The ‘European’ Jolla Phone Is an Anti-Big-Tech Smartphone

The Finnish company Jolla is back with the Linux-powered Jolla Phone. It's being positioned as an antidote to the US-dominated smartphone status quo of Android and iOS.

Jolla may not be a household name, but for more than a decade, the Finnish company has positioned its Linux-based Sailfish OS as an alternative to the mobile software duopoly that is Google's Android and Apple's iOS.

Now, 13 years since it tried to cut through the market with the Jolla Phone—a device which remarkably received software updates through 2020—it's back with a successor of the same name.

This time, the company is positioning its handset as the “European phone.” This bit of marketing caters to the growing distrust in US digital services and platforms that has arisen since Big Tech sidled up to the second Trump administration.

The new Jolla Phone (pronounced “Yolla”) costs 649 euros ...