

 

[Qtweeder]

the battery life issue, is being worked on, apparently partly relating to some NFC power drain, a bug of sorts, which should be fixed eventually. liking mine a lot, even though the new update is un-downloadable atm, due to server overload

 

[radmanvr]

its it pronounced jolla or holla

 

[Qtweeder]

its it pronounced jolla or holla

pronounced yolla

 

[fatclue_98]

pronounced yolla

Thanks for the clarification. My Cuban-ness made me think it was pronounced "ho-ya" as in jewel. Maybe they ought to stick with Sailfish. Those of us around the world that speak Romance languages will have issues.