It'd be lovely if all these efforts crystallized into a truly open Linux-based mobile platform available to the masses, even as a niche thing.<p>Sailfish is far from open yet, but it's a very good OS.<p>Nokia produced incredibly good hardware, with the added benefit of a physical keyboard in case of the N900. This is a must. They seem to be getting back to business. It'd make a lot of sense for them to buy Jolla and rebuild Maemo, which should have never been discontinued!
Nokia had an assembly plant in Salo, which it closed down in 2012 I think. So there's probably still quite a bit of work force trained specifically for this job available in Salo.<p>Also good news for Salo (my home town)! Salo hasn't been doing so well financially since Nokia left.
I wonder whether the Turing phone will work in the US? The Jolla phone doesn't work very well because the chipset doesn't support US 3G or 4G frequencies.
Funny side note: The logo for Turing phones is almost the same as the logo of Bungie's Destiny (a video game).<p><a href="https://www.turingphone.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.turingphone.com/</a>
<a href="https://www.google.com/webhp?q=destiny+logo" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/webhp?q=destiny+logo</a>
The article correctly quotes 10-20 jobs per 1k units, but the mayor of Salo has apparently said[0] that there's probably an extra zero there, so reality could be closer to one or two per 1k.<p>[0] <a href="http://m.iltalehti.fi/digi/2016022621178689_du.shtml" rel="nofollow">http://m.iltalehti.fi/digi/2016022621178689_du.shtml</a>
I received my Jolla phone just two days ago, after a slight delay. (The company was open about this, so I had no feelings of forboding.) I'm delighted with it!<p>Sailfish OS is smooth and efficient, and Android blends seamlessly into the system.<p>Understandably, parts of the OS are closed-source (it <i>is</i> a commercial project, after all), but the open parts make it incredibly easy to hack for; it's far more accessible than any other phone OS. One <i>wants</i> Sailfish to succeed!
I'm very skeptical of the "liquidmorphium" frame.<p>For phone frame I would wan't high scratch resistance and high toughness. Especially high toughness, so it doesn't shatter on impact. Liquid metals are high strength, low toughness. I don't need the strength, as I usually don't use my phone as structural element. OK it tries to bend a little in my pocket, but that's relatively small stress. ABS plastic seems to be doing fine against that.
Another phone manufacturer making security phones in Finland: <a href="http://www.bittium.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.bittium.com/</a>