Jolla: Final Specs Revealed
Jolla have recently posted on their official website the final completed specs of the Jolla handset. 🙂
Some of the specs we already knew, but there are quite a few nice surprises and finer details revealed here.
The RGB led indicator will please many assuming that this will be used to great affect for alerting the user of incoming notifications and other useful information such as charging indicator.
The inclusion of the latest Bluetooth 4.0 protocol with it’s superior power management is another bonus.
The 6-point multi-touch Gorilla glass-laden screen will make for a nice robust front finish while the aluminium frame surround should provide added toughness to the overall design.
The dimensions make an interesting read especially the “depth” or thickness which, even with the other half in tow, is a respectable 9.9mm.
The weight (and overall size) is comparable to many other recent smartphones of 2013 including this Sony Xperia, LG Optimus GJ and the Asus Padfone Infinity to name a few.
The dual core 1.4GHz processor combined with 1GB RAM running on a Snapdragon chipset are most probably comparable to the recently announced HTC One Mini.
However, unlike the HTC One Mini, the Jolla handset benefits from a higher capacity user-replaceable battery (2100mah vs 1800mah non replaceable), added NFC (yes vs none), better FF camera (2mp vs 1.6mp), an SD card slot (yes vs none) and of course Sailfish!
The I2C connectivity and power in/out remains one of the outstanding features of the Jolla handset which will allow users to add different other half’s as they become available opening possibilities for all kinds of different hardware peripheral attachments in the future.
The Other Half: Sky’s the limit!
Confirmation of compatibility of use in 6 of the 7 continents of the world means that hardly anyone will be left out in terms of network potential… unless of course you live in Antarctica where we’re assuming Jolla did some research and figured that emperor penguins, whilst heavily anthropomorphised will not be needing a smartphone any time soon!
Of course the cherry on the proverbial icing is that the Jolla handset will be the only handset in existence (currently) fully loaded with the Sailfish OS which brings the original, highly regarded MeeGo OS up to speed with Jolla’s own take on the open source swipe-based user interface.
The pre-order is still currently open to residents of Finland for the time being (will be open to more countries soon) so make sure to get in there quickly to avoid disappointment!
Would love to hear your thoughts on these final detailed specifications –
Sail On…
Just gotta say that that isn’t Jolla’s facebook page, it’s an unofficial fb-fanpage and they released the stats in their website.
Thanks Lauri for noticing I’ve changed the details to link to the official website. 🙂
So there will be no sleeping screen 😦
LED notifications are so 2007. This is a huge step backwards.
You need an OLED display to have a sleeping screen.
Not all is revealed. I’d still like to know the size of the rear camera sensor (fysical size) and type.
so there is no Fm radio? Dolby digital plus?
One thing which seems missing is 5Ghz wifi support.
Also, FM radio MIA !!! And I was curious if the 4-pin headset connector will work with the current Nokia headsets which I have. I love these Nokia headsets , really good quality sound.
Yup, battery life is about half of what I was hoping.
It would be nice for people that have their routers set to only 5Ghz mode rather than dual mode or 2.4Ghz but I can’t imagine that’s a very large percentage of the population.
Perhaps it should’t be worried of the battery life in the first output. I bielive Jolla will provide us updates for program along the time going. At least I’m optimistic.
the talk-time battery life is really low. The Lumia 1020 with its 2000 mA/h battery and its similar (probably same) SoC has about 20 hrs of GSM talk-time.
@ I personally hope for a PIN configuration like Apple uses it. Cause then it’s possible to use your 4-Pin Headset as Headphone with 3-Pin audio Devices such as MP3 Players and Notebooks.
Agreed about the talk time. The N9 for comparison is supposedly 11 & 7 hours (GSM &3G) so 7.7 and 5 is low. Maybe they’re measuring talk time with the screen on versus off on the N9 or other phones.
Agreed about the headset too. Unfortunately the world moved away from the OMTP standard Nokia used to use. Even Nokia do not use it anymore and now use AHJ as do Apple. It’s now next to impossible to buy a set of headphones that aren’t AHJ.
“and six point multi touch is as much use as four legged trousers.”
Useful for a virtual piano keyboard or a guitar.
All very average. Nothing especially bad but nothing especially good either.
… and six point multi touch is as much use as four legged trousers.
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I’m pleasantly surprised by the dimensions.
The N9 is 116.45 x 61.2 x 12.1 mm without it’s rubber case on. The Jolla is about 15mm taller, 7mm wider and 2mm thinner.
I suspect cases will be hard to find for such a low volume phone but since you can just buy a new Other Half and I might be swapping Other Halves on and off, I’ll probably not bother with a case. If those battery talk times are realistic then I might be swapping batteries also.
I do wish they’d change the images of the device on the site. All the recent prototypes we’ve seen in photos are different to those renders.
We still don’t know very much about the CPU. Qualcomm Snapdragon is a series, not a specific model. There remains quite a range of processing power within the given specs of 1,4GHz dual-core.
I hope the Jolla phone has the ability to use data connections on demand, like the N9 and Symbian phones can. That is a useful feature for prolonging battery run times.
there is something very weird about that talk-time indeed… phones tend to have 10-12 hours of talktime at about 300hrs of standby-time… now here we have almost half the talktime with almost double the standby time…
Actually specs are average or even below average. SailfishOS has not been even fully demonstrated – only thing such as camera/contacts/facebook/ambiance or android compatibility have been shown. Has anybody seen email client/calendar? Does it have Exchange support? Does it have caldav/imap support? Will there be any maps applications (online/offline)?
They are still teasing stuff such as ambiance which is not really something important. Also on latest videos it seems the gesture interface is somehow overengineered.
Decent groupware (email/contacts/calendar) support is a must today (at least for me). I’m a happy owner of both N900 and N9 but I really doubt Jolla phone will be a pleasant surprise for me and I will probably not use my preorder.
It’s NOT final spec!!! We still dont know what kinde of snapdragon is proccesor and we stiil dont know nothing about graphics hardware core.
+1
They should have kept the length below 125.
why the qualcom snapdragon=??????????????????
o my god it is orrible!!!!
i will prefer an Cortex core!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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and i hope the battery will be of last technology Li-PO!!!!!!
I have looked on the network specifications bug cannot figure out whether the Jolla Phone includes EDGE / 2.5G network capability. Does anyone know if it will?
I’m sure a modern 4G chipset will also support HSPA+ and EDGE.
Does anyone know about the SAR ? It’s a point I do care of…
Wonder if it is clear to Jolla that who are the competitors, what product line, who are the targeted consumers.