Maybe jolla can finally afford to repay those that backed its failed tablet.
this post was submitted on 03 Mar 2026
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Convince me this won't have a built in backdoor and/or automatically scan your photos looking for "suspicious" content (for the children, of course).
If European laws mandate this then this "european" phone will of course do it. That's what you get when asking for "digital sovereignty" - instead of tech corporations serving interests of US government you have tech corporations serving interests of European governments.
Of course one would have to trust Jolla. But then again, isn’t that always the case for everything that isn’t 100% open source? And even then, there could be compromised code somewhere. SFOS is in use for many years, there is an active community around it but the closed source parts of the OS, including hardware vendor drivers, are, well, closed source.
But then that’s just it. Whom do we want to trust? There is no 100% open source phone and SFOS seems the only persistent Linux-based OS for phones around.
The ringtones would either be the best or the worst thing you've ever heard, no in between.
I am planning to buy myself a Jolla phone later this year.
Planning to use it in parallel with my Android phone, I want to prep for switching off Android.
Banking apps and eGovernment apps is going to be a massive issue. I am really hoping there will be a big push in Europe to adopt SailfishOS.
It says it'll support android apps through a compatability layer.
I highly doubt banking and eGov apps will work through the compatibility layer. But that's why I want to try using both phones in parallel; to find how to best manage the transition.
Let us know how it goes. I'd love one, but I'm not in the EU.
Wonder if I will ever witness a joint effort of the EU to support a European solution to Smartphones and OS.
Just did a quick search... Is the OS really subscription based?
OS is free, you can subscribe as a donation method.
https://commerce.jolla.com/products/sailfish-os-voluntary-subscription