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12-20-2013, 10:35 PM
Jolla expands Sailfish smartphone sales in Europe
Finnish smartphone company Jolla is **w selling the first phone to ship with Sailfish OS throughout the European Union, Switzerland, and **rway. Up until **w it had only been available to customers in Finland (http://liliputing.com/2013/11/jollas-first-sailfish-os-phones-launch-**vember-27th-finland.html).
Jolla’s Sailfish software is based on the open source MeeGo operating system that had been developed, and then largely abandoned by **kia, Intel, and others. Sailfish keeps the dream alive — but it also adds support for Android apps, which means that even though there’s **t a huge ecosystem of third party apps designed to run on Sailfish, you can still run thousands of existing mobile apps on a Jolla phone.
http://cdn.liliputing.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/jolla-phone_01.jpg (http://redirectingat.com?id=32X105&xs=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fshop.jolla.com%2F&sref=rss)
The handset sells for*€399, or about $545 US. That buys you a phone with a 4.5 inch, 960 x 540 pixel display, a 1.4 GHz Qualcomm dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM and 16GB of storage. It has an 8MP rear camera and 2MP front camera, and supports GSM, 3G, and 4G LTE networks.
The specs are decent, but **t spectacular — but it’s the software that makes the phone special. Android and iOS pretty much dominate the smartphone space these days, with BlackBerry and ******* Phone software bringing up the rear. A number of companies are trying to show that there’s room for more options — such as Ubuntu, Firefox OS, Tizen, or Sailfish.
Just bringing a phone to market and distributing it throughout much of a continent is a pretty big deal — it’s something Ubuntu attempted to raise funds for, and failed (http://liliputing.com/2013/08/ubuntu-edge-fails-to-hit-32-million-goal-ubuntu-os-for-phones-still-on-the-way.html). While it’s **t clear if Sailfish will become the next Android, at least it looks like it Jolla might have what it takes to make sure it’s **t a**ther GridOS (http://liliputing.com/2011/08/fusion-garage-unveils-the-grid-10-tablet-makes-android-look-hard.html).
via CNET (http://redirectingat.com?id=32X105&xs=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcrave.cnet.co.uk%2Fmobiles%2Fjoll a-sailfish-phone-on-sale-in-uk-and-europe-for-331-50013067%2F&sref=rss)
Jolla expands Sailfish smartphone sales in Europe (http://liliputing.com/2013/12/jolla-expands-sailfish-smartphone-sales-in-europe.html) is a post from: Liliputing (http://liliputing.com)
Finnish smartphone company Jolla is **w selling the first phone to ship with Sailfish OS throughout the European Union, Switzerland, and **rway. Up until **w it had only been available to customers in Finland (http://liliputing.com/2013/11/jollas-first-sailfish-os-phones-launch-**vember-27th-finland.html).
Jolla’s Sailfish software is based on the open source MeeGo operating system that had been developed, and then largely abandoned by **kia, Intel, and others. Sailfish keeps the dream alive — but it also adds support for Android apps, which means that even though there’s **t a huge ecosystem of third party apps designed to run on Sailfish, you can still run thousands of existing mobile apps on a Jolla phone.
http://cdn.liliputing.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/jolla-phone_01.jpg (http://redirectingat.com?id=32X105&xs=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fshop.jolla.com%2F&sref=rss)
The handset sells for*€399, or about $545 US. That buys you a phone with a 4.5 inch, 960 x 540 pixel display, a 1.4 GHz Qualcomm dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM and 16GB of storage. It has an 8MP rear camera and 2MP front camera, and supports GSM, 3G, and 4G LTE networks.
The specs are decent, but **t spectacular — but it’s the software that makes the phone special. Android and iOS pretty much dominate the smartphone space these days, with BlackBerry and ******* Phone software bringing up the rear. A number of companies are trying to show that there’s room for more options — such as Ubuntu, Firefox OS, Tizen, or Sailfish.
Just bringing a phone to market and distributing it throughout much of a continent is a pretty big deal — it’s something Ubuntu attempted to raise funds for, and failed (http://liliputing.com/2013/08/ubuntu-edge-fails-to-hit-32-million-goal-ubuntu-os-for-phones-still-on-the-way.html). While it’s **t clear if Sailfish will become the next Android, at least it looks like it Jolla might have what it takes to make sure it’s **t a**ther GridOS (http://liliputing.com/2011/08/fusion-garage-unveils-the-grid-10-tablet-makes-android-look-hard.html).
via CNET (http://redirectingat.com?id=32X105&xs=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcrave.cnet.co.uk%2Fmobiles%2Fjoll a-sailfish-phone-on-sale-in-uk-and-europe-for-331-50013067%2F&sref=rss)
Jolla expands Sailfish smartphone sales in Europe (http://liliputing.com/2013/12/jolla-expands-sailfish-smartphone-sales-in-europe.html) is a post from: Liliputing (http://liliputing.com)