Comments on: Fresh Off The Press: HERE Maps/Drive Beta Android Port For Jolla

By: Kea

Kea — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 17:18:05 +0000

Have installed HD voice (male, UK English ) and tried it today. It worked, although a bit slowly. Map is very clear. One problem: sounds on my phone are too soft, volume too low, so in the car I don’t hear voice guidance of this app.

By: Kea

Kea — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 10:55:05 +0000

When I tried it a second time, I succeeded in downloading Here: in Aptoide is mentioned with tiny grey letters that you can triy another store. That’s what I did and so I reached the boli13 store. Just tap on the grey letters for another store.

By: Kea

Kea — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 11:55:24 +0000

Unfortunately it is not possible to download Here Maps, on my Jolla. Within Aptoide I get the message that ‘this store does not exist’ (BOLI3) and : an error occurred.

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Wed, 22 Oct 2014 17:24:17 +0000

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By: Rosemary

Rosemary — Thu, 09 Oct 2014 16:40:23 +0000

You can’t type the destination. It shows as empty whatever you type in it.

By: parastar

parastar — Tue, 07 Oct 2014 22:09:23 +0000

The Android compatibility, was supposed to bridge the gap of missing native applications, it is not supposed to be a permanent solution. At the moment promoting HERE maps and Younited as Android apps does not help Jolla. I also understand that Jolla has to work really hard just to improve SailfishOS too.

I use my Jolla phone as my primary phone and I cannot afford to experiment with beta versions of Android apps. It’s close to a year now since SailfishOS is released, and I think it is time now to see high quality native apps released. I think that HERE maps and Younited running as Android apps is a missed chance for all of us.

By: silta

silta — Tue, 07 Oct 2014 19:50:10 +0000

I bought a Jolla to leave Android, but because there is no native navigation, I installed HERE for Android.
For now it seems not very useful on Jolla.
At first all maps are stored at the device and it is not possible to change to the removable sdcard.
The second is the data connection popup, that shows all 5 to 10 seconds just as the app gets GPS connection, although HERE is in offline mode.
What a pity.

By: C C

C C — Mon, 06 Oct 2014 17:24:29 +0000

Problem is that as things currently stand, the Android Apps (working on Jolla) work far better and are way more featured than the native Sailfish ones. Here Maps on the Jolla / Sailfish is absolutely awful. Slow, laggy, missing major features, bad UI and battery drain is epic. Yet a leaked pre-release version of Here for Android optimised for recent Samsung phones is far more viable on the Jolla than the seemingly abandoned native app (no improvements since release). So the question people have to ask themselves is, is there any point getting a Jolla (or using Sailfish) when the native app situation is so lacking and the default native apps are terrible (Here, Browser, E-mail) or lacklustre (phone, messaging, contacts). After the major OS updates in 1.09, Jolla really need to concentrate on improving the core apps and UX, or face even more of their userbase going inactive.

By: Istvan Prosinger

Istvan Prosinger — Mon, 06 Oct 2014 12:13:36 +0000

No. Something is wrong with having the wrong options and focusing vast energy into something that will NOT WORK (android compatibility). Jolla insists on Android compatibility so much that I don’t see why they don’t just put an Android OS in it. This way it’s _unreliable_ and sailfish misses _basic_ functionality….
Mark stating that Jolla will run Android apps better that Android itself is a nonsense that just prooves my point. One who wants an Android phone will NOT buy Jolla, please realise that.