Jolla Phone: Articles, videos and discussions summary

Oops, ignorance…
Thanks for informing and for the javascript trick.

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New Finnish article from today.

Thank you @canne for the french article.

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I allowed myself to copy the relevant parts of post #1 to this post:

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I added an new Finnish article from Yle, includes a video clip also featured in the evening news. The article is about the former Nokia manufacturing facility in Salo, wich is still thriving with new companies. Jolla is one of them, doing the final assembly of the Jolla phone there.

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Thank you for the article! Quote (translated with Deepl) “We need to grow. The plan is to have different activities next year, says Pienimäki.” just makes ne super happy :slight_smile:

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Very good! Thank you

Sami Pienimäki/Jolla: “European technology is of interest not only to private individuals, but also to public administrations across Europe. For example, in Denmark we have advanced negotiations.”

:star_struck: NICE!

Read: “across Europe” = many countries :flexed_biceps:

Read: “Denmark with advanced negotiations” = how many phones going to danish authorities? Quite many I assume! Trump is really helping Jolla here :rofl:

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That is indeed very very nice thing! I hope that many public administrations will make sensible decision and ditch duopoly for European solution!

Now it is definitely good change for Jolla to grow being really third option for everyone.

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Just found: Jolla haastaa puhelinjätit lupaamalla yksityisyyttä | HS.fi . Article in Finnish but very good read. Best part, Sami estimated revenue to be 12-14M€ in 2026 and Jolla to make profit :100: :fire: In 2024 Jolla made 1M€ in revenue. That probably includes only phone side, but still huge leap forward! Unfortunately haven’t seen 2025 figures. Aim for this year is 20k phones, which is already 10x from initial goal :slight_smile:

Can’t dear to imagine what will be the situation next year, would imagine Jolla team to grow considerable and brake this years phone sale quantities! I just hope they keep their foots on the ground and don’t start to go too adventurous. They mentioned their own VPN and cloud solutions, which are good, but I hope they don’t spread too thinly and keep focus what is the most important thing here, our beloved SailfishOS <3

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Added two new Finnish articles from Iltalehti and Iltasanomat and did some general unifying/cleaning to the formatting in the Finnish articles section.

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Added an article of HBL Hufvudstadsbladet (Helsingfors/Helsinki) in Swedish (unfortunately behind paywall)

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I posted a link to a first impressions video on youtube on a channel that was previously pretty dead and got within 2 days 32000 views and a lot of largely positive comments. Not too bad I think.

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After a couple weeks of daily-driving Sailfish OS on the new Jolla Phone 2 (2026), here’s my take on the European, privacy-first alternative to the Android and iOS duopoly!

PeerTube available at Jolla Phone 2 & Sailfish OS: A Real Third Option - MakerTube

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Very good, honest, and professional video. I have a question about the camera: does it use Camera API 2.0 and offer it to Android apps as well? If so, then the OpenCamera Android app could use it, allowing HDR/DRO and saving in RAW, etc.

I can still use HDR with OpenCamera on the Jolla C2, and it takes pictures that are comparably good to those on my coworker’s Samsung Galaxy A56.

So, this option could be a way to improve picture quality until Jolla updates their camera-app.

Maybe you can test the differences on the J2 with OpenCamera. I should be getting my J2 today, and I’ll test it too and report back here.

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Not too familiar with the Open Camera app, but found I was able to change it to Camera2 API (wasn’t the default) and at least that made the viewfinder responsive, so that’s nice.

Here is an album of DNG raws, DRO JPG, HDR jpg from my Immich for comparison: Public Share

The DNG looked as expected in Darktable, so looks like this will be a good option for the camera. In my testing for the video I was simply using either stock Camera app or Advanced Camera.

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Added new article(s) in Finnish published today by Iltalehti.

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I hope that with the regular shipping of at least batch 1, the deafening silence even among media that has previously reported about the preorder, will come to an end.

On your share, is there a way to know which picture was made with which camera/app?
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They were all with the primary camera and all with OpenCamera + camera2 API (set via the app).