correction,
It does come with a web browser,

- That remains the singular whole goal of a Ubuntu Phone:
Handphone with a web browser.

Does precisely nothing else except play music and twitter.

Which means as a linux system it has been gutted.
I have had a go at installing such things as vpn,
cups, claws-mail, nodejs, freenet. etc but it is clamped to
a root filesystem that is too small to accommodate
much more than a few utilities (much less IDE stuff).
I did manage to get a Python framework into it,
but the timeout issue and lack of multitasking
derails applications.
And the timeout issue (somewhat fixable with some effort)
means most apps will halt mid-sentence
when the screensaver comes on.
It it just not designed to run
anything that you are not staring at.

They even had one kind soul who made an alternative
to the Ubuntu store (uApp) who tries to filter out actual
'Apps' against the tsunami of cr@p that is webf@rt.
it sometimes appear as if he has given up
at this Sisyphean task.


It is perverse.

If it was a working system that actually did anything
besides repackage web browsing sessions as webf@rts
then it would be reasonable to ask for an account,
only maybe.

As a linux phone it is a complete belly-flop,
there are simply too many things carved out of it
to run anything resembling linux stuff that had working GUI.

I am not familiar with Jolla,
I was hoping the experience there was a bit less tragic.