When this sorry saga finally ends, or at least when all the backers have received their emails and committed an end result in one way or another, then that'll be the welcome end of the Jolla device business. It was worth a shot, but after NovaThor (still mourning what this might hav e been), the battery brown-outs and supply saga, the SIM card problem, the tablet screen replacement, the tablet factory switching and selling off, they've proved that little boats just can't weather those storms without hurting their customers.

I look forward to seeing what they can achieve in the field they excel at - developing and perfecting Sailfish OS for several different devices, and hopefully completing their store-approved API so developers can get the more out of that hardware in functionality and performance than any other OS on the market.

But I'm still REALLY interested to know if anyway gets a Taobao tablet...