Jolla Announces First Meego Phone Available By End 2013

x_IamSpartacus_x writes "Jolla, the Finnish company that continued Nokia's work on the MeeGo mobile platform, announced details of its first smartphone on Monday. Availability for the Jolla device is expected by year end and can be pre-ordered now; the phone will be priced at no more than €399 (US $512.26). The Jolla hardware looks similar to that of Nokia's Lumia, with a clean, button-less front face that houses the 4.5-inch touchcscreen. The phone will use a dual-core processor and support 4G LTE in some regions. Internal storage tops out at 16 GB, but can be expanded via microSD card. The phone also includes an 8 megapixel rear camera with auto focus. The phone is also 'Android app compliant' which, in a move similar to that of BlackBerry, can help with available apps at launch."

Comments

sweet

[chibiace]

hopefully we can get some traction going for this cool project.

Re:sweet

[chriscappuccio]

Meego uses X windows, and other more traditional technologies than android, is just as fast if not faster, and works like 'standard linux' out of the box. That's kinda nice, eh?

Re:sweet

[kwark]

"They are all one app at a time with background services."

Bullshit:
-Apps can multitask without Services, just use Threads.
-Android has multiple window support.

You are confusing the UI thread being stopped (when it is not visible) with threading/multitasking. Evidence of apps multitasking is for example a Samsung Note2 with multi-window support, although for some reason in the Samsung ROM you only can use some blessed apps multiwindowed, custom ROMs unlock this for app installed apps.

Using Services give extra features/hints to the OS. Like auto(re)start. It also gives a simple way to detach the UI from lightweight background tasks.

Re: sweet

[Anonymous Coward]

Android does not have true multitasking. When I switch away from an app I can't be sure that I will come back to it in the same state that I left it in. This is especially annoying with Ajax heavy websites. They just reset to their initial state after I just wrote an email or took a picture.

My puny little N900 could do this with 256 MB RAM. Why can't my Galaxy S3 with 1 GB do the same?

Re:Phone hardware platform with expandability

[jovius]

Just found this quote by Mark Dillon the software director. Essentially anyone can create a cover (the tools are open):

“Of course we will be offering a choice of Other Halves for the user to buy but this is a place where we want to see others get involved. Designers can design Other Halves for the device, engineers or hackers or techies can design new interfaces and maybe add physical hardware features that they wish they had on their device but might have a smaller market than to deserve having a whole entire device,” he said. “We talked about 3D printing them today. So it could be those kinds of things, but really we’re offering a new kind of interface for a device so that people can really take their imagination, and I believe there will be a lot of third parties and a lot of people who have a lot of great ideas in order to help you use the Other Half of the Jolla device.”

Real multitasking

[Wesley Felter]

I used to have an N900 running Maemo with "true multitasking". A poorly-written app in the background (like Firefox with the "full Web experience" of Flash) would run down the battery in two hours. But at least I could use top to find the problem and kill -9 it.

Now I use Android where apps are specifically written to be aware of my battery.