Apropos of the fact that nobody ever shows the actual OS, I did do a video showing the actual OS, if anyone wants to see it being used.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pMfezSulhw

To me this is way ahead of iOS/Android, the native browser sucks, and it requires some massaging to get everything running smoothly, but the UX is second to none. That fact well supported by how many features have been copied by Apple/Google over the years.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45785840

I only jumped into Android after my Symbian phone died, and by then Symbian Belle, with QT and PIPS (PIPS Is POSIX on Symbian OS), it was already shapping great.

That Burning Memo was really a downer.

edit: I want this phone, I have reserved a slot in the coming batch.

Just posing as an average Joe here, someone who does not host their own storage, calendar, contacts, phone tracking, remote wipe, the "free" features Google and Apple are known for on their phones.

The "whatever you wish" seems to indicate that this is a regular switch that can be configured to turn off certain functionality. Is that true?

I was hoping for a solution that physically disconnects the microphone/cameras/etc, or at least acts at some lower level than the OS. But if it's flexible and configurable then it sadly doesn't look as secure.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/anttisaarnio_just-incredible-...

I would say the same for global south. I am a US citizen, but the rest of the world is crazy to depend so much on US and China.

The phone looks good. I have looked at GrapheneOS, but not Jolla.

Oh the joy, of being able to back it up with restic, integrate my email, text and script based workflows, and have total control of the ports and software that runs on the device. That would be amazing!

This is coming from someone who has for the longest time been invested in Apple and the Apple Ecosystem. I adored the ease of integration of everything. The amazing synergy between their designers, and their engineers. I never really minded that things came later to the Apple Ecosystem. It just worked. And it was great.

But the golden statue, the absolute pathetic DMA attitude from Apple. It started to get to me. And I am trying to now get out of that Apple Ecosystem.

I don't think it'll be smooth. I think the process will be painful as I try to work around some of the limitations. No NFC payments will be my biggest painpoint as an ADHD addled man who forgets his wallet at least 3x a week. But it's worth trying. And it's worth supporting alternatives.

Possibly the best per storage RAM price on the market right now!

There was a community poll and I believe a headphone jack was the second-most requested feature after a MicroSD slot.

I appreciate they have to draw a line under the feature set somewhere, however the cost of an audio jack is literal pennies and I'm quite sure the PCB designers could have squeezed it in somewhere.

As someone who has no interest in wireless accessories it makes me unwilling to buy the phone.

The original iPhone SE was the last time I enjoyed a phone’s design.

IMO there's a paradox with these privacy-focused mobile solutions. Just as with the expensive flagship corporate devices, the massive price tags suggest an assumption that we are doing all our computing on mobile. That's now the case for most normies. But for anyone who really cares about their privacy (not to mention sanity), there's a better solution available: repatriate most of one's computing to a laptop. At which point all these mobile devices become unjustifiably expensive. Hence the paradox.

PS: downvoting a reasoned opinion, apart from being lazy and toxic in any community, does not constitute a rebuttal.

I guess this is a descendent of my 16 year old Nokia N900, and probably the best phone I had. It ran the Maemo operating system, and its UI was a forerunner to a lot of what is current. It also had a built in, full, terminal.

Also, as an italian, Jolla reminds me a lot of the word "Ciolla", which you can only guess what it's a slang for. That doesn't help.

The world premiere of the European Phone

https://jolla.com/content/uploads/2026/03/Jolla_Phone_PressR...

It is absolutely not. More than misleading title.

People are jumping on this "EU sovereignty" thing band-wagon and milking it for all it's worth.

Uhhhh… so why isn’t that final price stated, even provisionally?

I mean, if it’s going to be a 300€ phone, imma gonna bite. But if it’s going to be a 500+€ phone, I am going to want to know ahead of time. I don’t like surprises where cost is concerned. Leaves a very bad taste in the mouth.

It was to be expected that a lot of corps will want to milk the term "EU sovereignty" and good willed naive people who don't look inside the packaging.