This entire piece sounds overly positive about the thing. We get it, it's a real Linux phone, but the hardware is lackluster for 2013. That shitty screen resolution sounds like the final nail in the coffin for me.

> This entire piece sounds overly positive about the thing.

Indeed it is refreshing and is leads the industry forward by leaps and bounds.

Clearly an impartial review.

On the other hand, I like the Other Half concept, and I'd be interested with a more beefed-up version in a Galaxy Note form factor, with a stylus.

Screen resolution is literally the last thing I care about. Give me an extra hour of battery life & I'll take a lower rs display. Give me an extra day of battery life & I'm in heaven.

to be fair its only 399, so they dont seem to target top of the line.

And the Google Nexus 5 is $350, unlocked with no restrictions.

These people need to make money selling the actual phone. Comparing Nexus pricing makes no sense (well, it does of course from the consumers perspective...)

I'd avoid using the nexus devices as a base price, google doesn't need to make profit on them so they can run them low.

Nokia Lumia 520 which has similar resolution (480 x 800) is 79$ and in fact you can get one for 49$ today. Off contract. I know that HN is not fond of WP but just comparing hardware here.

Despite the resolution being lower, the Lumia also has a much slower CPU, GPU, 5MP vs 8MP camera etc...

And the Moto G is $180...

To be honest i believe that all this retina bullshit that was started by apple is too much. Really, i am wondering how good the battery life of my phone would be without a fullhd display.. on a tiny size... that's just stupid, most people just wouldn't notice a lower resolution in everyday use but they would notice improved battery life.

To me the resolution battle is the same BS that the megapixel count on photo sensors is. It's mainly marketing talk to sell devices.

So please, i don't care if the phone doesn't have fullhd, and i also don't need 5" displays.. or a 40 MP camera, i dont need octacore cpus or opengl XYZ capability. I want battery life, please work on the f*cking battery life!!

p.s.: my "rant" doesn't mean that the jolla has a good battery life, of course i wouldn't know about that. Just addressing my main problem with smartpones.

I think they wanted to go pretty low-end with their first device and also be forward thinking about it, because that resolution is half of 1080p.

I'd say that it's a forth of 1080p.

That's 330 ppi by my calculation. The iphone has the same pixel density and it is very much good. I don't see the reason to push 1080 pixels on my tiny 4.5 or even 5 inch phone.

strongly agree, ppi is high but far from the top phones on the market.