Sailfish: New Demo With Marc Dillon
Here’s the latest demo from Jolla showing off a few more features in the Sailfish OS.
In the video we can see that ambience brings some more customisability in the form of altering not only the colour scheme but the settings as well. Here Marc shows that, for instance, you could have a ‘Work’ ambience or a ‘Party’ ambience to reflect what you are doing at any given time.
So some more pieces of the Sailfish jigsaw coming together – and you can clearly see Whatsapp running there in the home-screen multitasking view so that’s one of our priority must have apps spoken for!
Another photo was leaked a few days ago showing that you can access some key features with a simple swipe down from the top to quickly launch into eg. settings, camera, phone, silent profile, right from the lockscreen:
There’s nothing new on show here. Work? Party? No real explanation or demonstration. To me it looks like Ambience is just a grand way of saying profile. In any event, I want Sailfish to deliver more than posh profiles. I want the power user option and control that no other OS offers today. The BB10 user interface is a near straight lift of Harmattan and Sailfish appears to be very similar to Harmattan too. BB10 is limping along with little success. Sailfish cannot rely on eye candy alone to attract customers.
Looks like it will be LCD display
Notice that there’s no clock on the screen in standby, a dead giveaway it’s not LED, like the n9 before it :’(
Thats funny. just tapping fingers. What’s new? Ambience changer is a simple signal image processing code that a master student can easily write. Why the icons of android and sailfish are different? why dont present any app usage ? and many more why?! I hope we see more soon.
no notification LED ????
is it confirmed?
Just to clarify, I am really looking forward to the device, just the lack of oled will be a major bummer.
This was the killer features of my n8. When I reluctantly went to a lumia 920, this is the feature I missed most (followed closely by how well the n8 interoperated with all my devices.. lumia with none..). I cant count how many times I turn off the lights at night, then have to turn them back on to find my 920.
Now if a phone maker could make lcd with partial backlights which were energy efficient, sure, I’d be interested. but until then, led seems a much better technology fit for me, and that is now based entirely on experience, rather than what the phoneboys who haven’t tried both believe
I really believe in sailfish, and I like the jolla hardware. imo, the split design is, like the n9, ahead of it’s time. but the phone is, after all, mid range in price and features, and it’s important to keep that in mind, not pretend that a mid range price phone is going to have everything hardware wise like a top of the range phone e.g. sgs4.
I’ll still be picking one up, have preordered (as much as an Australian can). This will be the first phone that I’ve purchased outright, so the relatively mid range price tag has made that decision a lot easier.
I suddenly realized that too – that one I’m really gonna miss.
I see the “glass half empty” crowd have arrived.
I love the music
you can download it from there http://jolla.com/press/
I’ve it already on mine N9.
no progress… maybe they’ve adopted matrix management.
Actually that is the best demo yet. It seems like the SailfishOS has gone into the final phase, where the last layer of finish is applied.
It finally looks polished and delivery-ready
Hopefully they will copy from Nokia E series features.
Not usability that will be much better, but all the nice tricks that can speed and easy your real life.
About Android apps I hope they have done benchmarking, but will be nice if they want to increase RAM, 2GB will be better for performance, will satisfy a lot of users of Android apps in the beginning and will cost much less than a HD display (useless in my point of view, but this is a personal choice).
Please please please please please please pretty please make it AMOLED with sleeping screen.
Looks great….
I hope everyone appreciates the great work done and the
quality of the first release of their phone.
Honestly so far its is heads and shoulders above anyone else’s first
release
Kepp up the great work Jolla!!