If an OEM comes on board with a Sailfish phone and offers it up for sale within the EU, then I'll be buying it day one. If only to show that there is demand, that an OS outside of the big 3 is viable, and that the Finnish dream is alive and kicking.

No chance of Alien Dalvik (natively) on any 'Open Handset Alliance' OEMs though, until the EU anti-competition investigation kicks in at least - they're prohibited from offering Android apps on any platforms that aren't Google's Android. They can't even manufacture a Kindle tablet (if they wanted to). That means no WhatsApp. That means very, very few sales within the EU. These OEMs undoubtedly know that.

That means no Oppo, no Foxconn (manufacturing the Nokia tablet), no Huawei, no ZTE. The biggest two leftover are Xiaomi (probably the best hope) and Meizu (more interested in Aliyun). If not one of those, that leaves the more boutique OEMs - Geeksphone (who produced a Firefox OS phone), Yota (yes please), BQ (who produced an Ubuntu Touch phone) and co..

This is why I really, really don't like Google. Absolutely stifling competition.