I've been an avid Nokia/Jolla fan for quite a number of years. I had the N700, the N800, the N810, the N900, and the Jolla phone. I've still got the N900 and the Jolla phone, but I don't use them much because I live in the U.S. now and the Jolla phone only works 2G (and the N900 is really showing it's age in the software department).
If it makes anyone feel better, I bought an Xperia X and I'm really hoping that Jolla comes out with some good news this week. I've got the new phone sitting on my desk, ready to flash. I suppose if it doesn't happen, I can just sell it...
Still no release, BUT some nice and also important facts in this post.
In short: CBeta members will get the image within the next weeks. It seems like they want to provide the image bundled with an easy to use installer, which is very nice in my opinion.
As they wrote they want to hold the number of community devices low. Devices with similar chipsets to the X have a higher chance to get a port of SFOS than others. If the X compact is very similar (I don't know), chances are high. That's what I got from the post.
like they did with screens for tablet.