No, this is cognitive dissonance reshaping peoples memory.

Although never specifically advertised as such, most expectations back at the beginning of 2013 were that the Jolla would contain an ST-Ericsson NovaThor SoC, most likely to have been an L8540 or an L9540 - both 1.85GHz dual core ARM Cortex-A9 with PowerVR SGX544 powering the graphics, which would have supported up to WUXGA (1920x1200). Or a vaguely comparable SoC, given that by May, when the preorder was launched, we knew ST-Ericsson had departed the business. So substantially more high end than the phone eventually delivered.

And it was not until months later that the word BETA was added to the description of the OS. And months before Jolla were prepared to admit that 'Estrada display' didn't actually mean HD at all.