Good old Mr Douglas Adams got it right, then, 35 years ago. Devices used to be operated by buttons, knobs and levers, nowadays you just vaguely wave your hand and hope. When an alarm wakes me up, eyes still stuck closed, am I expected to remember which way the phone is turned so I don't swipe down when I mean up?

Someone's also mentioned the control bar in the default browser. It opens by scrolling up, on the assumption that you scroll up when you've finished reading the page. That wouldn't work for me on this very website. I scroll up when I've finished reading the thread and want to go back to the list on the right. And that is on an N900 in landscape mode, which Jolla apparently does not support yet.

In other words, I don't regret at all that I've missed the preorder boat

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