Sailfish Demoed For ENGADGET on N950
Apologies for the lack of input recently, but our service provider (BT to name names) neglected to fix a local fault in our area which affected our internet (and phone line) for 3 weeks! It’s been really frustrating not having internet and you realise how reliant you become on such services.
Anyway, so we’ve got some catching up to do on the Jolla updates and will be doing so over the coming days.
In the meantime, here is a really nice demo of Sailfish running on an N950 with Vesa Matti from Jolla and Myriam Joire from Engadget.
Wishing you all a fantastic New Year for 2013 – Sail On!!
We missed you. Welcome back with good news as this video from the greatest tech blog Engadget. Did you saw that Jolla itself refer to your poll to select a HW format? Congrats!
HNY 2013
Thanks Act and HNY to you too!! And no our internet connection is still crippling as since the work was carried out they have dropped our speed to 117kb/s so everything is verrrrrry sloooooow still. They promised to fix it this weekend so fingers crossed then we can get busy again!!
Welcome back! I miss U!
Thanks and we missed you too!
I though you switched to Windows Phone
That is a BIG LOOOOOL made me pee my pants slightly (lol)!
I just read that google are making it very difficult for WP users to access services like youtube/gmail/google maps…. oh dear poor Nokia! 
In the meantime, still using my N9 until Jolla brings us the beautiful fruit of their labour! 
It’s isn’t even possible to use maps.google.com on the N9. The site was working on Firefox till they decide to block it. I think that they don’t like Nokia Drive.
nice
Still curious about a lot of things, especially when it comes to their first phone release. I am waiting so much for this thing to show up. I already like everything in their UI concept, but…
A slideout phys. keyboard and a built-in terminal application are my main concerns. A robust phone case design, a decent camera and stuff like the n900 status led + unlock button wouldn’t hurt either.
From pictures to judge, n950 developer phone proved that a physical keyboard doesn’t have to be clunky (which seems to be one thing that scare off the “regular” users).
If they also come up with a nice SDK for Qt Creator just to download and get started with right away, Jolla could be unbeatable.
And, what countries will they target? For my own sake, I hope they will find some partner or sales channel in Sweden.
An idea just came to my head: Why not try designing hot-pluggable cases suitable for different purposes. user profiles or scenarios (not just designed for being shiny and attractive).
For the everyday use, one case that is designed to fit in your hand when you hold it like a regular phone (moulded so that fingers and palm sink comfortably into the case sides…). One for the landscape terminal guy where the backside is moulded to nicely fit the four holding fingers). And maybe one for the gamer kind of guy in landscape mode, where the phone edges expand with two gaming controls, one analog stick and one cross, where the casing itself connects to the phone usb port. Oh, I sort of see this it in front of my eyes, but can’t explain it. I just imagine it would kick ass if done properly.
Just make one phone to rule them all
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When I’m very honest, I like a lot of the succesor of MeeGo but I don’t like the four shortcuts below the taskmanager. I like it more the N9 way and hope they will let you decide how you want it.
I want also an option on the phone to invert the text and background on the internet so you can read white text at a black background on an AMOLED screen on the internet. I’ve only seen this in a view programs but not for the internet.
And I haven’t seen how Sailfish is working with RSS feeds. Since I’ve the N9 I’m using feeds a lot because they are just showing up on the homescreen when you connect to the internet. It’s just the most easy way to read all the news I’ve ever used.
I hope Jolla will release an amazing phone for Europe!
I absolutely agree with you! I’d love that… And more than this… I find the Ubuntu-Phone docked concept very interesting, too. Unhappily It would be impossible that both companies share resources in order to give us the best of both approaches. I’ll probably buy Jolla device when it comes out but I’d really like to see several Linux companies working together.
How can be the app closed?