Thread: JollaMobile : Jolla continues Nokia's excellent work on #MeeGo based smartphones
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NokiaFanatic is offline NokiaFanatic
2012-07-17 , 13:09
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Originally Posted by specc View Post
ATM I have lost every little inch of confidence for Jolla. The phone will be closed, no hacking possible, a consumer device. A "developer version" will be released, so what? The Galaxy Nexus covers all that - and more. Heck, the Galaxy SII/III can be used for devs and hackers.

I have seen so much just gone up in smoke regarding smartphones, I have no faith left. But now I know why.

The basics, it IS all about the ecosystem. A smartphone is a tool that interacts with the ecosystem. That is all it is. Without an ecosystem a smartphone is nothing, it's just a bloated dumb phone. There is one exception form this basic rule, and that is the N900, a smartphone that is just as much PC as it is a phone. If only Jolla could make such a device (dual/quad core, 4+ inch screen, HW keyboard), but no, they have to **** it up instead.

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And in comes Jolla. They want to be an "alternative". Well, I don't want an "alternative", I don't want yet another closed system. WP7 and later WP8 will satisfy my needs for communication, and if not then Android will, I may even go iOS, but not after S40. I don't want a "developer device", I have no need for that. The only alternative for me would be a fully open device, a modernized N900 with HW keyboard (E7 form factor), full HW stack (USB2go, HDMI, FM rx/tx etc etc). THAT is the alternative I want.
Firstly, I think you have absolutely ridiculous expectations and secondly, I don't think you "get" what Jolla are trying to do.

On the expectation part, you do realise that Jolla are a tiny start-up with about 100 employees (Nokia have over 100,000 employees, Apple over 20,000 employees, even RIM have 10,000)? Even with 10,000 employees, do you think it's even remotely possible to build and test an entire device, OS and features from scratch and bring the product to market in one year?

As for what Jolla are trying to do, they have made it perfectly clear that they are trying to bring a true flavour of Linux to a phone. Whether it's x86/ARM or dual/quad core is completely irrelevant. What we're talking about here is delivering a more open, more powerful, PC like experience to a mobile device. If we get that, on any kind of remotely decent hardware, I will probably buy it. The alternative is a dying platform (Harmattan) or a platform that is vapourware (Tizen).