I've had the phone for a week now and overall, I'm not impressed. It lacks some of the screen simplicity and clarity that my N900 has. An example is the text message screen. There is very little distinction between messages apart from a dull time/date.
That seems to be a common theme across the various screens. An example of that is the email app settings screen. I've just tried to create an email account without success. There is no way to know why the thing won't accept the settings. I assumed I had done everything correctly but when I went to the email app itself, I was told that no accounts had been created. Fearing that it was just my inability to do stuff on the phone, I handed it to one of my sons who is a Human Factors specialist i.e. he advises his company on better ways to interact with equipment. His initial comments are as follows :- 1. Front screen - no labels on second screen (phone, messages, browser and camera) except when dragged up slightly. [I can see no logic for that whatsoever. It seems to reply on familiarity with the phone but as I've only had it for a few days, that familiarity is not there]. 2. No obvious way to get to a URL in the browser [I think this is because of the poor distinction between text and background mentioned above]. 3. No indication of which pane you're looking at [again, that seems to rely on familiarity]. 4. No way to interact with things in the browser e.g. save a picture. 5. Power level and 2G/3G signal off page - only visible when moving between 2 panes. I know that some of these things have been mentioned by others e.g. the battery level on the front screen but so much of the phone seems to be a 'work in progress' that it seems to have been rushed out too early. I bought the phone in order to support Jolla but it seems that they're not helping themselves by lacking consistency across the various screens. Perhaps that's a function of a smaller company with individuals not working cheek-by-jowl as they might be in a bigger company. I don't want to end on a sour note so let me say that I don't mind the People app, that is, once I had managed to import all the contacts from the N900 but I did have to resort to some perl to add the \r\n between the various contacts. One question here. When I did an import on day 1 of just one VCF, the app showed the icon for that person but having had to reset the phone back to factory settings before it would do any updates, it now shows 'Add your favourites'. Where is the logic in that? Another question! Can I import the SMS messages from the N900 to the Jolla? If so, can somebody point me to a 'howto'? I was hoping that I could retrieve them from a backup of the N900 but how do I use them on the Jolla? _______________________________________________ SailfishOS.org Devel mailing list
