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Jolla: Ex-Nokia Employees Launch Smartphone (MeeGo Resurrected)

Posted by samzenpus on from the back-again dept.

mrspoonsi writes "A team of ex-Nokia employees has released the first handset running on a new smartphone platform. The Jolla phone — pronounced Yol-la — is powered by open-source operating system Sailfish, but can run most apps designed for Google's Android platform. The platform — originally called MeeGo — was developed by Nokia, but dumped in 2011 in favour of the company adopting the Windows Phone system. Nokia released just one handset running the software, the N9-00. Antti Saarnio, chairman and co-founder of Jolla, told the BBC in May that MeeGo — now called Sailfish — had not been given enough chance to succeed."

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  1. *sigh* by CreamyG31337 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Actually, as an experienced MeeGo developer, this just makes me sad because they won't sell one to North Americans. Nokia did this to us with the N9 too, but at least they sent me a developer device. These guys still haven't released the official GSM/LTE frequencies it supports for some stupid reason, so I don't even know if I should bother trying to import one.

    1. Re:*sigh* by GNious · · Score: 4, Interesting

      From Jolla's website:

      GSM/3G/4G LTE* (Works on 6 continents).

      Which doesn't answer your question, but should mean that it works unless you're living in Antarctica :)

      GSM Arena says:

      2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
      3G Network HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100
      4G Network LTE

      yeah, probably not trustworthy, but one would hope they have a (semi-)official source for it.

      Disclaimer: Mine is in the mail... :)