Jolla Phone (October 2026)

WarmWash

What does "Assembled in Finland" mean?

xandrius

I hope Ubuntu Touch has native support for this, as it's a great OS with massive potential and active community.

itomato

If this Sailfish phone is 700 and Commodore's is 500, I know which Sailfish device I can pay attention to.

nicman23

> 99€ down payment to lock your October delivery ...

Tiberium

Wanted to mention that Sailfish has a lot of closed-source components, especially UI-related, despite the overall marketing/"vibe" making it look very open. If anything, AOSP (Android) is more open than Sailfish. I don't think this has changed with Sailfish 5, see e.g.: - https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/sailfish-os-clarifying-claims... - https://docs.sailfishos.org/Develop/Open_Source/

Marciplan

why this over Fairphone?

cassianoleal

Have they unlocked the bootloader? Can I install a different OS on it?

imzadi

I hope it eats you if you don't wear your Christmas clothes

boesboes

Careful with preordering, they seem to ignore requests to cancel & the community is rather hostile to any form of criticism

bilekas

I like the idea of these new phones that might be a bit more privacy centered, and even with some different OSes but I think the biggest problem for a lot of adoption is the compatibility with things like banking apps, 2fa etc. It makes it quite an impossible daily driver thanks to some strange rules.

spaqin

I still can't take a device with a mid-range Mediatek seriously. Probably from my XDA days, where just its presence meant locked bootloaders and no kernel sources. Congrats on selling them but "assembled in EU" can't be the main selling point.

dengolius

Does anyone know when they'll sell their company and product to russia again?

CiTyBear

Personal experience with Jolla: I bought their first mobile (still have it somewhere) that would be a "Linux Phone that run android app". Wanted to support it and was ready to expect some bugs but it did not work all. No support at all, most of android app did not work. The OS was not finished that it was already obsolete. And now there are doing it again like the first one never existed. I have zero trust in this company

sourcegrift

Google is so anti open it's the new Microsoft. I hope for a day when my phone runs nixos with Qt apps. Qt is so much better than java that I'm sure I'll be able to make do in 4gb what android takes 16gb for. In the era of hallucinated apps, this doesn't even seen like an imaginary wishful scenario.

Artoooooor

Another almost good phone without a mini jack :( User-replaceable battery, SD card port, mini jack, touchscreen that works consistently. Do I really ask for that much?

utopiah

Went from iPhone (with PostMarketOS on PinePhones as tests) to /e/OS on a CMF Nothing installed by Murena to GrapheneOS on 2nd hand Pixel 8. I'm not advocating any of those specifically but I do recommend you take whatever step you are comfortable with to a saner mobile technology lifestyle. IMHO it's a worthwhile learning journey that is probably less challenging and more empowering than you can imagine.

ktosobcy

I got first Jolla Phone ages ago, wanted to love it but in the end I disliked it bebause of gesture-oriented UI (it simply didn't 'click' for me and was annoying to use in the long run). Right now I'm more excited about PostmarketOS which seems to be more vanilla Linux with more approachable UI…

mrbluecoat

Ship to the US with GrapheneOS and I'll be first in line :)

RomanPushkin

750 USD? I like the idea. And appreciate all the people who support such products, so phones are getting cheaper. But no way I'm getting it for over $150. It looks really cheap, and the marketing is bad, honestly. I think these corporations have spoiled me, and I was really looking for huuuuge wow effect for $750, but it's just a Linux phone.

gitowiec

Why so expensive :(