This is not intended to be a "should I buy it?" thread, but I'd like to ask those who are using a Jolla now in January 2014: exactly how beta is it? I've read the reviews, the forums, the defenders, the detractors and none of it really tells me whether the Jolla phone is ready for primetime use.

In particular it's very easy to find historical reports of problems / deficiencies / inadequacies, but not so easy to establish which of them have been fixed by subsequent official software updates, which of them have been worked around by the community and whether there are any serious impediments to using Jolla as a day-to-day phone. (yes, I know how subjective that is).

Some specific questions:

1) What is the current state of play with LTE support?
2) Has the bug with alarm times being an hour off for UK users been fixed yet?
3) Is there support for Syncevolution or other SyncML client yet?
4) Is there native support for landscape browsing yet?
5) Is there native support for an OpenVPN client?

To provide some context: I am a long-term user of N900 as my day-to-day phone, and I am disposed to considering a Jolla as a replacement, rather than a move to iPhone/Android/Blackberry. But, it is a big move - not only do I have to buy the phone, I'll need a new SIM to fit it and most likely a larger microSD card, so it is a substantial investment. Then there is the learning curve, which also an investment.

If and when Jolla/Sailfish answers "yes" to all five of the questions above that's probably sufficient for me to buy it, but I'm unlikely to do so based solely on being "unlike". I have been watching this since pre-order and have not yet been convinced; I begin to wonder whether to buy Android now with the promise of running Sailfish on it later, or whether Jolla will be mature enough to replace my N900 in the near future...