According to uptime I'm now a full week into my Jolla Phone 2 adventure. I absolutely love the phone. Phone calls are crisp and clear, no connectivity issues so far, Bluetooth works with all devices I've tried it with (not many, but VAPPEBY Portable, Sennheiser Momentum M2 AEBT, Shure AONIC 40 and Toyota Touch 2 with Go). Signal works (both natively using Whisperfish available on Storeman or using the Android app through AppSupport).
Other than that I've got Bitwarden and Authenticator going, Nextcloud sync, Obsidian, my bank's app, my public transit service's app, my mail service's app and a lot of other stuff. The fingerprint scanner is super fast and unlocks the phone the moment I touch it. It all feels really smooth. I can't seem to organize icons on the app menu, which is something I'd like to do; I'm sure there's a patch or dot file for that, but it should be easily accessible. On the home screen you can see open apps, but the screen preview/thumbnails are often missing so I have to guess what apps they are. I hope that is also fixed in an upcoming release.
When it comes to photo quality it is quite good in daylight, but in low light settings it's terrible. I'll get around to posting some samples later. I previously said speaker audio is not good, but it's actually not that bad. I did an informal comparison for myself between the iPhone 14 and the Jolla 2 and I think the iPhone is slightly better—sound feels fuller on the iPhone, while there's a bit of a reverb/accent thing going on with the Jolla.
Regarding build quality, I've dropped it twice. Got a beauty dent, but other than that, all good.
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