And the updates keep on coming.
- Two-way sync of Exchange contacts.
- Over-the-air (OTA) provisioning: Receive mobile data and MMS access point settings from your operator over-the-air
- Share and receive pictures and contacts via MMS (experimental)
- EXIF data is now stored in photos taken with camera.
- Save GPS coordinates in captured photos [Settings->Apps->Camera]
- Set default account to be used for sending emails [Settings->Apps->Email]
- Swipe to close gesture available as a setting and disabled by default for new users [Settings->System->Shortcuts]
- Visual interaction hints in events view, browser, camera, email, phone and messages apps
- Keyboard sounds [Settings->System->Sounds and feedback->Touch screen tones]
The update also fixes the Heartbleed security issue.
It’s impressive that it only took 3~4 months to implement the “Share and receive pictures and contacts via MMS”, albeit it’s still an experimental feature.
Edited 2014-04-11 11:06 UTC
Although I’ve never ever sent or received an MMS, I’ve seen a lot of people online complaining about the lack of the feature, so this is great news!
Although I don’t have a Jolla mobile (yet), the “bug” that concerned me the most is in regards to the native web browser: A tab is reloaded / refreshed when you leave and come back to it (so if you start writing a comment and go to another tab to look something up, your comment is gone). Has this been resolved?
If you use the “webcat” browser instead of the stock one, you will not have this problem
Not yet, but as bob_bipbip said Webcat is the better browser.
Yep, only took Apple how many years?
It was an obsolete feature that no one used back then. These days, it’s really important.
Actually I would argue it was more important back then and less so now.
Yeah. I don’t remember when I used that feature last time.
Edited 2014-04-13 18:46 UTC
It all depends on your friends. I would prefer to post a picture or to email it. But the majority of my friends prefer to use MMS. More so back when the iPhone first came out.
We, the nerdy, geeky, and power users, make bad examples of common usage for most products, and we should be careful in assuming everyone is just like us
I remember my friends with Samsung flip-phones would use smiles in their SMS messages… which their phone would replace with a picture of a smiley face and then sent as an MMS to my iPhone. All I got was an empty text so it was a bit of a pain.
Which is a mistake you would expect Jolla to have learned from. AT&T/Apple did at least provide a (clumsy, hard to use, and annoying) workaround.
Instead Jolla released a thing they called 1.0 that seems to be missing key features.
I would love nothing more than Jolla to turn into a viable alternative in the market, but they don’t seem to be learning the mistakes of others…
400 euros is way too much.
You can get the revolution from geeksphone for almost half that.
And, it doesn’t work with North American networks. A good start, but way not enough.
Not quite the same thing – Java/HTML5 vs a complete GNU userland – but I do agree on the hefty pricetag.
But then again nobody needs a smartphone.
It’s getting hard to buy non-smartphones. In a few years, it might be almost impossible, in some areas.