Jolla, the smartphone start up company from Finland has announced today that it plans to launch its first Jolla smartphone running on its own Sailfish OS. It has tied up with online retailer Snapdeal to enter the Indian market soon. It has an unique design. There are two parts to the smartphone, the front and the cover which Jolla refer to as the other half. Continue reading “Jolla ties up with Snapdeal to launch Jolla smartphone in India within a month”
Jolla’s first Sailfish based smartphone went on sale back in November 2013 in Helsinki through local operator DNA and it went on sale online in select parts of Europe. We unboxed it couple of months back. The company has just announced that its Sailfish OS and the smartphone is ready for commercial release outside Europe. It has also announced that the Sailfish OS would be officially ported to Android devices. Continue reading “Jolla Smartphone, Sailfish OS ready for commercial release, ROM and launcher coming to Android devices soon”
We recently brought you the unboxing of Jolla company’s first smartphone which was also called as Jolla. Today we are bringing you the photo gallery of this interesting smartphone. The Jolla smartphone is the first device to run on Sailfish OS. The specifications of the Jolla smartphone are quite mid-range especially when compared with the powerful Android competitors.
Today we have a very interesting smartphone to for unboxing. Any guesses? Okay. We will spill it out. It is Jolla. The first smartphone to run Sailfish OS. Lets dive right into the unboxing.
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The Finnish upstart, Jolla, has just hit another milestone and is now available for purchase in Europe. Running on the Sailfish operating system, the phone has a very interesting user interface derived from the remains of the erstwhile MeeGo project. The phone is already on sale in Finland and has been shipping to users for a few days now.
Jolla’s self named phone has fairly mid range specifications but that doesn’t hold it back as the hardware and software are very well optimized for each other. The screen is a 4.5 inch display with a resolution of 540×960 pixels. Powering it is a 1.4Ghz dual core Snapdragon 400 processor paired with 1GB of RAM. The camera module is 8MP alongside a 2MP front facing unit. Users get 16GB of built in storage. Continue reading “Jolla phone goes on sale in Europe, priced at €399”
Open source advocates have a date to look forward to as Jolla has announced that it will start selling its device on 27th of November. In partnership with the Finnish operator, DNA, the much awaited phone will be sold at a pop up shop in central Helsinki for a single evening. Continue reading “Jolla’s Sailfish based smartphone to go on sale on 27th November in Helsinki”
Helsinki based smartphone startup, Jolla, has announced that it will be integrating a mapping solution powered by Nokia’s HERE Maps division in its upcoming operating system dubbed as Sailfish OS. The partnership will involve licensing up to date map data and location information such as restaurants for over 190 countries. Continue reading “Jolla smartphones to ship with Yandex app store for Android apps, HERE mapping onboard”
Seen as a major move from a small, yet significant new player in the mobile industry, Finalnd’s Jolla(pronounced as yo-la) announced today that the Sailfish OS is now fully compatible with Android apps as well as Android hardware. It was already confirmed that Sailfish would run Android apps, but the question was when. Now we know.
Taking advantage of the already robust and immensely popular Android ecosystem is what Jolla have done, on top of the unique UX the Sailfish OS offers. Not only you can download popular Android apps on the Sailfish OS, which Jolla claims, is without any modifications, the operating system is also Android hardware compatible. Meaning Vendors can take Sailfish OS and make devices with their current Android-based hardware implementations. Or one day, you can possibly load Sailfish on your Android phone, if you wish.
Continue reading “Jolla’s Sailfish OS now fully compatible with Android apps and Android hardware”
Jolla, the smartphone start up company from Finland, has just revealed its first Sailfish OS based device, with colourful replaceable shells they are calling the “Other Half”. This is the first Jolla device that has appeared ever since they started the “other half” teaser campaign on their social media channels. Running on the intuitive Sailfish operating system, the device will be able to run native apps as well as Android apps(as mentioned earlier) on a seamless user interface. We had a hands on demo of the Sailfish OS earlier at the Mobile World Congress, you can watch it for more information about the intuitive OS.
The device is slated for a end-of-2013 availability and there is currently a pre-order program in place. Here is Marc Dillon of Jolla, explaining about it –
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At MWC 2013 , we were lucky to sit down with Marc Dillon, CEO of Jolla which is a mobile start-up based in Finland. While Jolla might be new to mobile scene, most of the team previously worked with Nokia for several years before stepping out to start Jolla.If you were a fan of the Nokia N9 or any of the Maemo or MeeGo devices , you will surely appreciate the approach Jolla’s Sailfish OS brings to the mobile arena.
Watch a nice 6 minute overview of the Sailfish OS presented by none other than the CEO Marc himself on a Nokia N950 developer device.
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