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

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday November 28, 2013 @03:58PM 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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Re:Had a good run with Nokia by tiagosousa · 2013-11-28 22:10 · Score: 5, Informative

Am sure this new model is an "Android Metoo" phone.
Far fom it! Sailfish has a very distinct feel and it actually goes back a few years, being from the same lineage of Meego and Maemo before it. Check out the main interface features in this short video. And it's a proper GNU/Linux system (as opposed to Android/Linux), if you're into that sort of thing.