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Re: JollaMobile : Jolla continues Nokia's excellent work on #MeeGo based smartphones

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Originally Posted by youmeego (Post 1337194)

will there be a jolla affordable(cheap low end) phone,

No, it will probably be a low, mid end phone with a high end price tag

Re: JollaMobile : Jolla continues Nokia's excellent work on #MeeGo based smartphones

They've said they're not going for the very top-end price wise, they're aiming for slightly less than that...
What that means hw wise is anyone's guess but if I were to guess; it'll mean hw that's mid-end* compared to the best Android hw that's out.
And I mean mid-end overall, it may be top-end or (touch-wood) industry leading in 1 or 2 (or more) areas.

Re: JollaMobile : Jolla continues Nokia's excellent work on #MeeGo based smartphones

"mid-end HW" running with "high-end SW" sounds very good to me.
Using less-than-the-latest chipsets and cpu means lower power requirements, longer battery life, more robust build.
All characters I appreciate in a mobile device. :D

Re: JollaMobile : Jolla continues Nokia's excellent work on #MeeGo based smartphones

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Originally Posted by juiceme (Post 1337230)

Using less-than-the-latest chipsets and cpu means lower power requirements, longer battery life, more robust build.

Not necessarily it's not always as simple as that, power draw/efficiency often improves with the latest silicon, not just performance.

Re: JollaMobile : Jolla continues Nokia's excellent work on #MeeGo based smartphones

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Originally Posted by jalyst (Post 1337243)

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Originally Posted by juiceme

Using less-than-the-latest chipsets and cpu means lower power requirements, longer battery life, more robust build.

Not necessarily it's not always as simple as that, power draw/efficiency often improves with the latest silicon, not just performance.

Sure, if you have patience to use the newer silicon and better processes to produce a design that is comparable in processing power to the older generation chipset, in fact building a less-than-the-latest design with latest processes.

However, the latest silicon design & manufacturing processes ae often used to pack more power into the same-sized or smaller physical container, and newer and inefficient OS&SW design then eats up the increased HW power.

What I would like to see is device with as open HW/FW/SW as possible, plenty of RAM & disk, average but reliable GPU, average CPU, good wlan&3g performance and really really really low power consumption.

Re: JollaMobile : Jolla continues Nokia's excellent work on #MeeGo based smartphones

Yeah, sorta, I'd much rather see them leverage the best designs, which are much better performing & (usage being the same) draw no more power in RW terms.
But that (most likely) won't happen, so I'll be happy with something a few notches down, so long as they haven't been talking BS about the openness of the sw.

Re: JollaMobile : Jolla continues Nokia's excellent work on #MeeGo based smartphones

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Originally Posted by jalyst (Post 1337261)

what if scandinavian design means exact same design as n9 and almost same cpu/gpu? One of the reasons is GPU drivers... Almost all todays new HW is Android GPU drivers only...

Re: JollaMobile : Jolla continues Nokia's excellent work on #MeeGo based smartphones