Jolla Phone update - lights on, technical bits and the schedule

[MichaelK]

This is the way…

[avhakola]

@MichaelK

I’d been worrying that I missed the mail)

I’m sure this forum will be flooded with messages within minutes of the first emails being sent.

[ixxa]

I get my email!!! Happy!!!

[Walli]

I payed already who is going to Helsinki?

[JoshStrobl]

@Walli

who is going to Helsinki?

Me. Wait…I’m in Helsinki already!

[WT.Sane]

@JoshStrobl

Me. Wait…I’m in Helsinki already!

Lucky you. I was seriously considering coming over from Berlin but I will have to work and I hope for a life stream.

[avhakola]

In case you didn’t see it already, your email should arrive within a week!

Jolla Phone update - Final payment and towards mass production

Hi there, Time for a Jolla Phone update - the train is accelerating to high speed, hold on to your hat! Final payments As communicated throughout the journey of the new Jolla Phone, we will start collecting final payments by end of March. The process has now started and the first customers from Batch #1 have received their payment instructions by now - first come, first serve basis - and we will roll out the payment links for all three first pre-order batches (i.e. Batch #1, #2 and #3, first 1…

[chr1s]

Thanks for the unpaywalled Wired.com article. Hopefully it gives hope to potential USA buyers:

Jolla is considering a separate US launch in the future, though right now, it’s focusing on the European Union, the UK, Norway, and Switzerland.

[chr1s]

@ApB

Most people just want phones that work. … SFOS doesn’t offer that. As i usually say its no even at the level of a normal desktop linux distro. If we reach that we can talk about “joe average“ readyness.

Every Android phone I’ve owned gets less functional with every ‘upgrade’ to a new version of Android, as Google lock it down further. Things I could do years ago are either now only a dream, or else require jumping through ever bigger hoops. Google has made it clear they don’t want power users, nor people who want to use (more secure & private) offline functionality rather than the cloud (aka someone else’s computer).

As a Linux user, SFOS is way more functional than Android in most of the things I am interested in. Yeah, it doesn’t have every modern convenience, but it’s close enough I don’t think I will care too much.

[ApB]

@chr1s

As a Linux user, SFOS is way more functional than Android in most of the things I am interested in. Yeah, it doesn’t have every modern convenience, but it’s close enough I don’t think I will care too much.

Modern convenience as in a browser that you can use and browse the web as in any distro?

(obviously without using android support in which case you are better of with an android phone)

[tortoisedoc]

I also missed out of the extras, bought a ticket for the event and the phone. However, I found out recently i cant attend the event, also I made a mistake and added an error in the address I gave. I mailed jolla about this last friday bit so far no reply.

[tvdjolla]

I was with the first batch, but I didn’t get any email yet. I don’t want to be unpatient, If you tell me that’s normal, it’s ok …

[avhakola]

I don’t know if Jolla sent out any new emails over the weekend, or if they have focused on putting out the fires caused by the first batch of emails (people forgot to order accessories or to use their discount code in their excitement), but I’m sure we will see ton of new replies from people receiving their emails on monday.