Wild unfounded speculation warning

China Mobile were on the MeeGo working group and, from articles I've read, were affronted when Elop pulled the plug.

Imagine if China Mobile are Jollas financial backers, they'd have a HUGE ready made customer base. If Tomi Ahonen's figures are correct China Mobile is bigger than all North American carriers combined.

Manufacturing would undoubtedly be done by companies such as ZTE, Huawei, FoxConn, Compal or Gigabyte so they shouldn't have a problem with volumes.

I've also read, for political reasons, the Chinese government would rather their citizens use mobile phones with an open source OS rather than with a closed source OS from the USA.

I'd really like to know where Jolla's backing is coming from because I think it could tell us a lot about their chances of success.