Sigh... what a joke... Jolla, Jolla, Jolla....
I also suspected they were going to shift the goal posts on it being a "truly premium device", to one that's "kinda high-end".
Partly because they're probably using something quite mediocre like the U8500, or the next model up at best (not the top-most one*).
With availability not till Dec or later, it's sheer stupidity to continue with their original plans to outline everything about the device within Q1.
If they do that & it doesn't have some very strong specs or at least one or two unique or top-notch hw aspects, then it's a major set-back
Sure the small community that's always rallied around Maemo/MeeGo et al will probably (at least partly) stick by them, but it won't get much wider momentum/appeal.
We'd have to hope that another Sailfish vendor does much better hw-wise, but then they prolly won't have some of the nice sw that Jolla plans to keep exclusive.
And the only vendors we've heard about so far aren't exactly well-known for quality builds, the best they may do is put powerful core components in there, & not value-add much elsewhere.
I pray to God this is a total BS story, & they're just "talking out of their ***" by making-up stuff that was never said...

*then again, being released in Dec+ now means the topmost one is possible, but there's still some Qn over how "truly competitive" that SoC is, esp. in Dec/Jan.