Comments on: #JollaLoveDay: Q&A

By: Shane

Shane — Mon, 02 Sep 2013 06:52:02 +0000

How much longer must we wait to get the remaining major gaps of info cleared-up…

By: jolla qwertz +

jolla qwertz + — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 17:50:33 +0000

I am one of those who is still using the first n900 because there never was a good device coming out after it featuring a linux with hardwarekeyboard. As it is getting older and older it starts to make troubles and I really fear the day ifJolla won’t come out with a hardwarekeyboard. but I think there are already plans for it from a company. I hope it will have backlight keys, too.

By: Andrew Jones

Andrew Jones — Thu, 23 May 2013 18:36:45 +0000

I agree as well. I’m still using my Nokia N900 ( on my second keyboard ) for phone duties, music and podcast broadcasting in the car and occasional terminal access. I’m holding out for a physical landscape keyboard in a new (ideally unix-like) phone. If the €100 “other half” is a keyboard Jolla can have my money now. (An FM transmitter would be nice as well!).

By: zazuge

zazuge — Thu, 23 May 2013 15:56:45 +0000

I agree completly
I’m still using my N900 an nothing in the phone market to this day can beat it
I’m planning to by a N9 because its the latest Linux phone just in case (because i can’t find any N950 nearbe)
though the N900 is a little bit thick but it had no problem sliding in my pocket as opposed to other touchonly huge screen phones
if the N900 had a screen as big as its frame like the N9 and was little bit as sleek
it would be the perfect profesionnel phone

By: JollaTides

JollaTides — Wed, 22 May 2013 21:47:57 +0000

Hi Aaron, I had the same criticism and had confirmation from Martin (Chief Designer) that the bezel will be made smaller. :-)

By: JollaTides

JollaTides — Wed, 22 May 2013 19:00:35 +0000

Funny analogy there Ben….:-) the point is, I’ve been advocating QWERTY’s since the birth of this blog so I’m on your side and understand your POV. I was just saying that maybe the people who shout about QWERTY’s do so without having had a good experience with a decent touchscreen keyboard. I know from personal experience, that my view of touchscreen keyboards was tarnished by bad implementations in maemo (not really needed), meego (not bad but not great) and symbian (awful). Having had the benefit of using a really good screen keyboard, I was just playing devils advocate for all those people who may have been in my shoes. I still wholeheartedly believe that if Jolla provide a snap on QWERTY keyboard as an option with ‘the other half’ this would definitely be the best of both worlds. http://jollatides.com/2012/07/19/my-dream-jolla-mobile-with-detachable-modular-slide-out-qwerty/

By: Determinist

Determinist — Wed, 22 May 2013 18:45:06 +0000

Briliant remark!

By: Ben Opp

Ben Opp — Wed, 22 May 2013 16:40:29 +0000

…if you need to wipe on the toilet, there is always the option to use your bare hands. toilet paper is not a total necessity.
:-D

By: Ben Opp

Ben Opp — Wed, 22 May 2013 16:35:56 +0000

Well the wording “we can manage” is very telling here. It means that a hardware keyboard is the real thing, and on-screen typing is a way to “manage without it”.
I think it’s become more or less pointless to argue about what kinds, speeds and improvements there are to virtual keyboards. If, like me, you’re a person who wants a hardware keyboard, your gonna want a hardware keyboard, because you just like it better, it’s what suits your needs and anything else is a trade-off. If you’ve decided to be content with other solutions, you “won’t mind” it not being there, but there are other who want other things.
I wonder if Jolla look at any of the discussions going on in a number of forums about their new device. If they do, it would quickly become evident that the demand is there.

However, I have not seen a single video yet that shows how on-screen text input is handled in Sailfish OS, and just because very advanced technologies exist to ease the pains of a virtual kb (as seen for instance on BB10), it doesn’t mean Sailfish is going to employ any of them (they’d have to license them at a high cost or develop it themselves, which would take too long to reach a state-of-the-art level).
Implementation of vkb was terrible in Maemo, bad in Symbian, and not very good in Meego – it just seems to be a topic that traditionally doesn’t interest the Nokia developers very much (many of the Jolla devs Jolla aren’t anymore, but used to be in Nokia’s service). With all the shiny, innovative UI awesomeness if the Sailfish UI, I rather expect them to keep focussing on that while upholding the Finnish tradition of neglecting the on-screen typing issue and present some backwards, ready-made solution…
I can deal with that if they just give me a real keyboard instead!

By: Magheinz

Magheinz — Wed, 22 May 2013 06:21:51 +0000

A Bluetooth-keyboard is onl ypossible to be used if you dont’t have to hold the phone n the hand.
I’m realy often using the keyboard in the subway, bus etc.
Softkeyboardson the screen are a big shit because they use to muxh of the screen.
Thats not usable if you use a ssh- or a rdesktop-connection to a server or something other.
I’m afraid that his phone will just be a lifestyleproduct and not a realy compareble product for working like my n900…