The phone is value for money and buying it gives you access to the common hardware platform to develop and evaluate software and firmware.

Not only that buying the Jolla company hardware keeps Jolla going. Hopefully Jolla will get the present Qualcomm blobs unlocked and failing that there is now enough time to plan a future model that is blob free and could be certified by the FSF as being FOSS compliant. That, post Snowden, is an important USP.

Richard