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MeeGo Startup Jolla Signs Phone Deal

Posted by Soulskill on from the progress-is-progress dept.

chill writes "Mobile company Jolla, which is continuing development of Linux-based mobile OS Meego, signed its first sales deal today, with D.Phone, China's largest smartphone retail chain. Jolla has not released details about its first product, which is expected to be revealed later this year. The company has not yet received access to any Nokia patents."

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  1. Re:It makes the same "no First World" mistake as N by sethstorm · · Score: 4, Informative

    Apparently you have forgotten about how the N900 and N9 have sold, where the latter outdid the whorephones combined. Salespeople were complaining that they couldn't move the Lumia devices while they could move plenty of N9's if they could stock them

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  2. Reality Check, please. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    ... Has there really been anything that has started in China and made it big in Europe/North America?

    OK, How about silk, paper, gun powder, fireworks and bazillion other things chinese had ages before west heard of them?