I honestly don't know why there is so much Jolla love here. I backed their tablet Kickstarter project early on and never got a product. Only a series of "it will take a bit longer" emails that got more spaced out and then stopped altogether. And then they made very strange deals for russian support/carriers/... I can forgive losing money but I feel they just strung us along. And then the jolla-russia link is just scary and I struggle to believe this has been fully resolved and all their liquidity problems (which drove them initially to Russia) are gone?

https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/01/jolla-cut-ties-russia/

https://jolla.com/content/uploads/2023/11/Former_leadership_...

All very confusing.. this summary captures it well. But then the company also wants to run the AI route..

> Jolla's return to the smartphone market follows a turbulent decade during which the company nearly collapsed, pivoted to licensing its Sailfish OS platform, severed business ties with Russia after the invasion of Ukraine, and later reorganized under the new corporate structure Jollyboys. The reset produced a device assembled in Salo, Finland that combines mid-range mobile silicon, a Linux-based operating system with optional Android app compatibility, and a modular back cover system designed to encourage hardware customization.

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> Jolla is also developing Mind2, a compact AI computing device intended to function as a privacy-preserving personal assistant that operates primarily on local hardware. Rather than transmitting email, calendar, or document data to remote servers, the system is designed to ingest personal information locally and answer queries directly on the device.

https://www.techspot.com/news/111540-jolla-sailfish-pitches-...