Jolla might not be a family title, however for greater than a decade the Finnish firm has positioned its Linux-based Sailfish OS as an alternative choice to the cell software program duopoly that’s Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS.
Now, 13 years because it tried to chop by way of the market with the Jolla Telephone—a tool which remarkably acquired software program updates by way of 2020—it is again with a successor of the identical title.
This time, the corporate is positioning its handset because the “European telephone.” This bit of promoting caters to the rising mistrust in US digital providers and platforms that has arisen since Large Tech sidled as much as the second Trump administration.
The brand new Jolla Telephone (pronounced “Yolla”) prices €649, mimics the Scandinavian design of the unique, and has secured greater than 10,000 preorders since its preview in December 2025. These orders are anticipated to start transport on the finish of June. At Cellular World Congress 2026 in Barcelona this week, the corporate divulged extra particulars in regards to the telephone’s {hardware}.
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Jolla has had a turbulent historical past. After the corporate floundered the launch of its Jolla Pill in 2015, it practically went bankrupt and pivoted to licensing Sailfish OS to automotive firms and governments, together with Russia. After the invasion of Ukraine, Jolla needed to lower ties with Russia, and a company restructuring meant that Jolla’s property had been acquired by the corporate’s former administration beneath a brand new firm referred to as Jollyboys.
It received again into the smartphone recreation in 2024 with the Jolla C2 Group Telephone, made in collaboration with an area Turkish firm, and it was this expertise that gave Jolla the braveness to leap again into the {hardware} enterprise with the brand new Jolla Telephone. Not like the C2, this system is totally assembled in Salo, Finland, the place Nokia telephones had been manufactured greater than a decade in the past.
“Europeans need extra European expertise,” Sami Pienimäki, CEO of Jolla Cellular, tells WIRED. “Individuals wish to go away from Large Tech, and the opposite development is that European folks need sovereign tech—it makes it attainable for our sort of firm to have a place out there.”
Constructing a smartphone from scratch was additionally a lot tougher over a decade in the past, however in the present day, Pienimäki says the operation might be pretty lean with out having to “pay an excessive amount of up-front.”
