Originally Posted by fk_lx

I remember that just after the launch I was helping Polish portal dobreprogramy.pl to have chance to test Jolla phone. I wrote a mail to Stefano if he could get a phone for review and he said that I should contact Marianne Holmund which was handling press and making list of media wanting to review freshly released Jolla phone. But I have found faster route - short time later Thomas Ruecker (tbr) who was going to Poland in December agreed that he could help with giving his unit as he will be visiting Wrocław. So I wrote once again to Stefano, that there is no need as tbr already promised that he will give them the phone to review. Stefano answer was very, very strange and consisted of one sentence:

so... wait a sec is he planning to let this guy review the phone _publicly_ ?

I thought - what the heck? Phone is already in the wild, on sale and anyone having a Jolla could give dobreprogramy.pl phone for review. I replied:

Not sure if I understand what you are asking, but in the end there will be review on the website (like they review other devices).

Stefano replied:

That is the problem

Since we don't know what SW will be used and we have internal guidelines on what SW to hand out to Press and obviously Thomas does not know them.

I will talk to him.

Stefano

So in other words, that shows that Jolla didn't want for press to test normal Jollas at that time that people bought in store, but specially prepared ones to create illusion that the phone is better than it is. It's because they had big trauma after The Verge review:
http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/29/5...nds-on-preview