My Blackberry torch was my favourite phone ever.
It's a reference to The Mythical Man Month and (I believe) one of the parables told inside:
This exact situation played out during the last coalition, where the compromise was a vote on it (because changing the method of voting without a clear mandate is unlikely to be popular) and once again everyone voted to keep FPTP, which was painful to watch.
The Lib Dems basically gave away their negotiating power in the coalition agreement for nothing but an expensive failed attempt to change from FPTP.
Note: "exact" isn't accurate as it would be different parties but it would still be an incumbent relic of two party politics vs a less well funded party.
The vacuum of space
Check the ears
From the images, which I assume are concept art rather than an actual debice, no it does not appear to have one. I've preordered myself as that's not a deal-breaker but it is disappointing, perhaps they will do something with the USB socket to allow it
Please bear in mind this is anecdotal.
I own a C2 (the community device that's currently on back order), I also had the 1st gen phone way back when.
The 1st gen phone was great, I loved it. I wasn't really a smart phone officiando, I could do my emails and some other stuff and side load a few android apps if I really wanted. I then went to android for a few years and the app support (and eco system) is great, lots of diversity.
Then I tried to go back to the C2 (which is where I am now). The OS is still a joy to use, has lovely gesture control etc, but the hardware is a bit slow and the whole phone feels a tad unresponsive as a result. I've signed up to the new phone hoping this will solve that issue.
Honestly Jolla phones aren't for beginners. They won't run banking software (thanks to the banks not providing the apps), so I will continue to carry an old Android around as a second device for this purpose. I am trying to persevere because I believe a Linux phone is possible and Jolla/Sailfish seems like the closest to reality at the moment (please feel free to disagree, respectfully, in replies to this).
They're dough nuts
Time for a weekend away at Hilbert's Grand Hotel, methinks.
Honestly I haven't tried, so that's possibly on me. But also I don't want it on there, who knows what that app does, it's at best suspicious, imho. I have a "dirty" phone with all the big tech stuff on, but at a pinch I can make it go online using my "clean" phone as a tether, but I'm trying to wean off the data harvesting apps like WA, Instagram etc
No, I think they support others too. However I have the Jolla C2:
I'm currently trying to switch to using my Sailfish Phone full time. Unfortunately the way I'm having to do this is by keeping my old android about to run WhatsApp (because I can't get friends and family onto something that also runs on Sailfish, which is basically Matrix or nothing as far as I can tell). It's not great tbh, but I really like the idea of Sailfish (or Ubuntu touch).
The Dalvik layer (which runs the Android sandbox) is ok, it runs some stuff but not everything and anything "security dependent", forget it, so Banking and messaging won't be supported, that being said the moment I find a bank that supports Sailfish, I will switch to that bank in an instant.
(Ps. If anyone has anything to refute any of my statements here, like a good messaging app or banking, then please correct me, I want to be wrong)
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