I have written earlier on new Finnish mobile phone company Jolla at my Two new mobile phone companies from Finland and Mobile trends and predictions for 2013 articles. Jolla announces its first Sailfish OS smartphone which will be available in Europe by the end of 2013. The first Jolla phone: 4.5-inch display, Android app compliant, 399 euros
Jolla smartphone is the first handset to run Jolla’s Sailfish OS, which is essentially a reworked version of Nokia’s now defunct Meego OS. The Sailfish OS is compatible with Android apps.
In the there is request for bloggers to write about this, so this is my contribution to this Finnish company.
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Tomi Engdahl says:
With the boss believes that: nearly a million Jolla phones sold next year
“With phone is like a jewel,” says dinghy of Design, Martin Schüle Helsinki hotel Klaus Kurjessa where Jolla, presented for the first time a new phone for reporters.
Jolla sells phones already pre-orders for 399 euros. Later in stores the price may be something else.
How many phones do you sell next year?
“I think the number is closer to a million”, says Saarnio.
In the past Jolla has assured the Sailfish licensed their operating system to other electronics manufacturers. The job is now moving forward in such a way that the first Jolla will complete your Jolla phone. Then it develops Sailfish phone, which it sells to other phone brands. After the software is licensed to a separate time.
Source: http://www.tietoviikko.fi/kaikki_uutiset/jollapomo+uskoo+lahes+miljoona+myytya+puhelinta+ensi+vuonna/a902896?s=r&wtm=tietoviikko/-21052013&
Tomi Engdahl says:
Why should I buy Jolla?
Jolla has not released a complete phone specifications, but it seems like quite a large extent comparable to Nokia’s Lumia 820 model. There is therefore a top model, but the upper-middle-class device, however. And the price range is the same.
Jolla life and death lies on its operating system.
If the phone will be available in the Christmas market, the operating system has been developed to Nokia ever after less than two years. The time span is long enough so that the operating system can be expected to be properly polished, functional and free of any significant capability gaps.
Multitasking alone does not suffice as the only selling point, the iPhone and the Lumia lelumoniajo enough to power well.
The manufacturer’s software collection is also essential because the handset does not seem to be able to download programs from Google Play software store. Smart phone does not do much, if Facebook, Twitter, and Angry Birds, YouTube, or the map will not work. And we will see whether to allow Google Maps use without further compensation.
Personally for me the most disappointing Jolla phone in terms of lack of a physical keyboard. It is a shame that the company did not understand the importance of a proper QWERTY
Source: http://blogit.tietokone.fi/ossi/2013/05/miksi-ostaisin-jollan/
Tomi Engdahl says:
IL tried Jolla phone
As you can see, the design Jolla is okay, is not objectionable. The design is recognisably different.
The screen is the current standard in terms of the average level of 4.5-inch. It is too wide for regular hand so that you could use all functions with one hand.
Jolla usability problems related to the fact that the machine does not have physical buttons. To return to the Home Menu You got it swipe left or right edge such that the finger above the screen edge.
On the test scan was the worst to try several times before Jolla understood the command to the phone and opened the home menu.
It may be that the sensitivity of the touch screen further refined the final retail version. The phone presented Jolla software development manager Marc Dillon mentioned, though, that this is the final version of the display.
If the corresponding sensitivity problem is the final product, it may be complicated to use.
Jolla phone has a specialty: replaced the back cover, which will bring new features to the phone. Faceplate is a technical component, which can be programmed for a variety of content such as images, audio, and software.
Source: http://www.iltalehti.fi/digi/2013052117044090_du.shtml
Tomi Engdahl says:
3T tried: Jolla phone is fast, but it takes time to getting used
The device feel solid hand, and it provides a good grip. M
Sailfish user interface is fast. It looks a lot like the Nokia N9′s MeeGo-ons, even though there are differences. Technical features are not smartphones in the tip of the head, but it is not 400 euro price at all. The device seems to still be of a high quality for this stage of development.
Jolla’s new CEO Tom Pienimäki 3T estimates for the first Jolla phone to get excited about the Nokia N9′s fans. It seems like a logical first experiment only.
This Nokia Lumia 920 user curiosity was piqued, but still need more evidence of the use of fluency, and what is new, this will eventually bring.
Source: http://www.3t.fi/artikkeli/uutiset/teknologia/3t_kokeili_jolla_puhelin_on_nopea_mutta_vaatii_totuttelua
Tomi Engdahl says:
Jolla thing is not have a phone
Jolla can not be successful in mobile handsets, as it is a small software company. Which can not be successful as a small software company, as on its own it does not in any way be able to tear Facts mere Sail Fish.
Which can be successful if it is an agile company. Agility is the ability to see and take advantage of opportunities discontinuation in the series, which is called before for the years ahead.
The majority of what is now promised Jolla phones, does not in itself allow us other than to rapid economic flop. Most of them.
Success can not be hidden, as if Jolla announcement between the lines.
Mobile phone user to view their device in an average of 150 times a day. Smart phone owner took a glance at more than 200 time a day.
Moore believes that the result of this technology provides us with what we want the users.
This development on the safety of the Advisory loss of continuity, non-linear birth of the world.
Many people already have in their lives to testify. Just do not communicate with each other, but the entire planet for all of the infrastructure produced by the communications. This superstructure also known as big as data.
Source: http://www.tietoviikko.fi/blogit/uutiskommentti/jollan+juttu+ei+ole+puhelin/a904155?s=r&wtm=tietoviikko/-24052013&
Tomi Engdahl says:
DNA brings Jolla phone to market first in the world
DNA brings Sailfish operating system based Jolla smartphone sales as the only operator in Finland, and the first in the world. The phone is expected to enter the market later this year.
DNA’s announcement that it wants to support the “new Finnish success story”, where it sees the potential.
The operator also participated in the beginning of the phone product development. DNA’s consumer business director Pekka Väisänen says that the company has been able to affect both the design and the usability of the device.
Source: http://www.tietoviikko.fi/kaikki_uutiset/dna+tuo+jollapuhelimen+markkinoille+ensimmaisena+maailmassa/a908948?s=r&wtm=tietoviikko/-13062013&
Tomi says:
Hands-on with Jolla’s first smartphone running Sailfish OS
http://thenextweb.com/gadgets/2013/06/13/hands-on-with-jollas-first-smartphone-running-sailfish-os/
Finnish-based startup Jolla unveiled the first smartphone running Sailfish OS, its new mobile platform created from the ashes of Nokia’s abandoned MeeGo project, at the tail-end of last month.
It’s an unprecedented device, opting for an industrial design that uses two distinct and utterly contrasting parts. A sleek top half houses the display and core components, while a colorful, rounded bottom half offers additional themes and content through a separate chip.
Wrap up
The first Jolla smartphone is still in development, but it’s already shaping up to be a robust and refreshing proposition. The vertical screen layout is a nice change from Android or iOS, and the overall design is rather beautiful. The apps are sleek, it’s nippy to use and general navigation is a far-cry from the mess found on BlackBerry 10.
The question, however, remains the same. Is Jolla doing enough to carve out its own niche in the smartphone market? Is the “Other Half” just a gimmick, or a feature that consumers are crying out for?
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Tomi says:
Jolla controls the creative madness – “the nation should take more risks,”
Smartphone-listed company Jolla founder Sami Pienimäki still remember by heart date 14.2.2011. Then he decided to give Nokia a decade-long career.
The mobile phone giant was told three days before abandoning MeeGo and Windows Phones to conclude the main operating system. A small hill in Barcelona, when he heard the news. He took a few days of pondering the matter to your phone and informed his superiors attending to honor the end of MeeGo phone N9′s into the market. After that, he would leave the company.
“The supervisor said that, I understand,” Pienimäki laugh more than two years later in Helsinki hotel bar.
It is afternoon and the facilities are flocking to the media. Which is presented in the morning of the first of your smart phone. The device has already been quoted in major IT publications around the world. Pretty good company, not two years ago was not even there.
When the Nokia MeeGo rejected, Pienimäki was sure that he wanted to entrepreneur. He went into the company’s Bridge program, and went on to pull the entrepreneurship projects, supporting the Tampere office.
“We saw that this is a very mature and Liked operating system,”
He was not afraid of change. “When you take an entrepreneur must make inner peace with the fact that having a degree of risk. Do not be afraid to risk. It’s just a risk-taking, “Pienimäki formats.
According to him, the company focuses only on the fact that consumers can be developed something new and at the same time keep the existing as well as the mobile phone sector jobs in Finland.
“Thank you Nokia for us was born here in a very large mobile phone industry know-how, so of engineering, industrial design, marketing, sales and commercialization side. It needs to be cherished. It is the responsibility of all of us. ”
“I’ve been in this business for twenty years. I wanted to do something completely different, “Dillon says, and continues:” We thought that we can make the products. Why not make them yourself. ”
“I think it’s funny that this company hug each other so much,” says Marc Dillon.
Hugging is a kind way to celebrate and congratulate each other for their good work. “The Finns here to hug each other,”
Source: http://www.tietoviikko.fi/kaikki_uutiset/jollaa+ohjaa+luova+hulluus++quotsuomalaisten+olisi+otettava+enemman+riskejaquot/a910128
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Omfg, BBM looks Terrific! I can’t wait for this thing to come out on Android! So Impressive!
Tomi Engdahl says:
Jolla phone ordered “tens of thousands”
Last spring officially launched and presented to the media Jolla phone has given rise to the expected interest. According to the company for the first Jolla phone has been ordered “tens of thousands”
The company has received orders for 136 countries.
Which does not tell you the exact figure, but suggests that the phones manufactured in the early stages, at least 50 000. This, in turn, is a direct indication of orders.
Jolla in May launched a pre-order campaign, the purpose of which was to obtain funding for telephone marketing and development. Those interested had the opportunity to pay in advance for $ 100, which allows the user to make sure the phone and the delivery of the first to normal more personalized device.
The phone has a 4.5-inch touch screen, eight megapixel camera and 16 GB of storage. The phone battery is user replaceable.
Juniper Research, the dinghy that is facing a challenging task in today’s competitive, but it can be a place for a small alternative manufacturer. Research must Jolla competitors such as Nokia’s low-end Asha phones.
“The new gamblers to achieve the 13 per cent share of the market by 2018,” the research company’s report is written.
Source: http://www.iltalehti.fi/digi/2013082117394338_du.shtml
Tomi Engdahl says:
MeeGo Startup Jolla Closes Pre-Sales Campaign For Its First Phone, Booking Orders Of Up To 50,000 Units
http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/21/jolla-closes-first-pre-sales/
Jolla, the Finnish startup comprised of ex-Nokians that’s building its own MeeGo-based smartphone platform and phone hardware has closed out a pre-sales campaign for the device it showed off in May. Thing is, it’s not saying how many phones are in this first pre-order batch — so it’s not really saying very much about the level of demand it’s seeing (or not seeing).
Although Jolla is not giving out the exact number of devices prebooked it can be said that the size of the production batch for a mobile device vendor of this size is typically 50,000 units,” a Jolla spokesperson said.
Jolla’s pre-sales campaign took partial payments from buyers wanting to reserve a handset ahead of release later this year (the first device shipments are due at the start of Q4 2013).
Jolla said today it may do a second pre-sales campaign this year — but again, isn’t providing solid confirmation at this point.
Still, according to analyst Juniper Research, there is an opportunity for Jolla’s Sailfish to carve out a niche for itself as one of a number of “new emerging players” in the smartphone OS space. In a report this week the analyst said that while Android and iOS will continue to dominate the global landscape over the next five years, the “smartphone OS market will see new emerging players, such as Asha, Sailfish and emerging HTML 5 based OS players begin to gain ground in niche areas”. Collectively it’s predicting these new players could capture 13% of the market by 2018.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Jolla to start with a new pre-order campaign soon!
http://jollasuomi.fi/jolla-aloittaa-uuden-ennakkotilaus-kampanjan-pian/
Jolla’s first pre-order campaign sold so well that He who starts a new pre-order campaign soon. Which sold its first pre-order campaign rounds around 50,000 copies Jolla phones, so it was only a matter of time as the company starts the next round.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Jolla CEO of Nokia selling: “We are now the only genuine Finnish”
Ex-nokia kinds Jolla, a company founded by Nokia and Microsoft’s acquisition can be like winning the lottery.
Nokia’s former employees in a group set up in 2011, the company Jolla. The aim was to develop its own smartphone, based on the Nokia abandon MeeGo operating system.
Last week, Nokia announced the sale of the entire phone business to Microsoft. The whole of Finland was surprised and shocked at the news. But how ex-nokia Jolla types of information were received?
- I’m not surprised at the news. Nokia chose the company’s direction in 2011, when Microsoft announced cooperation. Yes something like this was to be expected Jolla CEO Tom Pienimäki says Iltalehti.
Nokia’s acquisition affects the small hill from the positive Jolla activities, even though the CEO states that “He who has never in competition with Nokia.”
- We are now the only genuine Finnish smartphone option. Which phone is sure to attract the kind of consumers who want and appreciate Finnish. We have received a lot of positive feedback that our work is important, Pienimäki says.
Small Hill points out that the Lumia’s market share has been higher in Finland than anywhere else. This explains his view that the Finns want to continue to favor domestic. This may be Jollalle an important niche.
Nokia’s acquisition does not in itself change the way Jolla plans
Could Jolla do co-operation in the future with Nokia?
- We are the owners of the thing, and they decide to potential cooperation. I do not like the Nokia co-operation impossible.
Source: http://www.iltalehti.fi/talous/2013090917466124_ta.shtml
Tomi Engdahl says:
Jolla achieved a breakthrough: Full compatibility with Android
Android applications run in a Finnish Jolla phones, the company says. Jolla Sailfish operating system can also be used on Android devices.
Jolla phones can be used for Android applications, News fledgling Finnish mobile phone manufacture
Sailfish is based on Nokia and Intel to develop Meego operating system. Sailfish is open, that is, the other phone manufacturers will be able to use it on their devices without licensing fees.
According Jolla Android apps can be used Sailfish phones as such, and the company collaborates with leading international Android app stores in order to ensure that consumers are able to download Android applications, Sailfish devices just like on Android devices.
- For example, the popular Android apps like Instagram, WhatsApp and Spotify are directly Sailfish operating system, and the future Jolla device, says CEO Tom Jolla Pienimäki release.
According to the company the next installment Jolla phones will be pre-order this week.
Source: http://www.digitoday.fi/mobiili/2013/09/16/jolla-saavutti-lapimurron-taysi-android-yhteensopivuus/201312904/66?rss=6
Tomi Engdahl says:
Android Apps can run in Jolla phones
Android applications run in a Finnish Jolla phones, the company says. Jolla Sailfish operating system can also be used on Android devices.
Jolla phones can be used for Android applications, News fledgling Finnish mobile phone manufacturer.
Jolla, the company has achieved a breakthrough in your Sailfish operating system and Google’s Android operating system compatibility.
Sailfish is based on Nokia and Intel to develop the MeeGo operating system. Sailfish is open, that is, the other phone manufacturers will be able to use it on their devices without licensing fees.
“For example, the popular Android apps like Instagram, WhatsApp and Spotify are directly Sailfish operating system, and the future Jolla device,” says CEO Tom Jolla Pienimäki
Source: http://www.tietokone.fi/artikkeli/uutiset/android_softat_saadaan_jolla_puhelimiin
Tomi Engdahl says:
Jolla does not get software from Google Play
Jolla, Chairman of the Board and Chairman of the Board Antti Saarnio tell you more Jolla phones Android compatibility.
Primarily of former Nokia mobile phone range established by the developer Jolla announced today that the company has made a breakthrough handsets for the Android compatibility. Jolla, according to the development of the Sailfish operating system can use Android applications as such.
Jolla release, the company “will cooperate with leading international Android app stores in order to ensure that consumers are able to download Android applications, Sailfish devices just like on Android devices.”
How does this full compatibility has been implemented?
“We have made a Sailfish-compatible operating system, an intermediate layer, which acts as an interpreter between Android and Sailfishin. I emphasize that this does not affect the speed of operation. ”
Jolla Chairman Antti Saarnio whether Jolla phones to purchase software from the biggest Android app store or Google Play?
“We can not at this stage to mention the negotiating partners, but I can say that of all other players in the Android Market”
“Just the exact quantities can not say, but talk about about 100 000 per application, the magnitude of the trade.”
Source: http://www.tietokone.fi/artikkeli/uutiset/google_playsta_ei_android_softia_jollaan
Tomi Engdahl says:
Sailfish OS Gains Two-Way Android Compatibility
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/09/18/0110239/sailfish-os-gains-two-way-android-compatibility
“Jolla announced that its Sailfish OS is now fully compatible with Android, letting the Linux-based mobile OS run Android apps, as well as operate on hardware configured for Android. This makes the MeeGo-based Sailfish OS the first alternative mobile Linux OS to achieve the feat.”
Tomi Engdahl says:
Jolla reveals specifications for its debut Sailfish OS smartphone
Looks to compete with big name rivals
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2295960/jolla-reveals-specifications-for-its-debut-sailfish-os-smartphone
FINNISH PHONE MAKER Jolla has finally revealed the full specifications for its debut Sailfish OS smartphone, just a day after the handset went back up for pre-order.
The firm clearly is looking to challenge its big name rivals with its phone’s specifications, as it has revealed that the phone will feature a 4.5in 960×540 AMOLED display, a user-replaceable 2,100mAh battery and a dual-core 1.4GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor.
Those who have already pre-ordered can also expect to find 1GB of RAM, 16GB of internal storage expandable via microSD card, a 2MP front-facing camera and support for 4G LTE, although it’s still unclear whether it will support all 4G networks in the UK.
With the Sailfish mobile operating system onboard, the phone will also be compatible with Android applications, although it won’t have native access to the Google Play store.
“For example, highly popular apps such as Instagram, Whatsapp and Spotify run directly on Sailfish OS,” said Jolla CEO Tomi Pienimäki. “Also Chinese Wechat – already with over 400 million users – runs on Sailfish OS.”
pre-order for €399
Tomi Engdahl says:
Jolla time to strike
One of this year’s most exciting new smartphones do not show off with a giant screen, high-speed processor or high camera. The technical information in the light Jolla newcomer to get lost in a flood of smartphone, but the dinghy was a good trump cards. The first phone should just get in stores soon.
There is room for a fourth operating system, especially as Samsung and Intel have not yet received a Tizen phone out. Firefox phones do not yet correctly on sale, and Firefox will compete even more low-cost phones.
Jolla benefit can also be calculated more grand Ubuntu Edge to crash a number of financial projects. Edge would in itself have been a very interesting novelty. It’s a shame that the price of ruined its chances.
Jolla has not made a similar mess up. The first phone is very common in available components. Technically, the phone is quite modest, but on the other hand, it is reasonable priced, pre-order 399 euros.
Jolla phone’s design is quite successful and the operating system is interesting. Sailfish operating system helps to distinguish Jolla mass, but the challenge is to get the developers. On the other hand Android apps available to facilitate the application in short supply.
Source: http://www.tietokone.fi/artikkeli/blogit/omenalohkoja/jollan_aika_iskea
Tomi Engdahl says:
Jolla was awarded the Technology Award for the promotion of open source
The smartphone company Jolla and open-source research rewarded with the Millennium Distinction Awards awards.
Prizes will be awarded by Technology Academy TAF, which last year granted the Millennium Technology Prize.
Personal prize went to an information and service economy, Professor Matti Rossi Aalto University. Rossi has studied since 2005, open source, and the data related to business models.
The company was awarded the prize Jolla, which develops open source-based operating system for operating the phone.
Source: http://www.tietoviikko.fi/kaikki_uutiset/jolla+palkittiin+teknologiapalkinnolla+avoimen+koodin+edistamisesta/a940333
Tomi says:
Yandex’s alternative Android store helps Jolla’s Sailfish OS get off the ground
http://gigaom.com/2013/11/13/yandexs-alternative-android-store-helps-jollas-sailfish-os-get-off-the-ground/
Jolla wants developers to write native apps for its Sailfish OS, but it looks like the platform’s initial boost will need to come from its compatibility with Android.
But, given that Google’s Play Store is out of the question, how are users supposed to get their hands on those apps? Now we know the answer to that one: On Wednesday, Finland’s Jolla announced a partnership with Russian web giant Yandex, through which the Yandex.Store app marketplace– usually found on obscure, non-Google Android devices — will come preinstalled on Jolla smartphones.
The deal means the Jolla smartphone will be able to launch later this year with popular apps such as Facebook, Twitter, Skype, Foursquare and so on
Yandex.Store already offering around 85,000 apps
Incidentally, Jolla phones will also carry Nokia’s Here maps
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Tomi Engdahl says:
First Jolla smartphone from former Nokia staff goes on sale
http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/2309655/first-jolla-smartphone-from-former-nokia-staff-goes-on-sale
Jolla, the smartphone startup founded by ex-Nokia engineers, is set to sell its first handsets from today in Finland, with availability in other countries to follow.
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.
The device sports a fairly mid-range specification, with a 1.4GHz dual-core Qualcomm processor, 1GB memory and 16GB of flash storage, plus a 4.5in 960×540 in-plane switching (IPS) touchscreen with Gorilla 2 Glass.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Video: tässä on Jolla – näin Android-sovellus toimii
http://www.tietoviikko.fi/kaikki_uutiset/video+tassa+on+jolla++nain+androidsovellus+toimii/a950612
Tomi Engdahl says:
Jolla: Ex-Nokia employees launch smartphone
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25120727
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 company has paired with a major Finnish network, and hopes to set up a similar deal with a UK operator.
Just 450 Jolla phones will be available at launch on Wednesday evening, with the majority going to customers who have pre-ordered the device.
Co-founder Marc Dillon told the BBC the company was in the process of ramping up manufacturing.
He said the phone’s ethos was to provide a more “open” approach to how people used their mobiles, a contrast to the relatively closed systems used on the iPhone and, to a lesser extent, Android devices.
“There’s different opportunities for people to get apps form different places, different stores,” he said.
“We’ve created a world-class platform. Users will be getting more choice.”
Analyst Geoff Blaber, from CCS, said while it might seem Jolla was taking on an impossibly large challenge by trying to muscle in, its strategy could pay off.
“It’s easy to characterise this as David v Goliath,” he told the BBC. “But the fact is if Jolla can maintain a competitive cost base, there is already an enthusiast base seeking this product. It could be successful.”
Tomi says:
Sailfish Can Officially Be Installed To Android Devices
http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/13/11/30/221208/sailfish-can-officially-be-installed-to-android-devices
“is Jolla going to let individual users to install the Sailfish operating system on the Android devices that they already have? Pienimäki answers: ‘That is the plan. We are on device business and OS business. It is fairly easy to install the OS on Android devices’. He says that especially in China, changing firmwares is a mainstream thing.”
Tomi Engdahl says:
Jolla CEO: You will soon be able turn your Android device into a Sailfish device
http://www.talouselama.fi/nakoislehti/jolla+ceo+you+will+soon+be+able+turn+your+android+device+into+a+sailfish+device/a2218386
Talouselämä Magazine met Jolla CEO Tomi Pienimäki and asked a puzzling question. If Jolla truly is compatible with Android devices, is Jolla going to let individual users to install the Sailfish operating system on the Android devices that they already have?
”That is the plan. We are on device business and OS business. It is fairly easy to install the OS on Android devices”, Pienimäki says.
”There is no such culture in these parts of the world [Finland], but there are people that are installing new operating systems on their devices. In China it is mainstream. About half of the smartphone buyers are upgrading their older or cheaper devices with a better version of Android.”
Tomi Engdahl says:
So, Jolla, what are you working on now? ‘There are things that the world hasn’t seen yet’
http://www.zdnet.com/so-jolla-what-are-you-working-on-now-there-are-things-that-the-world-hasnt-seen-yet-7000023736/
ummary: Jolla’s handset release this week is the culmination of two years’ hard graft. How did the Finnish startup manage it, and what’s it working on next?
Tomi Engdahl says:
The 18 Best Startups That Launched In 2013
http://www.businessinsider.com/best-startups-of-year-2013-12#jolla-spun-out-of-nokia-to-win-over-the-hearts-of-finnish-smartphone-users-3
Jolla spun out of Nokia to win over the hearts of Finnish smartphone users.
Megan Rose Dickey/Business Insider
Jolla, the new Finnish-based smartphone company that spun out of Nokia, started selling its flagship phone in Helsinki late last month.
Back in June, Jolla secured its first mobile phone carrier. Finland’s third largest smartphone carrier, DNA, will be the first to sell Jolla’s (pronounced Yo-Lah) flagship phone.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Got a one-of-a-kind N9? Get ready to adopt Meego’s baby Sailfish
New lease of life for Nokia’s cult classic
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/12/11/sailfish_sails_onto_n9/
The only Meego phone Nokia ever released, the now two-year-old N9, has been given a new lease of life today. Owners can now install the new Meego descendent Sailfish alongside the original OS.
With Nokia closing the Meego App Store at the end of the year, owners should be able to enjoy the more up-to-date Sailfish apps, as well as being able to run Android apps via a runtime.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Jolla’s other half can support keyboard, FM transmitter and much more thanks to I2C
http://wpsailors.com/2013/09/20/jollas-two-halves-can-support-keyboard-fm-transmitter-and-much-more-thanks-to-i2c/
Other half connectors will be wireless NFC, power out/in and L2C connector. L2C was the surprise here that we knew nothing about and is the special sauce that makes the other half. L2C stands for Inter-Integrated Circuit, and it’s used to connect low-speed peripherals to motherboard.
Here’s example Texas Instruments QWERTY-capable I2C keyboard controller or FM transmitter module.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Column: Nobody buy Jolla phone with reason
IT people and nerds earnestly expect Jolla phone has finally gone on sale . Now you should just come up with to whom the phone is intended , write Petteri Järvinen .
Finland is back on track , because we have another domestic phone manufacturer. However, devices are manufactured in China , but at least the brand and know-how are Finns. The name is a beautiful, almost poetic : Jolla.
Jolla operating system is the Sailfish , or sailfish. Family tree has terms Maemo , Moblin , MeeGo , Mer, and Qt.
As for its names suggests, Jolla is not intended to a standard telephone user. It is intended for people who know what they are buying.
They are willing to pay 399 euro phone that is running an ad that the beta stage (in Finnish words: not yet complete ), and which may be only a few applications. It is a phone that no one will buy common sense , but even more emotion.
Jolla phone refutes the claim that the engineers are not comfortable feelings. This is in fact just the phone that Nokia had to do.
Many feel that the decision for Nokia to change to Windows Phone platform was a bad mistake . Part of the engineers , resigned and founded Jolla to continue the development of MeeGo . Their efforts are now visible to all. This , if anything, is feeling satiated moment .
Jolla shows how much the phone market has evolved in recent years . It is no longer enough to know how to make a good phone . The smartphone has a lot more , a whole microcosm . The phone is ubiquitous operating system, upon which the day’s work and leisure routines to rotate.
It is questionable whether it would be able to create a Nokia MeeGo ecosystem upon the fourth , when the market was already on Google’s Android , Apple’s iOS and Microsoft’s Windows . Canadian Blackberry was not able to , even though it was very popular a few years ago .
For a small Jolla the situation is even more difficult . It has come up with something else in order to keep it on surface.
One way is to invest in information security. Yankee spy agency NSA has access to the American mobile companies in the cloud, so the Finnish culture and the EU area private cloud are clear competitive advantages. But they are hardly alone are sufficient.
Another option is to profile a geek phone.
The real point is , however, Sailfish operating system multitasking. Unfortunately, it is also the Achilles heel because of battery consumption.
Jolla, the best strategy is to license the platform to other Sailfish , most likely from Asian or South American device manufacturers and operators. After that is their problem to figure out how to raise the profile of the phone stand out from the rest.
In the best case Jolla own phones are margin products , but the Finnish mobile expertise in engineering and sail sailfish to the world.
Source:
Kolumni: Kukaan ei osta Jolla-puhelinta järjellä
Petteri Järvinen
http://www.hs.fi/tekniikka/Kolumni+Kukaan+ei+osta+Jolla-puhelinta+j%C3%A4rjell%C3%A4/a1387248207459
Tomi Engdahl says:
Jolla Sailfish phone on sale in UK and Europe for £331
http://crave.cnet.co.uk/mobiles/jolla-sailfish-phone-on-sale-in-uk-and-europe-for-331-50013067/
Bored of Android or the iPhone? The latest upstart smart phone system, Sailfish, born within Nokia, is on sale now in the shape of the case-swapping Jolla phone.
The Jolla phone is available to buy now for €399 — about £331 — in Europe, Switzerland and Norway. The new 4G phone runs Sailfish OS, which started life as MeeGo, software that was briefly considered as the future of Nokia before the Finnish phone-flingers settled on Microsoft’s Windows Phone instead.
The phone has previously been available for pre-order in Finland and was dispatched this month to the select few phone fans who got in early. When you order from the new online shop, your Jolla phone arrives in two to four weeks.
Jolla also plans to open a website at together.jolla.com — at the time of writing it’s not live yet — where phone fans can discuss and vote on which features they would like to see in Jolla, as well as report problems.
Mobile trends for 2014 « Tomi Engdahl’s ePanorama blog says:
[...] push on some smaller mobile platforms as alternative to the big three (Google, Apple, Microsoft). Jolla is pushing Sailfish OS phones that can run Android applications and also pushing possibility to [...]
Tomi Engdahl says:
Jolla overtook iPhoneon DNA Christmas sale in Finland
The 2013 Christmas sales were at the forefront of low-cost smartphones. In December, sales had reached Jolla DNA shops in your price range in the best-selling smartphone , bypassing the supply difficulties suffered an iPhone. Sonera’s statistics, while the iPhone was the top position.
“Christmas sales as a whole was the previous year. The mobile phone has traditionally been a popular Christmas gift”
Apple’s hardware sales were slowed down by device availability problems.
Source:
http://www.tietoviikko.fi/uutisia/jolla+ohitti+dnan+joulumyynnissa+iphonen/a957159
Tomi Engdahl says:
Jolla the smart phone company announced Friday that it Sailfish operating system is released 1.0 version. The platform is thus ready for the global distribution.
Jolla believes that Android devices have the great opportunity, because they are already close to a billion of the world. “Many of them looking for new user experiences that are fresh, would their existing equipment,” Chairman Antti Saarnio says the release.
Last year, China alone, about 100 million devices installed in the new operating system after the purchase.
The company also announced its own Sailfish interface trigger on Android devices. It allows Sailfish to replicate the experience of the Android operating system, a functioning phone.
Source: Tietoviikko
http://www.tietoviikko.fi/kaikki_uutiset/jolla+vie+alustansa+androidlaitteisiin++quotmoni+etsii+uusia+kayttajakokemuksiaquot/a969385
Tomi Engdahl says:
Jolla smart phone company and the security company F-Secure reported on Friday cooperation. Jolla user will receive in the near future F-Secure Younited-cloud storage service on their phones.
“Privacy and content security is an important issue for both of us, which makes co-operation, as well as natural and fruitful. Moreover, each of the firms are from Finland, which is a security and privacy protection of the leading country,” said Jolla President and CEO Tomi Pienimäki on press release.
Source: Tietoviikko
http://www.tietoviikko.fi/kaikki_uutiset/jolla+ja+fsecure+aloittavat+yhteistyon/a969369
Tomi Engdahl says:
[Release notes] Software version 1.0.7.16, Saapunki
https://together.jolla.com/question/45064/release-notes-software-version-10716-saapunki/
Saapunki is the combined software update (update6 + update7) for SailfishOS
4G support for all users (requires 4G SIM) [Settings > System > Mobile network > Network mode = Prefer 4G]
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Tomi Engdahl says:
Which has received a three-year € 30 million start-up funding. The company’s marketing director Sami Pienimäki believes that it is a European record.
Sailfish operating system for smartphones developed by Finnish who has received a three-year period angel investments totaling approximately EUR 22 million. The company’s start-up funding to a total of about 30 million, when including the funding granted by Tekes.
Jolla was created when Nokia was driving down the MeeGo operating system development in February 2011. MeeGoon believe the development team continued the development of the platform on their own.
“We were very excited and we decided to take development forward at all costs. In a few years the company developed its own smart phone and MeeGoon-based operating system, which is named sailfish. Phone was releeased in Finland last November, in collaboration with the DNA. Product side, however, has been relatively quiet. Pienimäki says that the phone has gone to sell a “reasonable amount”, but that the biggest gains could come to the operating system.
“100-person team was able to pull such a project through, when is the right bet on”
“We are now at the point that the Software will publish a global scale.”
Pienimäki believes that the new operating system is the order of the market on many levels.
“Consumers hakevaat constantly developing new user experiences, and the two large supplier of chuck live operators, in turn, want to widen the portfolio. Equipment manufacturers aggressively seeking new means of differentiation and separation. The governments and big companies are waking up to information security and it is best to open Platform,”
Sources:
http://www.kauppalehti.fi/omayritys/jollan+saama+rahoitus+euroopan+ennatys/201410704974
http://www.tivi.fi/kaikki_uutiset/kl+jollaan+sijoitettu+jo+30+miljoonaa++yhtio+uskoo+sailfishin+mahdollisuuksiin/a1023713
Tomi Engdahl says:
Finnish phone manufacturer to start with the new tablet devices pre-sale Indiegogo, Inc.-a number of financial website.
Jolla intends to develop a tablet that uses Sailfish operating system
The first pre-orders are promised in June: Indiegogo campaign aims to sell a total of 2000 devices.
The first millennium sponsor Jolla Tablet devices pre-tax price of 189 dollars or 152 euros in the price, the rest of the price is $ 10 more expensive.
Financial campaign is open to EU countries, Norway, Switzerland, the United States, India, China, Hong Kong and the Russian residents.
The tablet is 7.85-inch display with a resolution 2048×1539, or 326 ppi (pixels per inch)
Dillon, the tablet will be able to use the Sailfish operating system, multitasking capabilities even better than the phone.
- We can use a larger screen. The display can be divided into different uses
Jolla has updated the phone almost every month, and Dillon, the pace will continue. Tablet-from the development of new ideas is going to be possible, also add to the phone.
Source: digitoday.fi/vimpaimet/2014/11/19/jolla-kehittaa-tablet-laitteen/201415968/66
Tomi Engdahl says:
Jolla Crowdfunds Its First Tablet
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/14/11/19/1343250/jolla-crowdfunds-its-first-tablet
Jolla is another rising star in the tech world, having recently expanded its smartphone sales into more countries across the globe. Jolla’s Sailfish OS is based on the Linux kernel, and considered by many to be a direct successor to Nokia and Intel’s MeeGo and the N9 mobile phone. Its software is based on the open-sourced components of MeeGo. Now, the company is ready to start production of its first tablet. They’re crowdfunding it, and they blew past their $380,000 goal in about two hours.
Judging by its size, we can see this will rival the iPad Mini the new Nokia N1.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Jolla Tablet – world’s first crowdsourced tablet
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/jolla-tablet-world-s-first-crowdsourced-tablet
Be a part of making the world’s first people powered tablet, running Sailfish OS 2.0.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Jolla Tablet
http://jolla.com/fi/tablet/
Jolla Tablet – world’s first crowdsourced tablet
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/jolla-tablet-world-s-first-crowdsourced-tablet
Tomi Engdahl says:
Analysts to DT: Jolla left with two choices – one very bad
Jolla success does not wake up the great trust Digitoday interviewed by the technology sector of the analysts involved. They look a little Finnish phone manufacturer in two directions: either to sell its Asian competitors to the company or just the end will come against sooner or later.
Kantar Worldpanelin Carolina Milanesi keep Huawei and Lenovo as potential buyers of Jolla.
Nokia, previously followed Richard Windsor says the attitude towards the beginning of a critical dinghy. He calculated that their own to get Jolla should be sold 250 000 units per year 399 euros. Actual sales of the company’s CEO states that “tens of thousands” of phones.
On this basis, the company can be expected to be heavily loss-making, Windsor evaluated.
Source: http://www.tivi.fi/kaikki_uutiset/analyytikot+dtlle+jollalla+jaljella+kaksi+vaihtoehtoa++toinen+erittain+huono/a1034521
Tomi Engdahl says:
Jolla announced plans for a new platform: this is the “Sailfish Secure”
Jolla said on Monday in Barcelona MWC event planning to the new, open and secure mobile platform. Sailfish Sailfish Secure is based on the previous platform. It has been developed in co-operation with SSH Communications Security.
The secure platform release is based on the lack of alternative European platform.
It gives Jollalle competitive advantage, the company expects a statement.
Source: http://www.tivi.fi/Kaikki_uutiset/2015-03-02/Jolla-julkisti-uuden-alustan-suunnitelmat-t%C3%A4llainen-on-%E2%80%9DSailfish-Secure%E2%80%9D-3216559.html
Tomi Engdahl says:
Jolla’s Sailfish OS reaches 2.0, embraces Intel, licensing
http://www.slashgear.com/jollas-sailfish-os-reaches-2-0-embraces-intel-licensing-02371529/
There comes a time when every child grows up and starts to leave home for his or her own adventures. For Jolla’s own Sailfish OS, that time has come. In preparation for the upcoming launch of the successfully crowdfunded Jolla Tablet next quarter, the Finnish startup is announcing the next major version of Sailfish 2.0. While details on what’s new for end users are still quite slim, the release is meant more to entice partners, particularly of the hardware kind, to join in on the fun
Sailfish OS was primarily designed to be used on Jolla’s ARM-powered first smartphone.
That tablet is expected to ship in the next few months, but while things are still cooking on the hardware front, Jolla apparently has a ready-made software meal. Sailfish OS 2.0, as it is dubbed, is the next evolution of the platform. It scales the OS from smartphones to tablets, from ARM to Intel. In particular, it is adding support for the Intel Atom x3 processor platform. This is Intel’s first processor to combine a 64-bit Atom CPU with 3G or 4G connectivity. In short, this opens the floodgates for more Sailfish-compatible devices in the future.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Jolla got MWC’s the best tablet Award
The prize is awarded mobile technology association GSMA.
Source: http://www.tivi.fi/Kaikki_uutiset/2015-03-05/Jollalle-MWCn-parhaan-tabletin-palkinto-3216865.html