But Jolla advertised 299 Euros including VAT, screenshot from the shop page. You have paid Jolla 249 + 50 Euros. So whilst the tax says zero, the shop page says 299 inc VAT. I would have expected Jolla to take the VAT off and reduce the amount you paid when shipping outside the EU, meaning in the UK you pay VAT and just one lot of VAT.
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What you have to pay is definitely customs. Jolla can’t do anything about that. These are the consequences from Brexit
…not to mention the benefits. 
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I received my C2 today and did not read this post before the first power up.
Looks like I was lucky and I did not brick it at power up
I must say it was a strange experience to get it to a some what working state. A few things to note:
The WiFi (2.4GHz) is not great, not to say worse than my Xperia X which needs desperate replacement.
I got updated to 5.0.0.21 after a few tries and it is hard to say if this was due to the WiFi or the fact that especially the settings app is very dreamy and sometimes snoozes for 10’s of seconds.
getting android to work was a bit of a mystery, I think Auroa and F-droid started to appear in the app try after allowing to install untrusted software and installing an rpm form openrepros. Maybe it was is was playing with the Android support menu in the settings app too, not too sure.
Overall the experience was not great.
There are two things that are a knockout criteria for me though. Double tap-to-wake and swipe to lock, these features have to work to make a device usable for me.
Any inside here is appreciated!!
And then shock, the old Bluetooth disable bug. Disabling Bluetooth still does not send a disconnect to all connected devices. I need to wait for some minutes for my BT audio receives to time out on the connection or power cycle them to connect another device.
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Awesome to see you got a new device. Hoping these issues will be fixed by the next batch.
I noticed in the note that there is an absence of any kind of recovery, which surprised me.
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You can only get a ‘fake’ tap-to-wake, but it’s close enough to the real thing, in my experience:
This is a patch for patchmanager:
https://openrepos.net/content/eugenio/patch-restore-swipe-lock
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Double-Tap and Swipe to Lock would be very nice to have !
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I discarded my Sony Xperia 10 II over the Xperia X as my daily phone because the tap-to-wake does not work properly.
It took me some years to find that tap-to-wake can be enabled on the 10 II with the limitation that the display has to be enabled through the proximity sensor first. That is not good enough for me.
I was considering to get a 10 III or higher, apparently tap-to-wake ‘works’ on these phones again.
First and only patch I tired. It is outdated and does not work on the SFOS 5. 
I might try and fix it for myself, but I am no programmer and have no experience how to share such a fix.
Bottom line I think I need to spent the money and get another Sony. Is the Xperia 10 V supported yet?
Indeed i had to pay £67.92 before Royal Mail would deliver, but we add 20% Vat to most things in the UK. I wanted to stay in the EU…
With regards to the UK, there is no customs duty to pay on a smartphones imported into the UK, it is zero rated. VAT is payable, but VAT was payable before Brexit as well.
What has changed since Brexit is when VAT is collected. If the value is over £135, it is payable on delivery and the additional expense of Brexit is you are then paying VAT on the imported cost that include shipping costs, plus a courier admin fee. You should not have to pay VAT twice though, you should only pay VAT once.
Whilst you can expect Brexit does make it more expensive, it is worth checking you’re paying the right amount. If Jolla advertised the price as inclusive of VAT at 299 Euros, then when sending to the UK, you would expect Jolla to take off the VAT on the price charged, e.g. 299 including VAT, becomes 238.24 Euros net of VAT (based on Finnish VAT 25.5%), because the VAT is collected on delivery in the UK.
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@ConstantinTM I’m no longer interested in taking delivery of a C2. If you’re still interested, perhaps we can come to an arrangement with regard to the deposit I’ve paid and you can take over my order.
Regards
Chris
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You can double-click the power button to lock
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Thanks for the suggestion. But it does not help me for my use case.
I have two distinct use cases:
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Phone on bedside table. I don’t want to pick the phone up to press a button at night to check the time. A simple tap-tap look at it and a swipe. Job done, phone has not been picked and served the purpose.
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media player, the phone play music in the car or at home, does not matter. In both case the phone is laying some were. Tap-tap, stop, play, next, repeat. swipe. Job done.
Bottom line, these gadgets are super handy. But I don’t want to be sucked in to handling them all the time. And by handling I mean pressing the button on the side, that gives me a cramp in my hand because I don’t want to pick the phone up or I have to drop what ever else I am doing. Bad idea when I am driving.
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Mediaplayer remote works from Car-Buttons if connected over bluetooth.
Indeed, double-tap is the original feature I also miss from the UI. By the way, my device arrived to Posti’s locker the 30th of last month and I started to play around with just today, writing this on the C2. First startup and the wizard were a breeze. Do some entities posting here utilize the AI to generate sh… certain kind of texts?
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Wow someone still uses that 
If you have any suggestions or want any changes made please let me know, I still support it 
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If anything, that would be better power handling. It is a battery thief of great proportions.
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Yeah it eats chunks doesn’t it 
Are you using the digital clock without seconds by any chance?
The main reason is the clock refreshes every second so it eats the CPU a lot