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Jolla's First Phone Goes On Sale

Posted by Soulskill on from the jolla-jolla-bill-y'all dept.

jones_supa writes "Jolla, the mobile phone company formed by ex-Nokia employees, has officially launched its first phone. It will be initially available in Finland, paired with the local telecom operator DNA. After that, it will be made available in 135 other countries. The Jolla handset runs the Sailfish OS, which is itself based on the former MeeGo platform developed by Nokia and Intel several years ago to produce Linux-based smartphone software. Sailfish can run Android apps and it also integrates Nokia's Here mapping and positioning technology. Looking at the hardware, the device sports a 1.4GHz dual-core Qualcomm processor, 1GB memory and 16GB of flash storage, plus a 4.5in 960x540 IPS touchscreen with Gorilla 2 Glass. It has the usual mobile network support, including GSM/3G/4G, 802.11b/g/n WiFi and Bluetooth, 8MP autofocus rear camera and 2MP front camera. SIM-free pricing is expected to be €399."

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  1. Re:How about porting it... by jovius · · Score: 5, Informative

    Phones capable of running Android are their major target. Interview of the CEO from today:

    In addition to applications, Jolla exploits Android’s ecosystem also in another way. Jolla’s Sailfish operating system works in almost any Android device. Due to this Jolla can subcontract its devices for a reasonable price from any smart phone manufacturing company in Asia.
    ....
    One more plus for Jolla is that the Android compatibility makes it very easy for other smart phone companies now using Android to change their OS to Jolla’s Sailfish.
    ....
    According to Pienimäki, Jolla is also planning to let individual users to download Sailfish operating system into their Android-devices.

  2. Re:Paired with.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    By charging a price that covers their cost; what's so mysterious?

  3. Re:How about porting it... by Microlith · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's also interesting to note that Wayland just shipped on a device. So much for it being "hard to fit into a mobile device." Thanks to libhybris, they just wrap the Android blob for the GPU and continue on like a standard glibc-based Linux system.

  4. Re:Pronounciation by Luckyo · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yo-lla. Finnish for "dinghy". The joke being about getting away from Elop's "burning platform".