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The independent European Do It Together (DIT) Linux phone, shaped by the people who use it.

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  • 5G with dual nano-SIM
  • 12GB RAM and 256GB storage expandable up to 2TB
  • Sailfish OS 5
  • Support for Android apps with Jolla AppSupport
  • User replaceable back cover with colour options
  • User replaceable battery
  • Physical Privacy Switch

  • No tracking, no calling home, no hidden analytics
  • User configurable physical Privacy Switch - turn off you microphone, bluetooth, Android apps, or whatever you wish

  • Honouring the original Jolla Phone form factor and design
  • Replaceable back cover
  • Available in three distinct colours inspired by Nordic nature

  • Snow White
  • Kaamos Black
  • The Orange

A successor to the iconic original Jolla Phone from 2013, brought to 2026 with modern specs and honoring the Jolla heritage design. And faster, smoother, more capable than the current Jolla C2.

A phone you can actually daily-drive. Still Private. Still Yours.

Over the past months, Sailfish OS community members voted on what the next Jolla device should be. The key characteristics, specifications and features of the device.

Based on community voting and real user needs, this device has only one mission:

Put control back in your hands.

KEY BENEFITS OF PRE-ORDERING

Special Edition Back Cover — Pre-order batch only

Made as a thank-you to early supporters

Directly contribute in making the product a reality

  • Community Voice, Real Device: The questionnaire received overwhelming flow of input and this project captures that
  • Now it is time to act! Your pre-order determines whether the project becomes reality

DIT: DO IT TOGETHER

This isn’t your regular smartphone project.

It’s a community mission.

  • You voted on the device
  • You guided its specs and definition
  • You shaped the philosophy
  • And now you help bring it to life

Every pre-order makes production become a reality.

Our Community

TECH SPECS

  • SoC: High performant Mediatek 5G platform
  • RAM: 12GB
  • Storage: 256GB + expandable with microSDXC
  • Cellular: 4G + 5G with dual nano-SIM and global roaming modem configuration
  • Display: 6.36” ~390ppi FullHD AMOLED, aspect ratio 20:9, Gorilla Glass
  • Cameras: 50MP Wide + 13MP Ultrawide main cameras, front facing wide-lens selfie camera
  • Battery: approx. 5,500mAh, user replaceable
  • Connectivity: WiFi 6, BT 5.4, NFC
  • Dimensions: ~158 x 74 x 9mm
  • Other: Power key fingerprint reader, user changeable backcover, RGB indication LED, Privacy Switch

Technical specification subject to final confirmation upon final payment and manufacturing. Minor alterations may apply.

FAQ

Because this is a community-funded device and we need committed pre-orders to turn the designs into a full product program and commit to order the first production batch. If we reach 2,000 units we start the full product program. If not, you get a full refund.

The final price of the product is not set yet but we estimate it to settle between 599€ - 699€ (incl. your local VAT). The final price depends on the confirmation of the final specification and the Bill-of-Materials, which happens on due course during the product program. Notably in particular memory component prices have had exceptionally high volatility during this year. 

By pre-ordering you confirm your special price of total 499€.

It is real. Definition and real electro-mechanical design is underway, based on the community voting. To turn the designs into a full product program and commit to order the first batch, we need in minimum 2,000 committed pre-orders.

Once the manufacturing pathway is confirmed at 2,000 pre-orders.

Yes, there will be. We’ll make those available on due course the project. 

Estimated by end of 1H/2026.

Yes, we will design the cellular band configuration to enable global travelling as much as possible, including e.g. roaming in the U.S. carrier networks.

The initial sales markets are EU, UK, Switzerland and Norway. Entering other markets, such as the U.S. and Canada are to be decided due course based on potential interest from the areas.  

We will design the cellular band configuration to enable potential future markets, including major U.S. carrier networks. 


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  • By mhitza 2025-12-0516:045 reply

    47% percent of voters wanted a ~6" phone, and 12% of voters a ~7" phone.

    I guess me and the remaining 41% of voters are still left wishing for 5" phones to make a comeback.

    • By nikanj 2025-12-0516:596 reply

      Every now and then some phone manufacturer mistakes online sentiment for actual demand and gets burned making a mini phone that won’t sell

      • By thesuitonym 2025-12-0517:542 reply

        I've been IT operations for years, and when I order laptops I sometimes do a little experiment. If I ask people if they want a 15.6" laptop or a 13" laptop, they always say 15.6. If I don't give them a choice and just start buying 13" laptops, everybody tells me how much they love the smaller laptop, and people still on the 15.6" models start looking around asking when they can get the smaller one.

        People don't know what they want unless you give it to them.

        • By teekert 2025-12-157:41

          I never understood big laptops (at least for work, where you walk around with them), there's always a screen to plug into.

          At home, ok, at the kitchen table it can be handy to have some more real-estate, but again just for "light work" and entertainment I'd say.

        • By aerique 2025-12-1111:451 reply

          My eyes want a 19" laptop these days.

          • By lproven 2025-12-1511:37

            Exactly. I rather miss the 15.6" Toshiba Satellite Pro A300 I had when I emigrated, a decade back.

            It wasn't very portable, no, but around the house, it was great. Good sized full-travel keyboard, numeric keypad, lots of ports, and a nice big clear comfortable eye-friendly screen. Two SATA bays, so I could have the affordable combination (a dozen years ago) of a small fast SSD for the OS and a huge big cheap HDD for the data. Tiny trackpad, but I used a mouse.

            There is a 17" classic Thinkpad before they went to nasty thin fashion-follower keyboards, but they only seem to be available in the USA and even given my fondness for old Thinkpads, I am not willing to pay £1000 for a second-hand decade-old one.

      • By Telaneo 2025-12-0517:074 reply

        What 5-ish inch screen phone has even been released within the past 5 years? The only ones I can think of are the Unihertz phones, and those don't get a single update after getting shoved out the door, not to mention that they're probably full of Chinese backdoors. I'd buy that exact phone in a heartbeat if it didn't have those problems, and all the other ones I've seen have similar dealbreakers.

        • By Borealid 2025-12-0710:14

          The Phonemax R4 GT uses a 4.3" screen and was released this year.

          There are not many, but there are not zero either.

        • By seba_dos1 2025-12-0520:01

          If 5-ish includes 5.7", then the Librem 5 that I'm typing this on would qualify. It's still borderline too big for my tastes though.

        • By hxtk 2025-12-0517:173 reply

          iPhone had the 12 and 13 mini, but they didn't sell, so there was no iPhone 14 mini and hasn't been one since. That was a 5.4" display.

          • By maelito 2025-12-0517:241 reply

            > but they didn't sell

            What do you call "didn't sell" ? In numbers.

            • By nebula8804 2025-12-0517:392 reply

              • By maelito 2025-12-0610:221 reply

                In march of that year, but was higher before, no ? Anyway, that's ~ 3 million phones. It's a lot.

                • By hxtk 2025-12-070:27

                  I'm making this distinction post-hoc, so I already know how it turned out: they ultimately decided to stop making those smaller devices. I assume that means it wasn't enough sales to be a financially viable product, and to me, selling "enough" would mean that Apple found it profitable to maintain the supply chains and assembly lines for those smaller devices and continued to invest in the product.

                  Arguing against myself, Apple could be discontinuing the smaller models because they did market research and found that most buyers of smaller, cheaper devices could be converted to buyers of larger, more expensive devices if those smaller devices didn't exist. Auto manufacturers are doing just that, discontinuing or enlarging smaller light trucks in favor of larger models that are subject to less regulation and therefore can be designed and manufactured more cheaply and might offer even more profit.

                  If Apple has or had that strategy, then my assumptions are flawed because no matter how many mini iPhones they sell, they would still want to get rid of the line as long as most of those customers could be converted to full-size iPhone customers.

              • By MBCook 2025-12-063:09

                It’s a hell of a lot of phones.

          • By Telaneo 2025-12-0517:46

            I skipped that one because my SE 2 was less than a year old and I didn't want to go up a size.

          • By Wistar 2025-12-0517:321 reply

            I cherish my iPhone 12 Mini and treat it with great care as it is the form factor I want and I want it to last as long as possible.

            • By teekert 2025-12-159:25

              Same here. Battery is a bit bad though. But I carry a battery pack. I do notice the charging port is also getting worse recently. I don't know what I'll buy after this...

        • By cluckindan 2025-12-0517:171 reply

          iPhone SE 3 was released in 2022

          • By Telaneo 2025-12-0517:48

            Very fair. I skipped it because my SE 2 was still going strong when that came out, which I kind of regret now, since I can't get a new SE 3 anymore.

      • By nebula8804 2025-12-0517:381 reply

        Yeah...like Apple: https://www.macrumors.com/2022/04/21/iphone-13-mini-unpopula...

        As someone holding onto their iPhone mini 13 for dear life, I hope they will release a one off in a few years once support for the 13 mini ends.

        • By Lord-Jobo 2025-12-0517:52

          Yeah I feel like putting it closer to the SE lifecycle is must be a better decision than fully axing the mini lineup. If we get a mini 13, then a mini 19 or 20? I can live with that.

      • By boznz 2025-12-0517:591 reply

        Only Apple would consider selling millions, but not tens of millions a failure.

        • By MBCook 2025-12-063:09

          Right. We don’t know that Apple didn’t make money. Only that they didn’t make enough money. By whatever definition they used.

      • By port11 2025-12-076:16

        Make a smaller phone with good battery life, not smaller AND thinner. The iPhone minis barely got me through the workday, let alone a full day.

      • By maelito 2025-12-0517:251 reply

        Small phones are also way less addictive. It's not in the interest of the mobile ecosystem.

        • By nebula8804 2025-12-0517:451 reply

          How do you assess that? I'd imagine it would be more along the lines of is the phone frictionless to use?

          This is just an anecdote but I owned every Google Nexus phone they made up to Nexus 5. A series of bugs caused priceless videos to get ruined and I decided to try iPhone after that. I didn't realize just how much I unconsciously hated using the Nexus phone and that contributed to me not actually adopting smartphone software until I got the iPhone. When the phone and the OS were a burden it led to the phone being avoided. I dont know which was better. I appreciate the battery life, camera and general stability but I hate the new addictions to social media it has caused.

          • By maelito 2025-12-0610:20

            Just evaluating my dependency. Was way lower with a small phone than with my 6 inch.

            It could be assessed by a study, I have opinions until then.

    • By dijit 2025-12-0516:554 reply

      Supply chain has left us.

      Since there's no new development happening with small phones, we'd have to settle for "older spec" screens (IE, new stock iPhone 5 screens, with none of the colour accuracy, frame-rate etc improvements from the last 10 years).

      People don't like "old spec", so they'd probably not buy those devices.

      If you're a small player, then you're downstream of the supply chain, you don't make the rules.

      Chicken and Egg problem.

      Ironically people think there's no market for small phones due to apple making a "small phone" which had a larger screen size than an iPhone 6.. which was when phones started getting too big for me, and many people I spoke to.

      So, you make a small phone that isn't actually small, it sells like poop so you presume that people don't want small phones..

      • By jeffbee 2025-12-0517:021 reply

        You know what, that is exactly what Lenovo executives were telling their customers right up until the moment that Apple released Retina devices. Lenovo swore in a blog post that because of the overall panel market it was quite impossible to put an IPS display in a laptop, then a few days later Apple released a 221 DPI 15" IPS MacBook Pro.

        • By dijit 2025-12-0517:021 reply

          Apple definitely has the grunt I'm talking about to push the supply chain to change.

          • By MBCook 2025-12-063:081 reply

            And Lenovo doesn’t?

            • By dijit 2025-12-067:101 reply

              If all thinkpads did the same thing, then maybe they would.

              If it was the flagship laptop (t14s or x1 carbon) then, yeah.

              Otherwise, no.

              Lenovo is a smaller player by far than HP or Dell, and less focused than Microsoft or Apple (commanding lower prices on average also).

              The most popular thinkpad is actually the E14, which is a budget notebook. Most finance departments can’t tell the difference and its usually developers getting the good hardware, so we have a warped perspective.

              • By jeffbee 2025-12-0618:13

                > Lenovo is a smaller player by far than HP or Dell

                Wut.

      • By nialv7 2025-12-0520:581 reply

        > Supply chain has left us.

        <rant>

        Who made the decision? There are still so many of us wanting a compact phone, but the big tech companies (Google, Apple, etc.) said no, therefore we can't have it. Not only can we not have it, they also closed the door on everyone, now even if someone wants to service this section of the market, they can't. Because, yes, the supply chain has left us.

        This is power - they are taking away our freedoms and anatomy. They are making decisions for us and we have absolutely no say.

        </rant>

        Compact phones is but one of examples. A more current example would be the rocketing DRAM price. We got do something to stop this, but I feel so powerless.

        • By Fnoord 2025-12-0816:08

          > We got do something to stop this, but I feel so powerless.

          I avoid anything from Sam Altman, and share the news that this asshole is single-handedly screwing up the DRAM market. It isn't much, but it is the least I can do.

      • By SoftTalker 2025-12-0517:004 reply

        > colour accuracy, frame-rate

        Absolutely irrelevant for what I do with a phone, and I'd wager that 90% of users would not notice the difference.

        • By dogma1138 2025-12-0517:55

          Variable frame rate screens aren’t just for making the phone feel snappier but are also needed for the battery to last longer.

          If your production volume isn’t high enough to justify a custom screen to be cut you are stuck with what is available on the market.

          And even if 5” screens are available now in the form of NOS or upcycled refurbs that may not be the case 2 or 3 not to mention 5+ years down the line.

          So you have to go with what not only is available today but with what is still likely to be available throughout the expected usable lifetime of your product.

        • By crossroadsguy 2025-12-0517:251 reply

          I had iPhone 12 Mini and then 14 and now 17. I can't practically tell the difference except for battery life, weight, and size.

          • By burningChrome 2025-12-0518:151 reply

            It will be pretty imperceivable when you stay within the same ecosystem. If you went from your 17 and then went to a mid tier phone like a Samsung A71, you would notice a difference.

            Display is something I for sure started paying attention to when I was jumping back and forth between Android and Apple when I went from my OnePlus to Apple and then to Samsung noticed differences.

            • By MBCook 2025-12-063:071 reply

              Small improvements add up.

              If GP picked up that 12 again, they’d notice.

              • By plomme 2025-12-068:59

                Wife has a 16 pro, I’m on a 13 mini. Other than her phone being way too big I don’t notice any difference.

                And why should I? Reading text on the web, calling, sms’ing, listening to music or using navigation does not require “next gen” hardware. Hell, it doesn’t even require current gen hardware. It would probably work just fine on 2000s era hardware.

        • By thesuitonym 2025-12-0517:48

          90% wouldn't notice, but of those 90%, 5% compared specs and got the phone with better color accuracy "just in case," and 95% just went to their local retailer and either bought the newest phone or the cheapest phone.

        • By dijit 2025-12-0517:022 reply

          Are you really telling me that people wouldn't look at the spec-sheet and state (loudly) that they won't buy a phone because "in 2025 it doesn't even have 120fps"?

          I don't believe you if that's the case.

          • By rob74 2025-12-0517:06

            I'm not the OP, but if you ask me, I'll tell you that I think most phone users out there don't even know what a fps is, let alone how many fps their smartphone has...

          • By SoftTalker 2025-12-0517:151 reply

            I've never looked at the spec sheet when I bought a phone.

            • By dijit 2025-12-0517:27

              yet, every time there’s a “niche” product that people asked for on HN the first comment is almost always about specifications being out of date

      • By sho_hn 2025-12-0516:571 reply

        Re us/we, you're not associated with Jolla, right? For clarity.

        • By dijit 2025-12-0516:59

          To clarify: no.

          Though I suspect I worked with many staff members at Nokia. Their former CTO was my boss.

    • By lvspiff 2025-12-0516:551 reply

      What about those of us that were expecting an earpiece and glasses with AR for calling by now?

      • By dijit 2025-12-0517:04

        FYI, if you have an Apple Watch with LTE you can take facetime calls with it using your Airpods.

        Feels kinda weird, definitely works.

        (same for music)

    • By t0bia_s 2025-12-067:571 reply

      Dimensions: ~158 x 74 x 9mm

      It's way too big for me. Anything above 71mm width is unconfortable to hold in one hand or pocket.

      • By Ekaros 2025-12-0615:55

        Currently going from 67mm to 71.2mm. And I kinda can expect pain. And that is pretty much the narrowest phone available on the market in traditional form. And I already can expect that grip won't be fully usable.

  • By everdrive 2025-12-0517:364 reply

    Android and iOS need to be shaken up so badly that I welcome more or less anything into this space, no matter how flawed. That said, I think the chances I buy one of these is very low. At the moment, I keep a smart phone solely so that finding work is not difficult. You need quite the personal network to explain that "I don't have a smart phone."

    Otherwise, I'm trying to abstain from smart phone usage as much as possible: the market is probably _never_ going to solve one which solves addiction problem. (the best solution for this is to have a desktop computer which you only sit at for specific tasks)

    On the other hand, if I could run my company's OTP and it were much more private than iOS or Android I would probably jump ship.

    • By Aachen 2025-12-0615:28

      You "welcome" this because the market needs to be shaken up "so badly", but won't buy it? What does that mean then, that you'll allow it to exist "no matter how flawed"? I'm genuinely confused as to what this is trying to say

    • By m4rtink 2025-12-0519:43

      Its a compact Linux PC in a phone form factor - especially if you do not install the Android emulation layer. :)

    • By MinimalAction 2025-12-0717:53

      I echo your sentiments on smartphone addiction problem. But I don't understand why you wouldn't buy it although this is in the same spirit of shaking up the duopoly you alluded to.

    • By fumblertzu 2025-12-067:33

      What otp are you using? You can ask in the forum of sailfishos if it runs

  • By Nifty3929 2025-12-0516:083 reply

    I love the idea of the privacy switch, but I want more: I want a hard, electromechanical switch for each of: Mic, camera, GPS, wifi, cell, bluetooth. These can be tiny and aesthetically pleasing, as long as I can easily flip on/off the one I want.

    The problem with having a single button, even configurable, is that it's all-or-nothing, and I might want different things at different times.

    But thanks so much for taking the first step!

    • By whitehexagon 2025-12-0516:26

      The PinePhone has 6 dip switches for this 1. modem, 2 Wifi/BT, 3. Mic 4, rear cam, 5. front cam, 6. headphone / serial port. They say it will stay in production for 2 more years, but a lot of the accessories (LoRa cover, keyboard, etc) are already gone.

      If nothing else it is a fun platform to hack on. I'm currently hacking a toy OS for it, and the documentation for the SoC is fairly complete. I'd love an updated phone like this Jolly orange Jolla to hack on, but not at that price, and seems like it might be locked down.

    • By fsflover 2025-12-0522:12

      Librem 5 has 3 hardware kill switches that are easy to access. Even if you suddenly receive a call and your mic was off, you can immediately turn it on and speak.

    • By stackedinserter 2025-12-0516:162 reply

      If it catches traction, there will be usb-connected phone cases that expose these switches to physical controls.

      • By jeffbee 2025-12-0516:541 reply

        I don't think that's what anyone means by "physical controls" and if they do, then they don't know what they are talking about.

        • By stackedinserter 2025-12-0518:35

          "Physical controls" are those that you can physically sense. My point was everyone needs different things, so it's possible to keep core functionality simple and let users add what they need, via extensions. Like dongle hell but better.

      • By Nifty3929 2025-12-0517:211 reply

        I do not really understand what you mean by this. Can you elaborate or clarify what you mean?

        • By stackedinserter 2025-12-0518:311 reply

          I mean since it's linux phone with (hopefully) open architecture, it should be possible to create an external usb device that exposes any functionality.

          Like, to keep core functionality simple and open it for extensions ("extra battery", "knobs and switches", "ethernet" etc)

          • By fsflover 2025-12-0522:132 reply

            But if it does not really cut the power to hardware components, how will you trust that it turns your mic off?

            • By Nifty3929 2025-12-062:12

              Yes, this is what I'm getting at. I want to KNOW that the function is off, and that nothing can turn it back on except a physical action by me.

            • By stackedinserter 2025-12-0616:38

              There are many other use cases, physical control are not used only for cutting power of components.

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