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True, but I personally can say that I'm very happy to hear this, as I've been hoping for a serious contender besides Android and IOS.

I would like to have a good phone, with a non-dead app ecosystem that is sold to me by a phone vendor as a stand-alone product without a lifestyle template/belief system attached to it.

Until this news, Jolla was an "also ran" in my perception, now they are a prime contender for my next smartphone. (Might also be tempted by an upper-tier Firefox OS phone, if that ever happens.)

Maybe, just maybe, there will come a time when we have a major smartphone company in Europe. I'm all for it.

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"Maybe, just maybe, there will come a time when we have a major smartphone company in Europe again. I'm all for it."

(FTFY :) Ericsson pioneered with the R380, Symbian was a decent smartphone OS for its day, and Nokia was Nokia)

I also want Europe to have a major smartphone company, and I say that as an overtly (and possibly overly) patriotic American. Competition and choice are good things. Duopolies are usually not good.

"True, but I personally can say that I'm very happy to hear this, as I've been hoping for a serious contender besides Android and IOS."

Give it a couple years. Samsung's the biggest manufacturer of Android devices and they've been working on Tizen[0] to curtail their dependency on Google.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tizen

I agree, I think we really need someone who will try to make something new and gain small % of the markets so that ios/android will also have to start innovating something cool again. That said, I've personally been burned before by the n900 and N9 which were pretty much "dead on arrival", so I'm a bit reluctant to just buy the Jolla device. Even though the company behind the device is totally different.

I think I'll have to give my iphone5 to my mom and in return take her N9 and install the Sailfish OS to it, just to get the feel of the OS in daily use.

About the Firefox OS, you could just flash a Nexus phone and have it run on that.

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