Hopefully for the future development of the phone Qualcomm will be persuaded to see sense and the benefit of Open Source and free up the code to their software blob.

It is just unfortunate that a phone clearly aimed at the developer community inhibits their work by preventing the possibility of access to all code and full re-flashing back to factory or modified rom.

If Qualcomm fails to be supportive I hope the next Jolla phone will have a chipset from a manufacturer that understands the principles of FOSS.

In the meantime the phone is a good middle of the road platform to develop Sailfish in a real hardware environment and improve the GUI by getting feedback from real users on physical hardware. I am certainly finding mine very interesting and rewarding which is good Value For Money.

The long term future of the Jolla company and Sailfish are great and they should be supported despite the current issues with binary blobs in their first phone.

Richard