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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.

Last edited by olento; 2013-12-19 at 13:58.
 

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