Jolla phone, day 1

Today, I picked up my Jolla phone, after more weeks of checking tracking apps much more often than I care to admit. This will be very unsorted, but I want to try and keep track of how my impressions evolve. So far, I have played around with what comes in the box (plus the Jolla apps they suggested installing when I logged into my account) and a single third-party app: the Mastodon app Tooter. It feels … like a fresh blast from the past. When phones were a bit more different from each other. Things were still being figured out. A while back, it struck me as I was using my max-sixed Iphone that I was missing just having a phone with a different feel in the hand. The Jolla delivers that difference in a great way. Because it is mainly plastic rather than metal and glass, it feels warmer and friendlier to the touch. Side by side with my Iphone, they are surprisingly close in all dimensions, but the Jolla somehow feels a lot nimbler to hold. I guess that comes down to the weight difference,…