Depending on what you value and expect from a "more" private device than the main hardware brands and their software these are not particularly secure physically, and to some extent via software. It's somewhere between pixel flavor of Android and grapheneos. Steps in the right direction. I will be watching for future versions especially as they come to be viable in the US.

Little reading on what I'm referring without a deep (and albeit opinionated) dive by the graphene team on the hardware, and similar but done by other teams for sailfish specifically.

https://hivesecurity.gitlab.io/blog/jolla-phone-privacy-threat-model-2026/

Edit: That is opinionated as in the architectural decisions and trade offs made to reach a certain level of protection not as in bias or "opinions". Aka software usage of opinionated in the way that a framework might be.

Edit Two: Listed graphene as the high end of security for our current offerings in the consumer space that are still considered full featured smart phones. iOS is also a contender, but they aren't as concerned with privacy as grapheneos is. They are a business first. Privacy for them while it does exist is a means to an end. Marketing doing it's thing.

Proprietary OS. Idc if it is "Linux". Android is Linux, and AOSP is open source. Why use a proprietary Linux distro over something like GrapheneOS which is fully free and open source software. I don't think any person who cares about their privacy should use SailfishOS. It really seems like privacy-washing and OSS-washing. I say kick proprietary Linux distros out of the community.

Another GrapheneOS fanboy 😞

Not an argument

It’s true, I didn’t post this video to start a debate—I just wanted to share something that might interest this community. I don’t have much time to devote to this kind of debate; everyone has their own agenda, and that’s fine. However, I’ve noticed that GrapheneOS users are particularly aggressive. I don’t have time for people like that.

I just want to buy this how can I in America

I'd be very careful about ordering something designed for another continent's cell network.

Absolutely! There is also a forum thread that discusses this topic: https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/would-the-new-2026-jolla-phone-work-in-the-us/30366

Obviously you can use a parcel forwarding package https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/potential-us-customers-for-new-jolla-phone/30640/1

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