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After the excitement about the new GNU/Linux Sailfish OS phone Jolla and having tinkered around for a couple of days I come to the, – unfortunate, – conclusion, that the phone is not end-user ready (yet).

Although the OS offers an intuitive, fast and clever handling of the functions, many core functions are yet missing.

• No CalDAV/CardDAV syncronisation for Calendar & Addressbook
• No Task manager
• No GnuPG native e-mail program
• Buggy browser
• No OTR support for XMPP/Jabber
• Poor battery life
• No VPN client

Watching the community reports and how desperate many are looking for a well working, nicely developed and secure smartphone, I hope that the Jolla team will come up with an update of the missing features soon.

Here’s an ad of a “Cellphone Booster Antenna”, seen in Blantyre, Malawi, Central Africa.

“Good for areas without network or low network. More than 50 km from tower.”

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