On Jolla Love Day 2 Jolla introduced the community phone 2. My current phone, Xperia 10 II, has a loose backside and moisture problem, and I will probably need a new phone somewhat soon. So I’ve compared my 2 most obvious options: Xperia 10 V or C2.
Both available in august (?).
C2:
Cheaper
Comes with free subscription for a year
More RAM
X10V:
Faster SOC
Faster RAM
Faster everything
Better screen
Better battery life
Probably better camera
I have a low budget. And I really hate that my device sometimes feels like a single threading device.
I open browser, go to a site, need to login, copy my e-mail (I use unique e-mail addresses) from bitwarden, need to re-open browser that has been closed in the background, reload site, paste my e-mail address, re-open bitwarden that has been closed in the background, copy password, re-open browser that has been closed in the background again, reload site again, paste password, go back to bitwarden to copy e-mail again, go back to browser, paste password, and finally login.
I listen to a podcast, open the browser, game, or whatever, podcast app gets closed in the background.
How much will the 8 GB help with this? This is the only thing I am unhappy with with my phone (although more could always be improved). Is the C2 the obvious better choice for me? Did I miss things I should consider?
From my personal experience I can tell you that 6 vs 8 doesn’t make much of a difference in community ports.
But specifically the browser on 10III will crash and I believe it would crash even with more ram.
That’s why I would like to see them both first and then have a verdict myself too.
My 10V is waiting for a couple of months already and I guess it will be waiting until autumn…
I can confirm this. I have a gigaset GS5 with 4GB and a rephone (same phone but for the ram and camera) and the 6 GB rephone does not help with browser oom.
I doubt that. I guess the blobs basically includes software that shall compensate for some physical shortcomings of the small sensors (nowadays mostly done with the help of some generative AI). I would be surprised if Reeder has better software
C2 is a cheap phone ‘from supermarket’ but it will be a perfect spare phone when your 10 V or similar brake, get stolen or something.
And of course, you can always hack something on it, without risking your daily drive.
Well at least with this phone jolla won’t be left to the mercy of sony’s b team of misfits that didn’t get on the proprietary adaptation team (did they manage to make no typos in the kernel config this time?) and will have better control over hw adaptation and drivers, so might be the best sfos experience even if with subpar specs
I hope it’s great.
My experience from using a similar (or better?) T610 soc on my tablet is that it is literally the worst performance I’ve ever seen in my life.
Literally 1 reading app open only (I got the tablet just to read sometimes before bed) and I can feel it struggle.
Maybe with sfos and only native apps would be acceptable for the C2? Could be, but I believe the moment an android app starts it’s going to be a nightmare.
Something like that, yea. But I don’t think Jolla will make much money from this comunity device. I think it’s more or less cost price, to please developers.
You can buy the phone with android for 140€.
Still expensive for the competition probably.
Obviously they will make a lot of profit here and it’s fine, but let’s not start saying that they’re doing anyone a favor.
Well then buy it with Android if that is your choice. Me, I want a Sailfish phone (including licence) and I’m pretty sure the manufacturer want something extra to flash Sailfish and also the special distribution, jolla branding and other extra costs that don’t fit into their normal distribution.
