I would also want to get rid of google **** play. Problem is as enduser we need it since for example I can't pay my bills without downloading that damn swedish bankid. And guess what? Such stuff is only available on Google play or Apple store yes thats madness but reality whatever we like it or not.

My workaround for that was to download it on one of my Android devices and then use "APK Extractor" to copy the APK file to dropbox.

You guys should srsly consider making your next phone phablet size i.e. approx. 5.7". There's a tonne of Galaxy Note neckbeards who are about to be alienated from Samsung over the next 12mth. Samsung has decided to go the "Apple way" & remove mSD, removable battery, & also go with a more premium but fragile build-quality.

Thanks to your Tablet efforts, you would be much better prepared for a large Phone. In a masterfully crafted crowfunding initiative, you should pitch WQHD/QHD display (leave it for you to decide on LCD or OLED), the fastest possible built-in NAND (UFS 2.x or at least the latest/greatest eMMC), & the latest/greatest mSD standard.

SoC will leave to you guys, x86 or ARM, preferably ARM, but x86 has (slowly but surely) been getting increasingly competitive. And ofc it should be a "world-phone", compatible on as many cellular bands as possible, & uses the latest/greatest cellular standards.

Then you should add just 1 perk: "Active Digitiser" i.e. like the Note's S-pen*. I wouldn't add any other perks, as that's more than enough to focus on & "get right". You would of course keep "TOH" feature, but it may have to remain as neglected as it was with the J1 (i.e rely on the community to step-up if/when it can), but you'd probably upgrade it's interface as I2C's too limiting.

Longer term you'd also try to implement a "Continuum" feature, like we're seeing coming to Win10Mobile & a similar implementation coming to UbuntuTouch (i.e bridge the divide between Mobile & Desktop), but that may be beyond your meagre resources.

Reading between the lines there's very little money left for your device making business, so you'd probably have to rely almost entirely on a well crafted crowd-funding initiative, one which avoids promises/user_expectations jumping too far ahead of what you can deliver. The core specs I've suggested aren't "pie in the sky", especially if we're talking about a phone that's not shipping till this time next year -or later.

Whaddya think?
*MS is also expected to release a Phablet device in Nov/Dec this year, it supposedly uses a digitiser very similar to the Surface Pro 3 i.e. "excellent"

Some of my latest dreamings/musings sent to Jolla, I don't expect it to ever happen...

You lost me at the 5.7 inch screen.

And to think that someone at jolla could be putting my tablet in a box instead of reading this.....

There's no expectation they be using huge amounts of their time reading this thread, in fact they more than likely won't be.

But you said that you have sent this to jolla, meaning they won't have to read this thread because you have sent it to them.

Anyway, good luck with with your dream phone, maybe jolla will produce jolla note S 2

Some of my latest dreamings/musings sent to Jolla, I don't expect it to ever happen...

Something for the HW division/company to consider I guess. We still don't know what kind of funding/resourcing they'll have. Maybe somebody is willing to invest a fair amount of millions and we get a proper device selection?