Posts by banalyzer 58 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Apr 2014
They will investigate and speak some of the above, they will never require that openreach be hived off as a separate company as it should have been some years back.
It is the only real way to open competition properly. Openreach is more akin to network rail, it is the largest backbone infrastructure in the country and companies should hire access from them on a very level playing field.
There is no longer any excuse to allow openreach to remain part of BT.
I bought mine when it was €399, it's nice that the quantity they have sold has enabled them to drop the price by €50. The OS was at version 1.03 and has been regularly updated and is now at 1.08.
When I first got it, there where known issues with MMS and 4G, these have now been dealt with.
I have had no issues with call quality, it reminds me of my old nokia 3310 in that it still operates well with only one bar of signal.
The camera is not the best on a phone but is more than adequate, with the option of standard form or 16:9 photographs.
Sailfish is still under development and keeps improving. It is already very fluid and smooth in operation. The Dalvik virtual machine is really very good and is capable of running the google play store if you want to do that. The Yandex store that is used if you install the DVM ( I don't know if that is automatic now ) is a little deficient in terms of volume of apps, as is the native warehouse but both are slowly improving.
I do recommend putting it in developer mode, it will download a bash terminal which then gives you access to the system as a whole and root as well. It also opens up a lot of applications that are command line from the warehouse.
This is not a smart phone, this is a mobile GNU/Linux system with a very good communication system that happens to do good voice as well.
As long as they don't stuff it full of provider carp it should do ok.
Good luck Jolla, it's a good system, it deserves to succeed.
Although generally correct, I think you'll find that the perceived bias comes from the presumption that a patent is legally valid in the first place leading to :-
Rule 1 The patent is valid
Rule 2 If the patent is not valid see rule 1.
Once the USPTO started handing out patents like M&Ms the valid presumption should have been removed.
A lot will depend on how it feels in both the tactile and usage sense. I had an HTC Desire S for a bit over 2 years, I liked the Sense interface over stock Android, Touchwiz iOS and WP and the phone was comfortable in the hand. SWMBO likes Touchwiz and the daughter iOS
When I went to upgrade the phone I didn't see anything I liked and 4G wasn't getting here for at least 6 months so I went sim only and promptly cracked the screen 2 days later :P
I heard about the Jolla phone with the Sailfish OS, from those nice ex-NOKIA people and downloaded the SDK with the VM and tried it out. For 399 euros it's actually a damned good phone, but there are some rough edges regarding 4G at the moment which are still under development.
If Huawei can produce a phone that interests people as the Jolla did for me then the incumbents could find themselves losing a larger percentage of the market than they may like. They have done well for themselves so far and people can be very fickle.
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