[Hope] Jolla-Nokia joint venture

It's up to Nokia. I doubt they are considering re-entering the mobile phone business. Probably not even the consumer market. Unfortunately.

Considering the best selling Windows Phone device is a 3 year old Nokia, this should give them a little confidence. Nokia has enough fans around the world. It depends on what they want to do with this. Android is the safer bet for sure, but why not making two identical devices, one of them running SailfishOS? No need for distribution and support because jolla would have to do this through their website. There's pretty little risk there for Nokia.

Nokia seems to have (smartly) focused on creating the infrastructure of web services and not the devices for consuming said services. Case in point: marketing the Ozo Virtual Reality camera but not offering products for the soon-to-be-saturated VR-glass market. Maybe they will license some designs as proof-of-concept -devices, but I doubt they'll be a big phone/tablet manufacturer anytime soon. Sailfish OS would make a great universal touch-device interface though, so I also hope that Nokia might license it :)

All I Have To Do Is Dream - Everly Brothers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbU3zdAgiX8 ;-p

In my understanding, what Jolla needs first is revenue from business agreements (partnerships or whatever) with (a) mobile hardware actors, (b) mobile software publishers. Today, Nokia is neither of them.