I am planning to get the Jolla phone this summer, Google de facto banning F-Droid is a deal breaker. Just need to save up the €800 needed for the 12GB RAM / 256 GB storage variant in September.

I ordered a Jolla phone, should come in September, will do a review then!

I have Jolla C and older rooted Xperia X with sailfish. I was looking for old pictures a few months ago and desided to see if those still work. They had been laying in the carage. Both are up and running (my sons play games on them now). Jolla C was released 2016.

I have not been following them lately but I think I would consider buying one if I did not have a phone provided by employer...

Same but for Samsung. I like my foldables too much. The Fold 7 is the greatest phone I've ever owned.

Some more context would be helpful (to let people make up their own minds). I've looked into PinePhone and Jolla, but I've only heard about the other brands listed.

They had an ambitious project of designing a phone from scratch and ran into complications when covid hit just like other manufacturers, causing further delays. They eventually shipped the phone, and it does as advertised.

You can order today and it will arrive in a few weeks. It's still the best GNU/Linux phone available today (which says a lot nearly a decade after the design), can easily flash multiple distributions on it.

You're still using a platform upon which Google has an enormous influence, including making life much more difficult for projects like GrapheneOS. And I think it's only a matter of timer before they'll take more aggressive measures.

Btw, I am not saying one should or shouldn't use a Pixel with GrapheneOS.

My buddy did that. Didn't read the fine print. So he either pays off the $700 phone cash or let's Google invade his life long enough for it to be paid off by monthly credits, and he can unlock the bootloader.

I’m willing to learn totally new things and let go of some niceties even if I’m ever again able to buy iPhone 13 mini sized phone for under 600 euros.

Fun fact is that apple mocked Google (Android) for their phones being too big. Only later to go full on big phones.

There seems to be a trend for larger phones that I’m just not on board with

I have a Moto Razr 50ultra flip phone. Excellent pocketability, a lot of tasks can be perormed on the small outside screen, flip open for content consumption etc To me its a geeat design

I want a phone the size of the iPhone 4s.

I daily drive Ubuntu touch on a Fairphone 5. It is totally doable, but there is some sacrifice compared to the experience on a commercial OS. I think you will also get the best experience on UT if you lurk around in the community, as there are some good tips there on how to get the most out of it. (Like which smart watches are compatible, which browser is the least buggy, how to customize stuff)

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I still weep at the loss of HTC as a viable phone maker.

What?? Do you have an android phone? Google is so deeply integrated that you can't even disable uninstall it.

Thanks for doing this.

Also, I'm not surprised to see Canada absent from the list (as is tradition...)

Hiroh appears to be a vaporware; looking for it now, I think it was meant to release in March and then April, websites still shows April release date but that month has come and gone with no release.

I thought Mobian was an international project?