Oh. I thought the N9 was a really good development [not that I own one - I've so far avoided the whole smartphone thing all together.], so on that end it's good. The Jolla webpage is really uninspiring though - there's nothing at all about what they actually try to do, other than repeating 'other half' - a rather daft marketing term IMO.

Still - I may, eventually switch, so this is nice.

What I'd wish that - either of these - would go for are people concerned about quite how much data smartphones leak out. It'd be an ample way to establish themselves, really, and I'd guess as small niche operators would / could be their major selling point: They won't be able to compete against the big ones who are happy to have a few loss makers - but at the same time that makes them less susceptible, if they play their cars right, to the need to leak out user data to advertisers and similar. Just by guaranteeing [and as both are based on open-source OSes that's not that hard] that they don't log/store/utilise your data - without having to guarantee the same for third party apps, even. I'd be fairly certain there'd be a sufficiently large amount of people out there for a small company to fill that niche and do respectively well.

Did you stop reading because of the mention of dual boot?

It's a pity if more users stopped because of this, and then assumed all kinds of wrong things about the phone.

Well, for me dual boot in a phone equals hassle, thus from that point I didn't care.
Now I've looked at the specs, they look nice, but still .. $700 for a phone?? I cannot afford that :/
My current phone was a freephone with a 8euro/month subscription.

I kind like Cinnamon. On my private PC I changed to Mint+Cinnamon (and on my little netbook Mint+XFCE). My work group still uses Ubuntu, so I use it at work too. But like you I got rid of Unity and replaced it with Gnome 3.