Assuming you are in US, it seems dependent on ATT backbone. That is not a complete turnoff for me. I use ATT and the covereage is almost perfect. I cannot recall the last time I lost service.

I would be willing to call the company with questions and try it for everyone, assuming the pass the qusstions. Do you send ifo to AI like fairphone? Do you have any deals with Google? Are you open source?

Well, nevermind. They have nothing in stock that has a North American modem.

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

350$USD and runs linux ? HOW have I not heard of this ?

[–] BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago

Jolla is definitely interesting, but search around, there are caveats.

One notable thing is that until pretty recently they were on a subscription model for OS updates, that turned a lot of people off. I get the need for continued funding, but definitely not something I'd want to deal with on my phone.

Also, for me personally, my phone is partially for work too so it needs to be compatible with that or else I honestly probably don't really even need a phone. Jolla has some preliminary support there, but there's no way it could pass our requirements for MDM compliance at my company and I doubt it would for most others. There are things that are non-optional there in relation to audit requirements that a lot of very different companies all have to comply with and it's just not compatible with the idea. That's probably going to be the major sticking point for any smaller players trying to break into the mobile market.

I might consider a Jolla tablet if they gave it another shot, but we do have a lot more options in the linux non-phone portable space.