Thread: SailfishOS Update10 discussions
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2014-12-11 , 19:47
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Originally Posted by aegis View Post
Just switched my N9 on for the first time in months to see what the situation with Nokia closing stores is going to do to it. A: Nothing yet by the looks of it.

I swiped into the Events view and remembered what is so, so missing on my Jolla. Sigh. Sort it out Sailors! I hope we're not going to wait for the Tablet in May for some of those Sailfish 2.0 features.

The N9 seemed really, really slow though compared to my Jolla, even after waiting for it to catch up on everything since August; the last time I switched it on. I also forgot how pretty the solid colours and the inky black OLED screen are compared with Sailfish's transparencies and LCD screen. Oh Nokia!
Agree. It's also in dire need of status / notification bar at the top. Having to half swipe out of applications / swipe up from home screen to see time, date, network info, wifi and any notifications is pretty bad, both when actively using the phone, or it's just sitting on your desk. It breaks workflow, takes time and is totally unergonomic. Only phone that doesn't have this feature, and it's sorely lacking.

WRT to OLED. The new AMOLED on the Samsung Note 4 and Note 4 EDGE is absolutely spectacular, but whilst I loved the blacks on the N9 (and active lock screen), colour accuracy and banding were extremely poor. Terrible as the Jolla's LCD is for a phone of its price in 2014, I'd still take it over the N9's screen. I haven't seen any phones in person using AUO's OLED units since the N9, so not sure what they're like now. All the Chinese phones with OLEDs that I've seen (in person) this year were using lower bin / previous gen Samsung panels; they were very good, but not in the same league as the current Samsung phablets. Whilst a good quality OLED on the next Jolla might be nice, I don't think they have anything like enough buying power to get it at a reasonable price, so it's very unlikely. Honestly, that's not terrible, since a good quality FHD would be a gigantic upgrade from the ultra-low quality qHD screen on the existing phone.

But as far as a new phone is concerned. A friend living in Tampere heard some bad news (rumours) ... they haven't had enough cash and are struggling to develop a new one.