I’m pretty sure someone in forum could guide you through that. You just have to ask. 
since july 2025
Since november 2020
Just registered and placed an order, I have been using OnePlus phones for about 10 years and really want an alternative to Android.
Couple of questions
As a non-technical user will this phone require and ability to code or need any knowledge of Linux?because I have not had much luck in the past with Linux OS.
The carcass/body of the phone, will it be plastic or metal?
“Long-term OS support, guaranteed for minimum 5 years. Incremental updates, and no forced obsolescence.”
I assume this means there will be an optional subscription after 5 years?
Thank you
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No, for basic usage you don’t need Linux knowledge.
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If you had trouble with Linux distros you should try others. There are many very user friendly. I use Mageia which is and I’m very satisfied.
Minimum 5 years means that Jolla will officially support JP2 for at least that. I very much doubt that they will require subscribtion after that. OTOH 5 years is long and many things can happen.
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Sounds great, thank you
Well I am not ready to go there again ATM.
Didnt the previous Jolla phones require a subscription in order to get updates or did I read that wrong somewhere?
Hey and welcome! Jolla planned to have subscription model, but they ditched it before ever implementing it 
Now they only have voluntary subscription model so no mandatory one.
Regarding necessary tech knowledge, I don’t have any and I have been able to solve problems thanks to this forum. There has been many helpful people directing me and many problems have been answered already
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A poll on some specific fan/poweruser subreddit is hardly proof of anything. The fact that dex got shut down with little fanfare and Google has only TALKED about including something similar, but hasn’t actually released it to the public, doesn’t say what you think it does. All that proves is what I’ve been saying all along; Its a pretty marginal feature that a lot of very loud and entitled people talk about, but barely anybody is willing to actually pay money for it.
The only mainstream video out from smartphones is wireless video streaming to show photos and videos off a phone and that’s absolutely something Jolla can do fully in software. That’s how its done on Android and iOS. What Jolla haven’t done is wired video out via the type C connector and that’s a far less common feature.
So rather than putting huge amounts of resources into a feature that’s probably only going to be used by dozens of people, put the effort instead into just polishing everything else. Making a device that’s as competitive as can be with iOS and Android devices from companies with far more money to spend rather than placating a couple dozen basement dwellers with unkept hair and BO worse than Richard Stallman.
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Phone calls more and more imply VO LTE and VO WIFI, SMS more and more imply RCS.
Car connection for call, maps and music is also now mainstreamed.
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Any source on that? (edit: afaik ot’s googol only protocol that uses googol only servers, if it’s actually independent and catching up let us know instead of spreading fud)
Because users like group chats, status, read check, gratis international messages, and use less and less classic SMS?
You can not have Whatsapp available, you can not have RCS, but it’s more and more harder to have neither of them for today communication standard habits.
Hello! Any news about final payments? Please take my money:)
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Ok so no source and googol is better than whatsapp’s facebook for some reason, cool
Edit: around me sms more and more imply iMessage and women get the ick from green bubbles, so chasing rcs is kinda pointless unless you want to be an incel, iMessage is the proprietary protocol to go for
Where did I say that?
RCS is a standard cross platform supported by carriers, iMessage is an Apple only service.
I guess I’m doing something wrong then to have WA. I don’t like it but it does work with AAS only.
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Noone cares about apple’s or googol’s proprietary protocol that only goes through their servers, no, sms does not mean rcs more and more, just as it doesn’t mean iMessage more and more, get a grip
RCS is taking over SMS in many countries, due to the fact that the switch it’s totally transparent for the users.
In France it’s just saw as a better SMS and send using SMS app.
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Good to know. Not the best solution but it’s still one at least.
Almost every device that is in use today supports RCS by default in native messaging app.
I agree with the initial statement as well because for majority default messaging means rcs, calls mean volte/voWifi, etc.
I can give you a personal example. I could not use my Xperia as an actual phone because with volte I couldn’t receive sms. I had to endure 1990 voice quality or accept that I can’t receive sms.
That is fixed now in early access and it’s huge.
That aside, I still can’t use my phone in the office because there’s almost no reception but of course there’s wifi everywhere. Every iPhone works, every android works, every smartwatch works (and I’m talking devices up to 10-12 years old), but my sfos devices don’t have vowifi so they don’t work.
With rcs I would have been able to send messages as well since it would use my wifi connection.
So yes, he is right.
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