My takeaway about the hardware specs for Jolla is that they are coming to market with a dual core device and are trying to avoid being placed in the 'mediocre tech' category by focusing away from specs and towards UX. I imagine sort of like what BB10 did.

Well, that'll be labeled 'mediocre tech,' just like BB10 has been. Not bad, but not even close to what the leading companies will be producing at that time.

As far as the Android experience is concerned, the difference will be in what version of Android apps will be running in the Jolla Android environment. BB10 should have Android 4.1 running later this year, and hopefully Jolla will have something equivalent or better.

I'm tired of the justification of low specs. I remember the 'why do we need more than one core' debate as the N9 was defended. Well, the performance advantage of higher specs seems pretty well established and I still wish the N9 had two cores to work with. I'm sure that they would have been put to good use.

On the positive side, the Jolla UI seems very nice, and probably would have been PR1.4 if Elop hadn't messed things up! I hope that Sailfish comes to the N9 soon, as I have no intention to sell mine and I'm hoping my N9 lasts a while longer.