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Jolla Blog
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Jolla Blog is the company blog at blog.jolla.com, writing about hardware and startups. Since 2015, 41 different Hacker News readers have linked it 52 times, most often “Introducing Sailfish X and all the details you want to know”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-15, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (18) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters cite Jolla's blog as the official source for Sailfish OS releases, device update support, investor news, tablet refund status, and CEO letters about the company's direction.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 18 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Introducing Sailfish X and all the details you want to know3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-08-26
- New Year’s Greetings from Jolla3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-12-31
- /jolla7/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-05-24
- Jolla Tablet refunds2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-06-26
- Jolla Is Back in Business2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-12-18
- A Message in a Bottle – From the Mer Project2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-04-03
- Sailfish OS 5.0 Tampella is here2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-02-24
- Suomenlinna (Sailfish OS 4.3 released, Linux for mobile phones)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-11-10
- /jolla-tablet-closure/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-11-30
- Sailfish 3.0.3 Hossa2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-05-10
What Hacker News says?
I think they do, just an old one as ESR AFAIK does not guarantee you stability of the internal APIS needed for embedding between ESR versions. I think it's at least 45 ESR, as mentioned in release notes ~year ago: https://blog.jolla.com/hossa/ There is an issue tracking the Gecko update on the community discussion/bug reporting tool used for Sailfish OS: https://together.jolla.com/question/133621/update-gecko-in-t..…
Comment linking /hossa/
on “GeckoView for Android”Submitted Open letter to Jolla community: through the tough times as a story · 47 points
HN discussionRostelecom (Russia public telecom) basically has majority stake in Sailfish. This stuff is not hard to search online, you know. https://together.jolla.com/question/178875/rostelecom-acquir... https://www.mobileworldlive.com/devices/news-devices/russian... https://blog.jolla.com/new-strategic-investor-joins-sailfish... et al. But this is not the problem. I would not have any problem with a 100% russian OS, as long as…
Comment linking /new-strategic-investor-joins-sailfish-family/
on “Sailfish 4”Submitted Jolla Tablet refunds as a story · 38 points
HN discussionThey probably meant this: https://blog.jolla.com/new-strategic-investor-joins-sailfish...
Comment linking /new-strategic-investor-joins-sailfish-family/
on “Sailfish 4”Submitted Sailfish opens its HW adaptation code for Sony Xperia as a story · 28 points
HN discussionI don't mean be rude, but outside the SV bubble, funding is extremely hard and when companies are on the brink "ethics" becomes a luxury you can't really afford. That's not an argument for not complaining against what was done, but given what they're doing - fighting two Goliaths that have 10000x the resources, I just wish people would give them another chance. https://blog.jolla.com/jolla-tablet-closure/
Comment linking /jolla-tablet-closure/
on “SailfishOS: A Linux-based European alternative to dominant mobile OSes”Submitted Sailfish 3 is here as a story · 22 points
HN discussionI'm not familiar with the background here. There was a blog post committing to refunds given sufficient cashflow, posted in 2017: < https://blog.jolla.com/summer-2017-ceo-update/ > HN discussion: < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14637748 > It does appear that Jolla has shipped other products (SailfishOS, the Jolla Phone in 2013, some tablets, and others, see Wikipedia: < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jolla#Sai…
Comment linking /summer-2017-ceo-update/
on “SailfishOS: A Linux-based European alternative to dominant mobile OSes”Submitted Sailfish OS Oulanka is now available as a story · 20 points
HN discussionI'm using Sailfish OS on an Xperia X since when it became available. My main reason to migrate from Android was "battery life" which was confirmed (battery now lasts ~5 days instead of the usual 2-3), but the OS has a lot of small and bigger bugs (e.g. carrier selection, 2G/3G/4G priority, stuck data comm for Android apps) and missing features (notoriously: tethering/wlan access point, bluetooth) that do not current…
Comment linking /sailfish-os-2-1-4-now-available-early-access/
on “Jolla is the last company with an 'alternative' mobile operating system”Submitted Sailfish OS 5.0 Tampella is here as a story · 7 points
HN discussionHard no on giving Jolla a cent. Jolla rug-pulled [1] people who crowd-funded [2] their tablet in 2014. Jolla used the crowd-funding campaign to butter up VCs for their next funding round [3] and then decided the Asian LLC handling the crowdfunding would go bankrupt, leaving backers with no tablets and most with no refund. [4] The real kicker was that the tablets were ALREADY manufactured by their ODM, Jolla just nev…
Comment linking /second_phase_refund/
on “Jolla Phone Pre-Order”Submitted [Early Access] Sailfish OS Fiskarsinjoki as a story · 7 points
HN discussionThey are going to make it open (they promise to, at least): https://blog.jolla.com/letter-jolla-ceo/
Comment linking /letter-jolla-ceo/
on “Ask HN: What are the OSS alternatives to iOS/Android?”Submitted Suomenlinna (Sailfish OS 4.3 released, Linux for mobile phones) as a story · 5 points
HN discussionCase study: Sailfish Watch https://blog.jolla.com/watch/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailfish_smartwatch
Comment linking /watch/
on “Google is buying Fossil’s smartwatch tech for $40M”Submitted Introducing Sailfish X and all the details you want to know as a story · 5 points
HN discussiontl;dr - Jolla tried to make a tablet based on an existing Chinese tablet design (Aigo X86). [0] They screwed up the project management to legendary levels, lied to backers, and kept the money. Backers have received NOTHING from Jolla and still don't have a refund. What Jolla did to Jolla Tablet backers borders on fraud. Jolla had the chance for a popular product with people who wanted an Apple/Google alternative, bu…
Comment linking /jolla-tablet-closure/
on “Jolla’s Sailfish certified as Russian government’s first ‘Android alternative’”Submitted Early access: Sailfish OS summer update Björnträsket is here as a story · 5 points
HN discussionhow exactly is an unlocked bootloader after 4 years of use going to help to reduce e-waste? It allows you install a different operating systems. When newer versions of Windows ran slower on old systems, many people switched to Linux to use the same hardware for some more years. And we do have different mobile OS too today. The free LineageOS also has breathed new life to many an old device. Jolla, a Finnish company,…
Comment linking /jolla7/
on “iFixit tells the sad story of how Samsung “ruined” its upcycling program”Submitted Sailfish Mobile OS 5.0 Tampella is here as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThey are releasing Sailfish OS for the Single-SIM version of the Sony Xperia X in September: https://blog.jolla.com/sailfishx/
Comment linking /sailfishx/
on “Sailfish OS – Independent Mobile OS”Submitted The Xperia 10 III with Sailfish OS as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSailfish is great and the only device they have ever dropped support for got 7 years of updates. https://blog.jolla.com/jolla7/
Comment linking /jolla7/
on “Staggering stat: 87% of U.S. teenagers have iPhones”Submitted Jolla Turns 10 Years as a story · 4 points
HN discussionIt seems like the Sony Xperia X is becoming a sailfish option: https://blog.jolla.com/sony-xperia-project-update/ Now if only I could work sony's naming scheme. Apparently the x series is the replacement of the z series (what happened to the y series?). Then looking at local retailers, all I can find are the XZ phones, so who knows what they are. Haven't looked at specs yet because I'm lost in code names. I really w…
Comment linking /sony-xperia-project-update/
on “Fiction: Who Killed Windows Phone?”Submitted Sailfish 2.0 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThey brought this upon themselves. Their progress updates on the tablet project have been consistently late, vague, and they withheld information from the backers for as long as possible. They didn't even change the pre-order page when it was clear they missed the promised shipment date. Example: their press release about debt restructuring was released on Friday (20 November), but there was no explanation to IGG ba…
Comment linking /tablet_schedule_aptoide_store/
on “Open letter to Jolla community: through the tough times”Submitted Sailfish OS Suomenlinna brings increased security, stability and reliability as a story · 3 points
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