I've not been paying attention to Jolla-land recently but where did the Asus connection come from?

Personally, if it was built by Asus it'd be an instant 'no' from me. The Asus built Nexus 7's I've had were too cheaply made and suffered from nvram that 'got old' necessitating regular wipes to restore some speed. One of mine also just died and wouldn't reboot at all which was a bit annoying as it was on the train at the start of a 5 day trip. We've an Asus laptop in the office and it's utter tripe.

Yota would be interesting. I'd have killed for a low power e-ink display when I was cycle touring last month. I used a Sony Z1 compact and even with it's excellent 'stamina' mode it was eating a battery doing maps and gps in about 2 days. I'm not sure how I'd mount a phone with a display on both sides to my handlebars but I'm sure I'd be able to rig something up.

Preferably I'd rather stay with Sony's excellent hardware. Nobody else is doing good waterproof phones and the design and quality is above what other people are doing even without the waterproofing. And they're doing it in phones that don't have stupid 5.5" screens.

Couple to that, my Z1c cost me about half what my Jolla cost me and it blows it away in every aspect.

Sony have opened up their hardware too with recovery mode and AOSP for most of their Z range. I would love to see Sailfish ported to Sony Zs.

http://developer.sonymobile.com/2015...devices-video/

On the other hand, the reason I'm not using my Jolla is because of too many software bugs, not the hardware.