The Other Half Returns — Community Innovation Program

I’d love to have a half-decent keyboard (permanently attached but slide-out), with similar quality to those cheap bluetooth slide-out keyboard attachable cases you used to be able to get for early Samsungs phones (like the S3). I realise the small manufacturing volume would make it much more expensive. It would need to be permanently attached with rugged screws or similar.

But if Jolla has to choose between spending money improving Sailfish OS & spending loads on a h/w keyboard, I’d rather they improved Sailfish OS with things like:

  • Good VoLTE support on the new phone. Hopefully WiFi Calling as well!
  • Add support for FIDO2 USB or NFC keys (like from Yubico) to the web browser & Android AppSupport.
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LCD screen? Sure, E-ink is sexier, but some fancy coloured oldschool 7-segment LCD or plain ole dotmatrix LCD would be fun.

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One point about the bus speed. 16bit 44kHz audio is 176.4 kbps. So, I can’t tick 100 but don’t need 1mpbs, either. Just saying, a dac could be in the middle somewhere. Most i2s dacs run at standard (i2c) 400kHz upper bound and have enough buffers to deal most situations gracefully. For comparison with very primitive embedded systems, a pi pico (at < 200mHz) can easily run a 16bit dac and an oled at the same time on the same bus. For the sake of audio quality (just in case) I usually run a second bus, but it can be done on one.

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Ah, another interface idea that’d be nice for muzak Adafruit NeoPixel NeoMatrix 8x8 - 64 RGB LED Pixel Matrix : ID 1487 : Adafruit Industries, Unique & fun DIY electronics and kits those types are available as transparent silicone buttons with rgb leds….

A lot of musical gear uses those since you can use color indication for function/value and impress the girls and boys with rgb animation :slight_smile:

EDIT: better example of the matrix: Pico RGB Keypad Base

Capsense example from todbot: https://www.tindie.com/products/todbot/picoslidertoy-capsense-controller-for-pico/

Doesn’t “kb/s” with a lowercase b mean bits? It would be 1.411 Mb/s then.

TOH is back! :heart: Loved the blue TOH from the original Jolla phone. The most important TOH-features for me are: 3,5 mm headphone jack and Qi2 wireless charging. Placing my pre-order after this comment. :wink:

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QI2 TOH im the first place and power battery for that and FM radio

Sorry: 176.4 KB per second; 10.584 MB per minute;

Yes, also the toh measurements will be part of the releasing of the specs.

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Maybe another half that features stemma/qwiik connectors to connect many of the available stuff from adafruit, pimoroni and co?

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The photographer toh : a grip, lens adapter, memory card slot, shutter button, xenon flash, focus wheel, adapter for stand, extra battery

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Audiophile toh: smooth wood stucture back cover with integrated high end audio dac, analog class D amp, audio jack in/out, stereo speakers horizontal, stand, battery

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Jolla is back! Good old times.

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Mud master toh: rugged 360 cover ip68 extra battery, military grade protection, ATEX certification

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volt meter, up to 400 volts and a beep to check connection ..

usb host then i could connect e.g open hantek

multi media to do some recordings .. so some input jacks too

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I think a lora case would be interesting. Meshtastic is starting to gain traction and it would be interesting to see networks expand with active devices.

Not related to ToH but I would really like to see the device support video over usb-c to enable a convergent use of the device using keyboard, mouse and external monitor.

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An extended battery ToH would also be interesting. It would be great for festivals and camping!

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Sci-Fi Corner:
The GA or Para Pilots oH with ADS-B, FLARM, VHF Radio and barometric Altimeter/Variometer
The medical oH with medical parameter monitoring (ECG, Saturation) and Ultrasound (Iphone accesories for that have been in existence for years)
The Amateur radio enthusiasts oH with VHF and UHF radio
The avalanche beacon other half (granted all the specialised producers recommend to keep it 50cm away from phones, but for the SciFi there’s gotta be a way to avoid this.)
And for the blackout, the manual dynamo oH

Quite a lot of interesting suggestions before that, a multimeter would be nice, while I also favour any way to level the camera bump.
However, on the J1 I never really appreciated that possibility. never found a really convincing application, and over the years got occasionally annoyed by the set up ambience resetting itself after minor bumps.

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I would like to have stackable TOHs so you can use more than one simultaneously.

Of course some would need to be the last but some e g DAC could be in the middle.

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