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Originally Posted by vitaminj View Post
I keep being tempted to go back to the N9 due to all the things you say, plus LPM and the small size for one-handed use.
Nobody seems to make a decent small phone these days. Apple for a few generations. Lumia, the 620 was the last decent one. Android, only the Sony Xperia "Compact"s and they are still Jolla-sized (borderline too big).

Problems I see switching back are:
  • Some of the online service capabilities have rotted
  • Some built-in stuff is quite poor (that team seem incapable of writing a non-awful email app for example, from N900 thru Jolla)
  • Battery craziness (4%!), although I hear there's a BME-thwacking fix.
  • GPS crapshoot, often coupled with the above to ruin your day when you want a map/checkin
  • Headphone jack has mic pins the wrong way round - ARGH
  • No Android app compatibility, which on Jolla plugs some gaps and gives me a few stupid game/social diversions. And Citymapper + banking, the only two vital missing things for me.



It is a bit, but I used it occasionally for bluetooth speaker pairing/switching. As well as tinkering pointlessly with some tags I bought. Would have been nice if they'd have implemented all the secure stuff so we had a small hope of doing payments over it, but never mind. That's what you get for a system marked as dead before launch. No support, no secure NFC, no Android, no BT 4.0, no proper USB-OTG. Oh what it could have been...
You're comletely right regarding the size (could be al little bigger, but must be a one-handed device).

Oh and the lack of the mic-pins, I hate it so much, that It's not possible to use earphones to controll the music-player.

On the other side, when I'm reading all the problems regarding whatsup/whatsapp I'm so happy to be so "asocial" (don't use any social-media-app).
 

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