Turre<p>Life with Sailfish OS, day 1, hour 1</p><p>Having gotten my banking app to run on Sailfish by downgrading to a slightly older version, starting an experiment to use Jolla C2 as a daily driver. I've spent a few evenings tinkering with this, hunting, installing and configuring necessary apps etc. What follows is random observations from the first hour after swapping the SIM over from my real daily driver (Nokia XR20) and letting the reality sink in:</p><p>Obligatory disclaimer: this is not the intended use of the C2 phone - it's a "reference phone", aimed at developers. So we need to give the hardware a break. But, as an observation, the protective cover doesn't sit properly on the button side, making the use of the main lock/unlock button annoying. It looks and feels like an ill-fitting condom, really. I might end up ditching the cover, this is not a phone I would take to the garage anyhow.</p><p>There are zero swipe options or actions for the keyboard. In fact there are zero options for configuring the keyboard at all. What I immediately miss are two things:<br>- moving the cursor by swiping over space bar<br>- number row on the keyboard, I prefer it always there<br>The latter is one of those tiny details that make up ones preferences, I expect to be in the minority wrt this. The former is going to be painful.</p><p>The default search engine in the Sailfish OS native browser is Google.</p><p>Let that sink in for a moment.</p><p>This is by far the biggest WTF so far, a slap in the face, really. For a phone whose raison d'etre is to be NOT FROM GOOGLE, and advertised with a privacy edge, this is a pretty terrible blunder. The default alternative search engines are just as bad, and there's no obvious way to install or configure alternatives from the browser.</p><p>Another dive into forum.sailfishos.org reveals that once you visit a search engine (such as www.quant.com), it magically appears in the search engine preferences. Which is kinda neat, but totally undiscoverable for the new user.</p><p><a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/jolla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>jolla</span></a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/sailfishos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sailfishos</span></a></p><p>Edit: post language to English</p>