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Jolla has announced a new phone using its Sailfish OS so providing a full-stack European alternative to the Android/Apple duopoly.
What does full-stack mean here? Phone is fully produced in Europe? Software and online storage fully provided by European company?

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.

huge notch and huge bottom bezel with mediocre Mediatek Dimensity 7100, all this for 650EUR with specs worse than 200EUR phones, that's like 450EUR for software, a bit high surcharge...
Will it have USB C with DisplayPort alt mode?
> a full-stack European alternative

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.

The most important question missing from the FAQ is whether bank apps, government ID apps, etc. will work with this phone.
The need to support apps - when you are constantly internet-connected anyhow - is becoming less and less important. You can now pin many websites to your phone’s “desktop” and have them run identically to native apps, and sometimes with even better start-up performance.

So long as a service is being provided identically on a mobile website as it is in a native app, you can pin that website and get just the same experience without needing a native app.

My bank officially forbids access from a mobile browser (but it still works by selecting "Desktop site" in Firefox).
Nokia N900 was really great, Jolla has some of the former team people.

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.

I thought the n900 did some things better than the n9. The biggest problem was lack of portrait mode. I didn't understand at the time why they didn't "just" tweak the n900 ui instead of rewriting everything.
I bought the pre-order thing, but not sure what to expect - I guess to get an email at some point so I can buy it..
I mean 600+ euros is kind of a steep price, doubt I'll ever consider buying one because of that alone.

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.

This project has been going for years. Good to see it lives on.

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 hate the camera bump trend. I don’t need a super fancy camera, just give me something half decent and flush with the device.

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

Same. I rarely use the camera. I almost never take photos and when I do it's like a serial number or something that I just don't want to write down.

I do sometimes use the video for remote meetings but I don't care about picture quality for those.

I noticed that the orders hasn't bumped up that much since this was shared last time. Not really sure I see the growth here is showing a lot of demand for a European smartphone - although I could totally be wrong given the geopolitical situation.
Other comments have links to more details, but in short: do not support this company.

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.

The OS is proprietary.
Yes, it's how they make money as a company and pay their developers. Otherwise, we wouldn't have the choice of Sailfish OS instead of iOS or Android.

Proprietary is not necessarily bad.

This looks really cool. Orange, black and white being inspired by scandinavian design felt like a bit of a reach though.
if it doesn't run GNOME Mobile or KDE it isn't an alternative
This is the third phone on the HN main page. I’m happy to see this flurry of work at real competition in the market, but I hope the companies can survive and respond to CSVEs.
I heard and read negative things about them, do they actually ship?
That definitely seems to be the better alternative amongst all others. While I appreciate all the energy put into graphene or lineage it appears to me like way too much energy for Half baked solutions. Depending on google good will in the future too. I can understand them as hack, not that much as industrial proposals.
What's the sandboxing & app permissions story like on Sailfish OS? Is it just ordinary Linux, i.e. apps can basically do anything?
Well done, congratulations. My next phone will certainly be European to the root. Will be nice to come preinstalled with some free European (apps, socials and video hosting, like Vivaldi browser, HugstonOne local AI, Protonmail, Libreoffice, w-social, vimeo, mastodon, lemmy etc.
What's the difference between this and the Fairphone?