Joël

After a long silence in X, @JollaHQ is back. And we're bringing something Europe desperately needs. The Jolla Phone: Europe's independent smartphone running #SailfishOS 5. In 2013, when we founded Jolla from @nokia MeeGo’s ashes, people called us naive. "You can't compete with iOS and Android," they said. They were right about one thing: we weren't trying to compete. We were building an alternative. Today, that alternative matters more than ever. Every Android phone, every iPhone — they all phone home to California. Your data, your habits, your conversations: processed, analyzed, stored on someone else's terms. GDPR promised European digital sovereignty. But what good are data protection laws when your entire digital life runs on American infrastructure? This isn't about nationalism. It's about choice. It's about owning your device instead of renting it. It's about a phone that respects you enough to give you: • Sailfish OS 5 — the only commercially viable European mobile OS • A physical privacy switch (kill camera/mic when you want) • A replaceable battery (remember those?) • Android app compatibility (because we're practical) • No Google Play Services siphoning your data We spent 12 years in the wilderness, keeping Sailfish OS alive through die-hard community support. While the mobile OS graveyard filled with names like Symbian, MeeGo, Firefox OS and Windows Phone — we survived. Now there are only four commercially viable mobile operating systems left in the world and only one is from Europe: • iOS (US) • Android (US) • HarmonyOS (China) • Sailfish OS (Europe) ⭐️ This comeback isn't driven by investors or quarterly targets. It's driven by something simpler: We just love building products that actually deserves to exist. No fake-it-until-you-make-it. Just engineering, iteration, and a belief that Europe needs its own mobile platform. The phone pre-order launches today at jolla.com. 5G, dual-SIM, 12GB RAM, replaceable covers in Snow White, Kaamos Black, and The Orange (yes, THAT orange — nostalgia included). If you believe #Europe should have alternatives to #BigTech, if you're tired of being the product instead of a respected customer, if you remember what it felt like when phones were tools instead of surveillance devices — this is for you. We're not naive. We're just stubborn. Welcome back, Jolla. 🇪🇺 Pre-order: jolla.com/phone #Jolla #SailfishOS #DeGoogle #european #DigitalSovereignty