Crowd sourcing for new Jolla phone with decent specs?

No R&D required. Just take a phone from a Chinese ODM and customise it. Or simply do a port to an existing phone and sell it, possibly rebranded, through Jolla distribution channels, so we can have a licensed copy of Alien Dalvik that is what is stopping me from using a Nexus 5. My suggestion goes to this one: http://www.oppo.com/en/smartphone-r7/

As a user I want this to happen as you do. But at a business point, this is not worth the effort, at least to me. It will involve a certain level of partnership with Chinese ODM, and sale is not guaranteed so why would a Jolla and ODM wants to do it, it's just not cost-effective. Plus even if Jolla just customise it, there IS A LOT OF R&D involved. And I haven't even considered future development of "Jolla" the brand or company. Doing this just does not make sense to investors.

This is beyond the topic and it requires 3 pages to explain, to simplify, it won't happen.

I design electronics devices to earn a living. We are 40 people in my company, including administration and technicians, and we manage to create about one new device per year (starting from scratch). The amount or R&D to be carried out is how to replace the manufacturer logo with the Jolla one. Apart from software drivers of course, but IIRC SailfishOS uses the Android ones, so nothing new to be done even there. If they managed to create a tablet from nothing in less than a year, how long can it take to take an existing hardware and port SailfishOS to it, especially now that a lot of parameterization has been included to support the tablet?

You must be kidding, you called "R&D" replacing manufacturer logo?! Is it what you are doing? Do you have any idea how much work hardware adaption required to be able to "sell" it? Plus warranty, components logistics as usual.

Have you worked with Chinese ODMs on phone really?

What you suggested is just naive, I hate to say but I won't spend time writing 5000 words explain to all your questions here. To sum up what you suggested won't turn into profit, won't do a long term benefit to a small company as Jolla, and (I hardly doubt) Jolla can get enough investment for this. Honestly why bother? They should stick with their long term plan.

In terms of tablet, their HW R&D is done before crowdfunding. Crowdfunding supports manufacturing not designing. They proberbly doing the same for a phone but I don't know.

Of course that's not R&D. That's what I mean: No R&D is required to have a working Jolla 2. They just have to take an existing phone and rebrand it. That's what Intex will do. That's LESS than what they have done with the Jolla Tablet. Since the tablet raised so much interest and increased public awareness about Jolla, it's very likely that even a new SailfishOS phone will do the same. So that would do good for Jolla even if they broke even by selling it. How many Jolla phone users are there currently? I guess between 50000 and 100000. Even if one fourth of them bought a new phone, that's at least 12500 phones sold, that's over 40 million euros gross supposing a price of 350 Euros for the new phone. Maybe that's not much for Jolla (but my company would live 10 years with 40 million Euros of sales, and it's about one third the size of Jolla), but even only to keep users that would leave because of their aging hardware, or to gather once more media attention, this looks more than worth to be done.

I need more RAM. I would also take much advantage from a bigger screen (the tablet will help somewhat in this).

Well spoken. We are indeed close to having enough performance in our phones. It wouldn't take much to reach that line (and cross it) with the next generation Jolla phone. For a more long-term usable product there has to be replacement parts, as an example. The hardware of the phone should possibly be designed for easy repairs too.

BTW, it seems that Björnträsket is even faster than the version that shipped with my JP-1301.

...but the retail price of Jolla Phone 1 has to be adjusted too.

(I ended up buying my daughter a smaller android device for her birthday, a device that actually cost more. It would have been much nicer to buy her a smaller Jolla device instead. Her phone has better hardware but my Jolla is faster anyway. ...and more stable.)

I would be happy to moderate the wiki page for the project.