I can't decided if I'm like this other side or not. I guess it all come down to the quality of the of the additions. At the moment I have happy meal quality in my mind.

sorry to sound so sarcastic, but from what i have seen so far... we haven't seen anything but prototypes
insist on plural, b/c sometimes they switch devices during an interview depending on what they want / have to show.
e.g. never actually saw the "theme bla-bla" changing after the back cover was switched.

and haven't seen a single Jolla device handed over to a journalist / bloger for full inspection.

great potential, but whatever the final device may look like still stands in the stars can't help feeling
proof of concept

only conclusion from the demos is that the bezel doesn't seem that big and like underlined in a demo by Martin ("chief designer") considering the importance of sliding the finger from the side, it makes sense to have a good "basis" to start that motion from, rather then

• having to overcome the resistance from the side of the device & swiping to far / strong / whatever
• putting the finger on the display not quite from the edge, which probably defeats the "swype" effect

just my 2 cents / gut feeling

not even the Sailfish shop is accessible right now
accept that what we have seen so far is a "proof of concept", not even alpha level
they can't demo any hardware feature except the swiping motion, which is merely an extension improvement of MeeGo's Swype.
they can't even take a picture yet
well, apparently Wi-Fi works, maybe GSM (SMS's) too, but that's about it for now

Two days have passed since the announcement, and we are getting a lot of ideas and visions. The imagination already goes beyond the sky limit. What I sincerely hope is that at the time it hits the market by the end of this year, the original phone shown 2 days ago will emerge with appropriate specifications. And I guess with this pre-order campaign, read "spreading the word and gathering opinions", Jolla shall have more than enough feedback for producing a true masterpiece. And we, pre-order lads, might be appreciated by them in form of letting us buy the phone for 400€ (the OH included), when it really could cost a lot more.
Btw, I happily parted with 100€ because I know I am supporting the right thing. And I know if things turn out to be bad (the phone and all related are no good), I will always be able to sell my OH at ebay and persuade somebody to buy the phone giving them my voucher as a gift. Until then, my N900 wil meet my needs as it always did, hopefully.

Well, AFAIK the typical Apple fanatic does not really care about it being "unibody" or if there is "multitasking" or not.
The typical Apple fanatic cares about it being an iSomething device by Apple (TM)

If Apple tomorrow introduced device exactly like this new Jolla device, it would be an instant success all over the world and the talk about it's new advanced features would not cease for months.

You need to realise it's not about the products, its about the brand.

Weel that's just shortsightedness on the part of the HW vendors, and it might be part licensing agreements with large OS partners (read: Microsoft) as it is more on the liking of closed source shops rather than the HW vendors to keep the drivers closed.

As for closed drivers keeping the chip internal design details hidden, yes that might be the purpose of it but if it's so then it is futile as competitors can (and do) reverse engineer the HW designs routinely as fast as the first chips roll of the FAB
This is not even "industrial espionage", it's called "corporate intelligence" or something like that, depends on your your company.

And about having open drivers, consider the most advanced network chipsets from Intel, for example. The company has its own team of people to develop the open source drivers for their cards and the people are active on Linux kernel mailing lists and DO answer your queries promptly. (which I know, having worked with them)

Well ya never know, if there is going to be more open source devices, sooner or later HW vendors will see that it's their obn benefit to have open drivers for theit chipsets/gadgets.

I also already pointed to this plain surface under 'the other half' but I don't think that Jolla is lying about the (boundless) possibilities of the backcover.

I think that this surface under 'the other half' is an over removable cover under which you can see the battary and card slot and other things like some contacts to the attached hardware... They never showed us the back (without the other half) exactly till now and nobody came up with the idea of asking to show the battery.
So I think you can also replace this black cover with an other one which is adjusted to specific 'other halfs'' with e.g. cavities for some contacts...

Edit:
BTW: I just reading this and don't believe anymore that Jolla considered the option of a hardware keyboard because SailfishOS is only working in portrait mode at the moment...

I can't be the only one who can see this:

What's so special about a NFC tag planted on the cover? That's how the cover conveys the color to the device, or at least that's how it should.

Yes, the real split should be, where the green line is, not where the red line is... otherwise the design does not really make sense.

@incognito

I guess he's mainly just searching for more evidence of what you already alluded to in your last post:
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...&postcount=418
It's disappointing that they're "show boating" this "Other Half" concept, but have very little to show for it.
Aside from superficial/boring uses (which themselves are still quite vague when it comes to detail).
This Other Half concept is their one true "standout hw" trump card, they need to do it well...