vlad_dracul | # 2091 | 2013-12-19, 12:07 | Report

Finally received my Jolla, here's my first impressions:
- Feels nice in the hand, not too heavy, though a bit large for me, I'll have to get used to it.
- The screen is very nice, colours are good, it's a traditional RGB stripe, not pentile, the resolution doesn't bother me.
- OS feels smooth overall
Some annoyances:
- I'm not very convinced of the pulley menus, it will take some time to get used to it
- I synced it to the N9 over bluetooth, but I couldn't find how to initiate the sync from the Jolla, had to do it from the N9; also it only copied the contacts, not the calendar events and notes.Birthdays did appear, but over two days due to a timezone messup (but also had this problem when syncing N9 to Funambol using SyncML).
- The volume rocker doesn't control the ringing volume like the N9, I guess Jolla wants us to use the ambience instead, although configuring the ambience isn't as intuitive as I would like.

att | # 2092 | 2013-12-19, 12:41 | Report

Yes, I know many average joes that don't use calendar, whatsapp or even browser. Many of them still use mail and sms.

att | # 2093 | 2013-12-19, 12:45 | Report

Many of the average joes don't call customer services. They ask their relatives to help out with their smartphones. They hate calling the customer services of phone companies because they don't understand what the customer services are talking (too technical) and because some of those customer services start selling extra services.

TrD | # 2094 | 2013-12-19, 12:49 | Report

I'm not using calendar. Well...I do but pretty much only to check what week of the year it is. Also I do have whatsapp but I have used it...once? maybe twice. Mail I only set up on every phone for checking tracking info on orders, never sent a mail from phone.

ggabriel | # 2095 | 2013-12-19, 12:51 | Report

In the press release actually: https://jolla.com/media/documents/13...ss_Release.pdf

att | # 2096 | 2013-12-19, 13:03 | Report

If you have multiple records for one person, you can merge them with link command.

It is there but limited on some applications like Email app.

Hmm, my Jolla is very loud when calling. I had to lower the volume.

olento | # 2097 | 2013-12-19, 13:55 | Report

Ok, I have to apologize for the slighly negative tone of this message. I do understand that the Jolla developer group is small and not all the features can be ready when it's still in the beta stage.

Migrating from 1½ year old Samsung Galaxy S2 (rooted, with custom AOKP firmware) with extended battery. Still having 1-1½ days of battery life with my normal use.

My current grievances and main reasons for not using the Jolla as my daily driver:

- lack of Google Calendar (this is a must)
- lack of Wifi Hotspot (I saw somebody mentioning console hack for USB tethering, and it should be adequate for laptop use, but I'm using also wifi-only iPad and thus need the Wifi. Also I don't want to carry USB cable around to connect my laptop to internet. I'm travelling a lot and there aren't always free wifi connections around )

MInor annoyances, but not really deal-breakers:
- slight stuttering when scrolling around. This happens everywhere, not just on browser but also when scrolling up/down "System settings". For now the SGS2 seems more fluid and responsive.
- the scrolling is slow on browser (i.e., i cannot speed up the scrolling speed with subsequent swipes and so scrolling around large web pages is annoying).
- lack of horizontal view on browser
- volume rocker button on my Jolla seems quite flimsy, there's ~ 0.5-0.8mm of leeway in the direction of front-backside. Haven't found any mention of this in earlier posts, so can somebody please confirm is this normal or should I RMA it? The power button seems ok.
- the hollow backside because of the Other Half makes the phone feel quite cheap. I should find something to stuff the phone with. maybe Blu-Tack (sinitarra)
- I miss the smart dialing system on my current phone. I'm not sure how to describe it, but let's try: To phone "john", i just dial 56 (jkl, nmo) and it starts making suggestions from the contacts list based on those number/alphabet combinations that they match. It's so much faster than selecting "J" and then scrolling around the contacts. Also it's a free search, so it matches all the fields. Is the contact list categorized based on surname or first name? It should't matter!

I do hope that these issues will be resolved pretty soon, and if I'm mistaken and there are already solutions, please do correct me.

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gaelic | # 2098 | 2013-12-19, 13:58 | Report

So in fact you're using mail

And come on guys: I've written: "calendar, mail OR browser"
Most people are using one or more of these applications.

minimos | # 2099 | 2013-12-19, 14:13 | Report

Well, Marc Dillon was tweeting just a few days ago that:

aegis | # 2100 | 2013-12-19, 14:29 | Report

Apple never removed support for MTP. OSX doesn't support MTP in the OS directly.

What they apparently broke is Google's Android File Transfer program at http://www.android.com/filetransfer/ which no longer works properly under OSX 10.9. It contains it's own libmtp library and USB libraries.

In my experience of it, it never worked that well under previous releases of the OS either with official Android devices such as my Nexus 7 and an old HTC. It's been stuck at v1.0 since release.

I presume at some point Google will fix their app if possible but I don't see how Jolla can be relying on Google to fix an app so Jolla's customers can use a USB cable connection. On the N9 we had 'Nokia Link' on the Mac which wasn't too bad for a piece of Nokia Mac software. There were some complete stinkers over the years.