View Single Post
ste-phan's Avatar
Posts: 1,196 | Thanked: 2,708 times | Joined on Jan 2010 @ Hanoi
#149
Originally Posted by benny1967 View Post
Probably a matter of taste (trying to be polite), but the Jolla phone is really a remarkable work of art IMHO. While all other phones look alike, it shows how you can do something very different, yet still aesthetic and very functional. Using both the Samsung Galaxy and the Jolla phone, I have to say the Jolla isn't only prettier but a lot better to hold in your hands.

As you seem to have an eye for detail, do you agree its beauty is only skin deep?
And in the light of a Samsung my 30 USD toaster is also a piece of art and example of understanding of ergonomics.. Samsung even succeeds to randomize button placement in the most inconvenient way.
Subjectively, IMO there is no candybar phone that is a joy to hold. It feels alien in my medium sized hands, has dropped more than other phones due to that. I purchased it because I had no choice.

Appreciation by outside world: Nobody ever asked any question about my Jolla or gave me a compliment about the "piece of art" I was carrying be it white with Lastu birch wooden back or orange the first one.

Instead carrying a Jolla makes me feel like I am blending in the crowd like an actor in that scene of the Walking Dead where the swordsgirl has two zombies walking on a leech on each side of her to mask her own smell as not to stir the zombies into attack.

Recently people are rarely out to spot different phone OS or trying to convert you using the iPhone or Androids around them - they feel at ease knowing everybody is the same now and bother with their social networking.

Especially when I am browsing the internet on the train I am masking my "being unlike" with the Android back button under the Firefox browser. I don't want to do that but I a feel a few Android apps, like Firefox are essential to me for enjoying the Jolla.

Luckily there is FBReader native and a great native IRC client amongst other native gems!

Carrying a Jolla phone IMO is not helping to spread the word about Jolla and Sailfish. There are few situations where my phone can stand out to attract attention (FM radio tx and Camera still does it for the Nokia)
I feel like I am promoting the Android OS like I felt I was actually promoting Lumia in the months I had my Nokia N9.

To Jolla: give me a Sailfish software license with a big sticker "powered by Jolla reborn / revived / re-activated / inspired by Sailfish" to put on the back of Galaxy / Nexus / Kindle or even better, something with a keyboard if that exists.

I am already supporting Jolla this way (sorry for the N900, yes.. it is actually my phone and I feel relieved returning to it after 2 years, what does that say: lots of work to be done)

Name:  15190848054_fe37968005_k.jpg
Views: 657
Size:  28.3 KB