Jolla Phone Pre-order campaign has started

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@chr1s

While we may assume that VoLTE will be supported on this new phone, it’s not actually listed in the specs yet (hopefully an oversight). From what I’ve seen on Ubuntu Touch, VoLTE support has to be implemented for each chipset (although code reuse may be possible between similar chipsets), so it would be great for Jolla to confirm that Sailfish OS will support it on the new phone.

Even the SoC is not listed in the specs yet
But since the hardware is Jolla’s, they can enable VoLTE support, as they did with Jolla C2 a year ago (see [Release notes] Tampella 5.0.0.43 for Jolla C2)

@chr1s

Quite a few people have said VoLTE won’t work unless the phone has been specifically approved by the carrier/network. I don’t know if that’s true for all network in all countries, but it would be good for Jolla to confirm they plan to deal with this (and hopefully it’s possible given the relatively large amount of pre-orders). This probably wouldn’t be a problem when Sailfish OS is installed on an existing phone (e.g. Xperia) from a major manufacturer (e.g. Sony), but this is a new phone from a company the carriers/networks have probably never heard of.

Yes, it depends on the carrier
Those in Germany and France are usually stricter, while networks are generally fine in Jolla’s homeland
I don’t think Jolla could realistically negotiate with every individual carrier