How about chemist You tone down and wait for final Jolla announcement, let us hotheads have hot threads, discussions, imaginations run wild. If you don't like it, please report to jolla twitter, I am sure they will agree with you that we should cease and desist from any and all mentions of the brand. Until they reveal final NFC connection with no HWKB/extra battery/storage/IR possibility. Now is the time to dream guys, even if chemist frowns.

Ok. You win, no such option through Other Half (or useless to discuss it since we know nothing, lets discuss something we do know). So how about plugging a diode into the audio jack, or USB? Nokiabot: you mentioned you need IR to control your house. We have two outputs at the top of the phone: USB and audio jack. Is there any chance a diode plugged into one of these would be able to transmit at the frequencies your garage door control or lighting sensor is expecting a transmission? Please say yes, as then we're back to discussing Other Half (having a USB/jack connector to insert diode doing the IR interaction would be straightforward, no? sorry chemist) and we can skip the negative POV: don't discuss, wait for Jolla to explain everything, did they keep anything from you so far?