I had the opportunity to meet up with @jolla again to talk about (and see!) how the new Jolla Phone is progressing, including new iteration that is using tooling and not hand-made.
The tolerances are really fantastic now. No gaps! The buttons and privacy switch felt firmer, with the power button now being a bit more recessed to make accidental presses harder.
Gone is the antenna tape, proper antennas are now around the device. Stronger battery shield. There were some design changes made to the interior (TOH2 side) to hopefully give any prospective TOH2 hardware designers in the community some more flexibility. I'll let Jolla dive into that since you never know if it'll evolve further beyond the iteration I saw.
The Other Half 2 cover is now using an orange resin and not just a white base + color being painted on. It looks _more_ orange as one might expect. TOH2 snaps firmly into place now thanks to improvements to the tolerances.
I'm really looking forward to July to get my hands on a finalized model!
@me @jolla If they are true believers in open source, and if they do earn money on the hardware ,they should definitely want this.
If their idea is to lock people into services fees and generally block other OS:s from running on their phones, they should definitely not accomodate anyone else.
It's just a question of if they want to be open or closed, support digital sovereignty, or digital slavery.
@h4890 @jolla So you want a smaller phone that isn't even running Sailfish OS? 🤔 Doesn't sound like something the developers of Sailfish OS should make 😁