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Official Jolla Phone Specifications (Final Set)

Ahoy!

Seems like the teasing is almost over and today we have got blessed by Jolla once again since they have updated their website with the final specifications of the phone. Woop Woop! There are some good news there I presume!


What we knew ?

  • 1.4 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon Processor
  • 1GB RAM
  • 16 GB Storage with Micro SD expandability
  • 8MP Auto focus Camera at the back and 2MP for the front facing camera
  • 2100 mAh Battery 3.8 Volts
  • I2C Bus + NFC connectors for The Other Half
  • Ample 4.5″ display with qHD resolution (960*540) Which gave us 244.77 PPI of pixel density + Gorilla 2 Glass

 

What we didn’t know?

  • 6 Point Multi touch on top of the Gorilla Glass
  • WLAN802.11 b/g/n 2.4GHz
  • Bluetooth 4.0 EDR HS
  • AGPS & GLONASS
  • USB 2.0 HS
  • Proximity, Accelerometer, Gyro, E-Compass, and Ambient light sensors
  • RGB Indicator LED
  • Dual Microphone for noise cancellation
  • Talk and Standby time (Approx): 7.7/5.5 hours (GSM/3G) & 500 hours stansby
  • Dimensions: H131 * W68 * D9.9mm
  • Weight: 141g
Full Specs

Full Specs

So, Good news here is the Bluetooth 4.0 which is a power saving version of 3.0 and many other stuff which I didn’t have time to dig enough for it, Another good news which can be bad news for many people, is the IPS LCD panel.

Why is it good news?

Because according to various sources, IPS has many advantages in comparison to others:

  • IPS panels display consistent, accurate color from all viewing angles and without having any blur.
  • Unlike TN LCDs, IPS panels do not lighten or show tailing when touched. This is important for touch-screen devices, such assmartphones and tablets.
  • IPS panels can process high speed signals without data loss by using copper wiring with low resistance values.
  • IPS Panels offer clear images and stable response time.

Source : Wikipedia 

Why is it bad news then?

First of all, for you LPM fans, the screen is not gonna be always on like it was on Nokia N9 but rather than having LPM, we have the RGB LED on the phone for different notifications. It’s RGB so it changes colors depending on what kind of notification you have received.

 

What do you think about the battery life? Personally, I’m okay with it since I know that I have other half possibility woth power output on my phone and I’m not concerned about the price of any other half because The Other Half is there for us to use it not to leave it as a decoration or show off. I guess a nice QWERTY keyboard can pack a decent battery underneath. But this last one was just a personal opinion. You can share yours as well in the comment section. Let us know what you think.

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Comments: 69
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    Saqib Ch
    7 years ago

    The only thing I am not happy is the battery performance. I thought it would have performed better than N9(in official specs sheet) but it didn’t. I love LPM but I think I can live without it.

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    Etam
    7 years ago

    Can someone explain me, or give some pointers, what is LPM?
    And the talk and standby times don’t tell me anything. How they are compared to N900?

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      Saqib Ch
      7 years ago

      You will get the idea of LPM here.
      http://thp.io/2012/billboard/

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    Randy Simons
    7 years ago

    No support 5GHz wifi is also a bummer. 2.4GHz is overcrowded, whereas I’m the only one around with a 5GHz AP enabled. Works fine on the N9. Plain LCD is a disappointment. IPS might be the best available option for LCD, but imo it pales (both ways) compared to OLED. Viewing angles on a OLED display are irrelevant. Colors of OLED have a wider gamut. I’ll miss the option to use the device as e-reader at night. HDMI-out is something I’d like to see too, but seems to be missing.

    The only granted wish on my wish list is Bluetooth 4.0. TOH might bring unexpected surprises, but otherwise I had hoped a bit more fireworks from Jolla, hardware-wise.

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    Shane
    7 years ago

    sub.

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    7 years ago

    The dimensions H131 * W68 * D9.9mm are nice, not bad at all. I really thought it to be bigger… but this was really a surprise for me, really well done by Jolla. I think I will fall in love with this phone when see it the first time for real…..

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    Jari
    7 years ago

    The single bummer is MicroSIM. I have SIM with exceptionally good operator deal but they won’t give me microSIM. Still hoping it to be dual slot but probably not..

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    Joe
    7 years ago

    low Hardware! I guess the camera can not compete with Lumia 920 or even Z10. Lower ppi but even worse battery life.!! We can conclude either the OS uses more power or the hardware sucks which I guess the 2nd is correct. From the camera I expect an hardware in the level of full chinees brands such as Oppo or newman. however, I expect a good design but anyway, 400 is too much for this. This phone should be released in Jan 2013 with 400 euro or in christmas with 250 to 300 euro. (Right now Lumia 920 is 278 euro here).
    I think maybe they offer two price. one for Finland and one for international that they can compete. Or it might be possible that they stop selling to the rest of the world and try to enter the international market with the second phone which I would like this approach more 🙂 Lets see what happens. Releasing these Fotos made me worry about their marketing methods! I think releasing of those photos was not professional. I hope they can sell in Finland

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    sh.m
    7 years ago

    need fm transmiter, bezel a bit smaller, and amoled to be a perfect phone

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    7 years ago

    what about the aperture?

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    7 years ago

    FM transmitter + Keyboard + USB OTG addon…

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    Gordon
    7 years ago

    Perfect Perfect Perfect, exactly what i was expecting for as technical specs.. balanced device and many plus compared to competitors.. but now have to arrive soon in my hands!!

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    eddhie
    7 years ago

    i’m disappointed with battery life, with these specs I was expecting better results 🙁 , why so bad?
    i can live without quad core and hd,but good battery is really useful, I can not buy it before a in-depth review.

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      N9 to Sailfish
      7 years ago

      Perhaps Jolla will provide updates for Sailfish. Also N9 had lower battery live in the beginning, but I’m very pleased with my N9 as Pr 1.3. I’m sure Jolla will do their best with the updates in future.

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    7 years ago

    what about the other half? any news about it?

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    NokiaFan
    7 years ago

    Sony’s Xperia ZL packs an fHD (1080p) 5 inch display in that exact dimensions!

    With so much wasted space on either sides of that most-precious real estate, boredom could’ve been easily killed by providing a nice pair of cheap but front-facing side-mounted full stereo speakers like in HTC’s One/mini (no BEATS, obviously), keeping alive one of those legendary g-olden Nokia traditions that were long lost in time… (not too long ago though as X7 was probably the last one out of finnish factories with stereos) yet a worthy tribute in memory of N900 too!

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    • James (Sepehr Noori)
      7 years ago

      There has been engineering on the phone and those are actually not wasted spaces since you need to consider the other half as well. Half of the phone is basically reserved for another thing to be attached on it, So there has to be a space for other things like wiring or the actual board of the phone.

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    Ben
    7 years ago

    No sleeping screen? Epic fail. That was one of the best features of the N9 and was a huge selling point. Jolla really dropped the ball here.

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    • James (Sepehr Noori)
      7 years ago

      They have RGB LED instead which basically does the same thing except for the clock.

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        Andrew
        7 years ago

        Yeah, right. Except for the time, for the date, for the weather, battery information, connection information, currently playing track, etc., etc., etc. N810 and N900 had RGB LED. It was absolutely no match to N9’s sleeping screen. It didn’t provide any other info than the fact that the phone’s status was changed. Actually the LED was pretty useless for me as I had to unlock the screen to see all the above said information. Just as on every other mobile OS. If we talked about MeeGo advantage over any other mobile OS, the sleeping screen would come in first place. I could handle scanty hardware or screen resolution or even battery life of the coming phone. But lack of the sleeping screen really makes me doubt I wanna have the one. What advantage does it really introduce over my N9? Android applications? I have them on my tablets and would better off buying an Android device if I really wanted to have android apps on my cell phone. The other half that in reality is some clip-on stuff that actually makes the phone bulky and potentually even more fragile? The fact is that a separate phone with built-in keyboard for those of us who want a hardware keyboard would do a better job.

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          7 years ago

          Totally agreed.
          Sailfish, the MeeGo sucessor without it’s killer (and unique) feature? This is really sad.

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          Ben
          7 years ago

          I’m with you Andrew, the sleeping screen is the #1 reason why I will not give up my N9 for anything less.

          I’m rooting for Jolla and I really hope they succeed! Maybe no one else cares about the sleeping screen but this seems unlikely if they’ve ever used an N9, and that’s going to be a huge part of their fan base. I think Jolla made a HUGE mistake going IPS.

          I can deal with mediocre hardware but they really needed a feature or two to set themselves apart. “The other half” has yet to impress. A sleeping screen would have been a huge selling point. Is it really that hard to implement or were they not able to source AMOLED screens? Something like that or an FM transmitter shouldn’t have made the phone much more expensive to manufacture but would have added tremendous value to the handset.

          I’m starting to think that maybe they should instead focus software development for the current top Android handsets and charge a fee to put sailfish on it. I would have paid upwards of $1000 for a phone that met my requirements. Something with 720p, a sleeping screen, HW keyboard, and FM transmitter. The Jolla has none of this and leaves me wanting much more. There is at least one analyst that agrees Jolla should have shot for the high end of the market. Maybe they really wanted to do more but this is the best they could come up with? I’d almost rather that be the case then just poor strategy discussions. Then there would still be hope.

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            Shane
            7 years ago

            It’s been known for the longest time that offering top-end hw was never going to be feasible for them, they don’t have the economies of scale that much larger co’s have. Some obscure E.Asian starts-up can “kinda” afford to do it, but they’re likely getting rather large gov’t subsidies, + they don’t also have a entire sw_stack/ecosystem they’re building from scratch.

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          Shane
          7 years ago

          At that res/PPI it would’ve been a even bigger fail if they went with AMOLED, IQ of the display would’ve been laughable. One can approximate a LPM with IPS, it’s not quite the same thing as can be done w/AMOLED but that’ll have to do, plus there’s the RBG led.

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    ff
    7 years ago

    The screen spec is very much like huawei ascend 526

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    Matti Kärkkäinen
    7 years ago

    Milloinhan näitä aitoja Suomalaisia? rupeais saamaan kannatettais samalla periaatteella kuin aikoinaan Nokiaa
    ja tehtäis siitä suuri yhdessä ostamalla sitä vaikka “velaksi”

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    ff
    7 years ago

    The screen is very much like huawri ascend 526

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    Kevin
    7 years ago

    Great to see the rgb led as I have one on my bb10 z10 and it is very useful.

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    Adman
    7 years ago

    In comparison with the competition, the specifications are satisfactory for their smartphone which has Jolla in mind. It is a continuation of MeeGo and the N9. The way of communicating through your phone to the world around you. So bring on the Jolla, can’t wait.

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    Kenneth
    7 years ago

    Sleeping screen was so much more than what one rbg led can display… Sigh really disappointed with that. Can live with the rest.

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    7 years ago

    having such a low resolution screen actually doesn’t help much on battery life as you guys claimed before, sigh!

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    7 years ago

    Besides, adding a physical keyboard and additional battery in the other half would surely make this phone as bulky and hefty as N900

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    Firmin
    7 years ago

    I was hoping FM Transmitter + 2GB of RAM (for multitasking) but this is pretty good as it is right now. Just keen on a qwerty other-half

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    müd
    7 years ago

    Does anyone know what standard 3.5mm 4-pin audio-jack means? Is it the pin configuration like in old nikia phone (R,L,MIC,GND (which would be sad)) or the better (R,L,GND,MIC) which Apple uses ( and nowadays most companys).

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      Shane
      7 years ago

      I also want to know if there’d be any sort of video out…
      Pretty sad if there’s not, considering all the other compromises & things missing.

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    • James (Sepehr Noori)
      7 years ago

      It should be R, L, Mic, GND but I’ll make sure about it.

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        müd
        7 years ago

        I prefer L,R,GND,MIC because than you can use your headset with 3-pin Audio devices. And I don’t want to buy new Headphones for each device I use (I have no hope for the included Headset (if there will be one)).

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        • James (Sepehr Noori)
          7 years ago

          There will be an included headset. I don’t think Jolla will go with the old fashioned one. They’ll go with the more popular one… I presume it personally!

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    Draak
    7 years ago

    It has to be some kind of terrible mistake with the battery life specs… It’s worse than my current Galaxy S2 phone that I try to keep internally as clean as I can with a custom ROM to make it run longer and still I’m not satisfied with that. I was expecting an operating system that can handle power consumption better but it looks like it’s worse than bloated Android.

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      Shane
      7 years ago

      Which battery life metric are you referring to, there’s several…
      Please point to Samsung’s official doco that shows that every battery life metric is better.
      One anecdotal example (i.e your phone) is NOT the same thing.

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      • James (Sepehr Noori)
        7 years ago

        I can assure you all, there’s an article on the way which will take your minds by storm 😀 about the battery life!

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          Shane
          7 years ago

          Do you have access to a final or late revision (hw/sw) phone?

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    • James (Sepehr Noori)
      7 years ago

      Wait for our next article and see how wrong your expression is. Thanks!

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        Jolla Cool
        7 years ago

        Ok please publish it soon! thanks 🙂

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        Jolla Cool
        7 years ago

        really? Thanks

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        • James (Sepehr Noori)
          7 years ago

          Yup. It’ll be published in just wee bit of time.

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            Jolla Cool
            7 years ago

            I am not sure which screen tech is better overall, but if jolla was deciding between pentile amoled and ips lcd, ill choose the lcd.

            Anyway, sailfish is more suited for lcd in my opinion

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          • James (Sepehr Noori)
            7 years ago

            Yea I agree, Pentile is just a pain man…

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            Jolla Cool
            7 years ago

            Also, sailfish is more of opacity diferences and fading while meego is more of contrast. So both decisions on n9 and jolla phone are right

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          • James (Sepehr Noori)
            7 years ago

            Indeed!

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            müd
            7 years ago

            yeah with qHD pentile would be a real pain, but with higher resolutions it would be better, cause pentile gives AMOLED Displays longer life and AMOLED is more energy efficient than LCD since the black pixels don’t consume power (which made the sleeping screen from N9 possible). The black is way blacker because of this too

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            Shane
            7 years ago

            AMOLED consumes way more power than LCD’s in usage that’s predominantly white i.e. browsing.

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          Jolla Cool
          7 years ago

          I am not sure which screen tech is better overall, but if jolla was deciding between pentile amoled and ips lcd, ill choose the lcd.

          Anyway, sailfish is more suited for lcd in my opinion

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            Shane
            7 years ago

            It’s quite clear which is best overall, in the last yr or so the market’s voted unequivocally for LCD-based displays, that can change over time. Certainly AMOLED (esp. OLED) still has it’s areas of strength, but “as it stands”, LCD-based displays are slightly better “overall”.

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    awk
    7 years ago

    no detailed info about Soc and gpu?

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    7 years ago

    hum… low specs, ok, however having seen Sailfish flow son well on the ancient N950, I have no doubt that the performance will be “good”. I prefer battery life than squander on specifications.
    Talking about specifications… I think that we been expecting a different kind of specifications. Specifications and features different from what we find in the market.

    I really want Amoled, not for it’s supposed vivid colours, I want it because billboard and all sort of screen informations with the screen off.
    Some ingenious trick in the camera.
    Something like this.

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    StefanP
    7 years ago

    No AMOLED is the biggest disappointment for me. It’s funny how James tries to cover up those negative news! 😉 A bit more critical blogging would suit this site! A lot of us are used to the N9 sleep screen and will miss all this info permanently available there. I hope there will be a solution to turn on the LCD upon movement. I can understand Morse code, but I wouldn’t want to get all the info available on a N9 sleep screen sent in Morse code over the notification LED! 😉 Anyway, having a notification LED is a limited mitigation of the missing LPM screen.
    Even though the talk time looks low, I rarely empty my batteries by talking all that time. It’s all about the smartphone’s activities in the background during standby. Probably those 500h can not be reached in reality, but if we could get 2-3 days usage with, lets say 1h talk time, I would be very happy! So a realistic mix is deciding, not those extreme numbers given in specs!

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    • James (Sepehr Noori)
      7 years ago

      I’m not trying to cover anything, I addressed that as a disappointment as well. But looking on the bright side is a thing that I enjoy the most.

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      7 years ago

      if you have a look at the latest videos you’ll see, that the lock screen has two states… double tapping wakes it from sleep but keeps it at very low brightness, showing the basic info on time and notifications… it is lit-up to the actual brightness based on the info from sensors by touching it again… i suppose this is some kind of workaround for the ips-screen, although i understand it will not satisfy everyone…

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    7 years ago

    so… very late to the game here as i just found out about your site – very cool btw!!

    specwise i’m quite delighted… i will replace my motorola razr with the jolla which is quite similar… same dimensions, albeit the jolla will have a bigger display… resolution will stay the same but the ppi should be better as the razr has amoled with pentile matrix – so big plus for the IPS display… it’ll be a bit thicker and heavier but that should be fine thinking of the battery and other half… battery talk-time is weird but after checking back with jollahq i think they took a more realistic approach to testing … i wouldn’t expect a phone with almost double the standby-time of some android phones to fall that much behind in talk-time…

    lastly i wanted to share an article with u that i also shared with jollatides – it’s about a new midrange phone from LG which is said to cost about 400 USD (albeit i guess without taxes) and has some similar specs to the jolla, of course lacking sailfish OS… i consider this as an example that the jolla doesn’t have too low specs for its price: http://www.engadget.com/2013/10/01/lg-g-pro-lite-dual-optimus/

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    7 years ago

    it’s a 5-point touch screen, though..

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Hi! Sepehr James Noori here! A geek living in Sweden.
Maemo/MeeGo/Mer/Harmattan/Sailfish & Jolla enthusiast who is keen to share knowledge with friends.
Proud N900, N9 and Jolla owner!
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