Top Three Questions Jolla Can't Give You A Straight Answer( Or You Just Refuse to Listen)

I have been following Jolla for quite some times.  It became my daily ritual to check up on Jolla's Twitter and Facebook to see what they have been up to and what the other say about the development of Jolla.

To be honest, I am quite impressed by how actively Jolla is engaging to the community. Unfortunately, there are certain questions that they just can't give us the answer we want , even if they really want to (or not).

I feel sort of bad for the PR guys at Jolla that they have to answer the same set of questions again and again, even though those questions have been addressed appropriately ( Not satisfyingly, but we can't always please everybody). If I were them, I would probably gone mad for keeping answering the same questions.

Here I listed the three most popular questions from Jolla's Twitter that I would find them annoying if asked over and over again. However, if I ran into anyone from Jolla, I would not hesitate to ask the same questions myself. ( I just can't help it.)

#1-  Support for existing devices
Will Jolla Support N9?
 Answer: Nope, at least not officially. Here is one of the most recent official responses

@bonchehopp We cannot support Nokia products with official releases. Most likely there will be unofficial ports to eg. N9.
— Jolla (@JollaMobile) February 8, 2013

If you are like me that got nothing to do but to spend hours on internet, you will notice it is almost the same response we got from them on November last year.

@lonely_cent We cannot support Nokia's product officially. Technically there is nothing preventing for porting to eg. N9.
— Jolla (@JollaMobile) November 22, 2012

If you keep digging, you will find the message has been pretty consistent since the beginning. This is earliest official response I can find.

On Nokia #N950, we love it and use in development. Nokia #N9 is in our heritage, but we cannot provide support since it's Nokia's product.
— Jolla (@JollaMobile) July 7, 2012

I guess we should take that as a hint that they are not going to change their mind for awhile .Even if you don't keep track of Jolla's tweets, there are plenty of Jolla's fan websites/Facebook/Twitter/Blogs to say the same things; even Engadget wrote up an article to report that.

As a proud owner of n9, I understand how bad we all want Sailfish OS running on our phone. Obviously, we are not getting any further news from Jolla, especially not from their official Twitter account, unless we are willing to pay for the huge lawsuits. As they already made it clear, the porting process has to be community-driven and off-the-record. There is really no need to ask the same question on every other days. If Nokia and Jolla make some kind of deals in the future, I am pretty sure they will let us know.

#2 Product's availability
Will the Jolla phone be available to my country?
Answer: It depends, but they can't tell you the details just yet.

@umanghome Product availability will be announced later, thanks!
— Jolla (@JollaMobile) July 21, 2012

If you live in China or Finland, the answer is most certainly yes, but ,for the rest of us, we just have to wait. The reasoning is simple: if the deals didn't go thur, it would just let down a lot of people which is worst than being just unavailable. It is best for us to wait and let them work behind the scene.

#3 The technical specification of the product ( both hardware and software)
Does the phone have this and that? Does the OS have such and such?
Answer: Well, you can use the phone to make a phone call for sure. Beyond that,we just have to sit tight and wait, but they do closely listen to what we want .( Hopefully, we can know more about the phone on MWC 13)

@jollaes 1st product will be revealed within this quarter of the year.
— Jolla (@JollaMobile) January 2, 2013

To sum up, It is fun to speculate and discuss about rumors. It is just a part of the game and Jolla is more than happy to play along with it. At the same time, Jolla can only answer your questions to a certain point. Asking the same questions is not going to help and probably take up their time to address to more pressing/interesting  matters. If you are a fan of Jolla, you should do your homework before asking any questions.
 
** I changed one of tweets as I posted the wrong one ( I blame it on the Firefox, as it somehow disable the JavaScript)
** And Thanks for reading it and feel free to check out my other biogs :)
    

A Random Update

Alright then, I finally put some efforts to finish up a pet project of my own that has started two summers ago. Feel free to check it out: A Journey of Training My Mom to use Meego.

p.s  Folks from Engadget did an article on the new Ubuntu mobiles OS and they have a hands-on video with the Benevolent Dictator himself aka Mark Shuttleworth. Check it out.

Random Thoughts on Ubuntu

Ok, there are two things I want to talk about Ubuntu for today. Be mindful this is just a quick run-down for the stuffs I want to talk about before I have time to write something more in-depth and accurate.

First, Ubuntu finally unveils the mystery behind the countdowns on its webpage- another mobile OS in a already crowded mobile market. Despite the common consensus that there is no more space for another OS, Canonical begs to differ and develops their own mobile OS. Being an arguably long-time linux-based mobile OS user ( Maemo and later Meego), I am personally excited about the news, as I believe it will speed up the development for Qt platform. More competition, more innovation. With two exciting linux-based mobile platforms rolling out this year,the landscape of mobile platform for 2013 is going to be unlike (heads up, Jolla fans).

However, It is still early to say whether ubuntu platform for phone is a competitive player just yet. The demo on youtube looks promising and the OS interface looks very similar to the desktop counterpart. Because of the similarity, I expect the user experience of the mobile should be the same with the desktop version.  Beside that, there aren't many new features that are unique to this particular OS. Yet again, I was just skimming the fine prints on the website, so I might miss something. Hopefully, more details will be given at CES on Jan 8 -11 at Las Vegas.

The second thing I want to talk about is less exciting. After being a Window user since I first learned of computer when I was a kid, I finally switch to use Linux (Ubuntu). It is true that I dabble in Ubuntu every now and then for my classes, but I never use it as my sole OS on daily basis. It is all new to me and I am still struggled to set up Ubuntu with working apps. I probably write more about my experiences later on.