They had to work with exciting PCBs and parts as far as i understand which dictated the dimensions pretty much.
As fot the visual aspects/styling of the phone (the HW) i was not a huge fan of the original jolla phone design but i get that is subjective.
Given that things have taken their course (HW wise) they now have the time to design something better and IMO more fitting to the software. What they will do for the next phone (j3) up to them. But i maintain my views on how things should be.
That poll was for max size and we are above the 6’’ mark with the J2. So clearly the community wanted smaller, and Jolla apologized for the fact they could not find a smaller screen.
I’ve been wondering if we could not mod the phone to accept a smaller screen on the same base. Maybe put a 4’’ screen at the bottom left leaving the rest of the mainbord empty? That would be radical design.
This is called one handed mode and every Android/iOS device for the last 10 years has it.
Yet I still don’t understand how hard it is to use sfos with one hand. Swipe from any side, bottom, middle of the screen, pulleys, what else is needed?
No it wasn’t. Cite sources if you are going to make claims.
Nowhere here does it say max screen size.
People will have interpreted it differently in at least these ways:
Most things in Sailfish that aren’t pulley menus are top-aligned (lists, active covers, launcher icons, etc), and you can’t select the first item in a list through swipes. A single switch at the top of the page could probably just move to somewhere in the middle, but I don’t think there’s a way around lists.
And have a certain size vertically as well as some dead space above (app page titles).
Apart from closing apps there is no need to reach the exact top of the screen.
Sure, but my thumb would still need to be about 5 cm longer to reach the top item in the list when holding the phone with the bottom corner resting securely on my palm. On the original phone, holding it the same way, I could reach the top item. I had to stretch my hand to swipe from the top, but I could actually still do it with a secure grip on the phone, without too much of an active effort to wiggle it around.
I was thinking of a physical mod, with a smaller display.
It’s not hard to use a giant phone with one hand; however, it requires a lot of gymnastics. I have large hands, by the way. But even with 2 more cm added to my fingers, I would still find it uncomfortable to slide the phone up and down with one hand just to press buttons at the top and bottom of the screen.
The same goes for the general size of the phone. Is it hard to find a coat pocket or a bag to fit the phone in? No, but many people would find it more convenient to be able to keep it in any pocket.
Your source is from the results not the poll itself.
Try to engage in a more constructive way ? Not everything has to be confrontational.
Well, then please provide a source, supporting your claim. It is entirely new to me that the voted screen size was the “max” screen size rather than the “prefered” screen size.
As of now you claim that Jolla misrepresented the poll in the results
Another thing I am wondering about is wether all those one handed people do not have things more important than argueing about a long gone poll.
People get over it!
No 5”, no 3.5mm jack.
No, that is the (now closed) poll as far as i can tell.
Right back at you. Claiming i’m wrong and not citing evidence is not constructive either.
So your idea is to chop off a piece of the mainboard and hope it keeps working?
No, if you look at the picture, I offered to replace only the screen, leaving the rest of the phone as is, creating a giant bezel on 33% of the phone front estate.
Offered as a joke, even though I think it could be made into an interesting mod. Radical design was a movement that put the concept above function, and challenged what is usually the norm of good taste. Although Kanthal gave interesting feedback on the availability of a software version of that in other systems, showing the idea is not as disruptive as I thought.
Huawei offered a software reduction of their screens years ago. That should not be overly hard to implement in software so that everybody’s happy.
This is basically the kind of mode you’re talking about, but even on the iPhone people think it’s kind of ridiculous.
This is cool, I’ll be trying that on the Xperia IV. I use the dual app mode extensively, with NewPipe, Music or OSMAnd taking 33% at the top, often left unused.
Sailfish could use the extra black space more efficiently than android though, since it’s using gestures, the clock and connectivity could stay at the top, and notifications could also go there (you can switch to event view for interaction).
That is amazing. Not good-amazing, but still amazing. 
So I’ve tried the one handed mode on Sony Android, and must say it’s not so bad.
The mode does not stick, and goes back to full screen at the first button press, so it’s not meant to be used all the time but rather to be activated when you need to reach a button at the top of the screen and have only one hand available.
The big issue is with the gesture which is hard to complete : you need to swipe down on the “home” dash at the bottom of the screen. Since that button is now rather short in height, the gesture is precise, and attention consuming, reserved for emergencies.
How is the mode working on other android flavours ? Is it permanent ? What gesture is used?
