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While most smartphones are going with 5-inch plus display sizes and full HD plus resolutions, the Jolla sticks to a more conventional approach by offering a smaller 4.5-inch display. Now Jolla has been designed around one-handed functionality and a compact screen perfectly gels with the ideology. The device has no hardware buttons on the front, or to control the user interface. Instead, the display and the touch panel doubles up as the input method for the phone by providing navigation completely based on the use of gestures.

We are not going to get in to the technical details of the Sailfish operating system, but we would definitely like to share our experience of using it as our daily driver.

Well again, the camera is where Jolla falls short in terms of pure numbers. The smartphone rocks an 8-megapixel camera at the back that comes with a LED flash for illumination during low-light conditions. For photography lovers, the Jolla might just fall a little short of the expectations because of its low megapixel number, especially since 13-megapixel cameras are the norm on similarly-priced handsets. However, the device focusses more on quality and that same is the case with this 8-meg shooter, which aims at offering good imagery overall.

When it comes to the hardware, the Jolla can't really be called loaded. The device is based on a dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor clocked at a nimble 1.4GHz, which is aided by 1GB RAM to do all the processing and multitasking. As per today’s standards, dual-core processors are only found in budget devices. However even with these hardware specs, the Jolla smartphone managed to offer fluid performance through the course of our review, and never hung or froze.

Gesture-based UI is a little intimidating