Future proof is important. It justifies a somewhat higher price. That is why I voted for a self placeable battery and better repairability and I am happy to see that I am not the only one.
Phones with these features that I have read of: Fairphone, Nothing, Gigaset, Shift, Teracube and recent HMD/Nokia phones.
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Mee too, you’re not alone, @Kea .
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this is what I miss most from the original Jolla on Jolla C2
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I second that, same situation. The Vollas with VollaOS do have FM radio and it was really good to stay informed about the black out progress with this, considered that the estimated restoration of power was predicted accurately via Radio…
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I didn’t mean to offend you. Yet professional repairing companies could have a reason to be alarmed. The new features are about do-it-yourself rather than having to go to a repair shop and paying a lot of money. This is part of a scheme to prolong the life of phones.
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100% support for all bullet points from my side
As you can see HMD is in the list I mentioned. They are complying to the new trend too.
If the EU area includes the UK, then that’s my vote.
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I am not offended, I’m just trying to understand.
Yes obviously phones that are easier to repair are welcome. But from what I’ve seen so far the way this is implemented does not justify the trade offs.
As an example skyline is at the top regarding repairability and it’s great.
But:
- Still can’t swap batteries without opening the device and unscrew parts.
- It still takes some skill to repair the device (if you exclude iPhones for example, there’s not many difficult devices to repair).
- The biggest difference to get to the device is one less screw (2 on most devices, 1 on skyline) and no glue.
- Because of the missing strong adhesive (that ca soften even with a hair dryer) you don’t get proper water resistance.
- From what I’ve seen so far on that community, people are still searching for professionals to repair their phones.
- Replacement parts are hard to find, making the self repair pointless.
- And lastly but can also relate to a future Jolla phone, longevity should go hand in hand with proper and meaningful software support. Great hardware that can stand for years, up to date software and easy to repair is the full experience in my opinion.
Now, would I love a perfect device that I can repair on the fly, have always parts available and have killer performance for years? Who wouldn’t?!
But what are the chances we will be getting something like this?
For now I’m still trying to find a battery for my Jolla C and there’s literally nothing and no one to help.
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I have said it before and will say it again. And now it makes more sense than ever - fairphone 6. there are already linux options available and having such mature platform and community will greatly help sailfish
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It’s some weird fetish I guess.
Also for the phone itself I would really like better camera software. It’s the single reason I need to carry an extra device with me to take photos.
The SFOS camera starts up too slow, takes pictures too slow and has bad low-light performance.
At this point I wouldn’t even care if it’s an Gcam port running in Android as long as it is supported well.
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Honestly sounds to me like you’re describing the Fairphone 6. Okay, maybe not the “killer” performance part, but I think Sailfish OS could run considerably better on the hardware than Android.
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I would assume UK falls into the “non-EU Europe” -category.
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N:o 1 : Make sure internal architecture is based on the chips which has planned roadmap to newer versions. Meaning that new models should be easy to port. Now constant headache with porting to newer models. Then the rest comes by itself ( battery, display memory, NFC , fingerprint OTG HDMI output, non glare display HD)
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It would be nice if it is like the N9, the blue colored one. The “curved N9-style”-screen for a better and smoother experience. It must be iconic and stylish.
The UI must interact with the Phone and with the gesture it musn’t be bigger than 6".
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I would very much like that. But very much doubt it will happen. I2C is maximum 4 pins, so it’s actually quite simple. Often 2 pins are enough if you have another way to break out vcc/vss. I can imagine adding an e paper display for fun.
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Also a good point. After 15 years of designing for atmel, I’m switching for the pi pico RP2350B (8 ADCs) since I can cover a lot of territory with it for the next 5+ years.
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Also important to me and you did not mention the Volla phones (gigaset). I own a number because I have both access to repair and replaceable batteries. In some sense the repairs are more far ranging, but more difficult than the Fairphones.
I would also welcome a Jolla Fairphone since I was an early FF user.
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After several posts mentioned Fairphone and Volla I also want to put in Shiftphone devices.
Fact is that three are located in Europe, and it just makes sense if they join forces (maybe all of them).
So after this I look at the poll from another point if view. I still use my Xperia 10 III only as secondary phone cause of the camera and GPS problem, but think of replacing my primary Xperia running android with a Fairphone 6.
If we talk of devices Fairphone 6 would be my first choice for SFOS, even as it lacks the headphone jack (a thing I still love at the Sony phones).
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