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First Jolla device revealed. Click here.

The power of Meego

+400'000 Android apps for MeeGo Harmattan?

Triple boot on Nokia N9

Nokia N900 Quad booting

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Jolla News

Jolla Mobiles Comes Out Of Hiding: Launches Sailfish

Official site: http://jolla.com/

Sailfish homepage: https://sailfishos.org/wiki/Main_Page

UI demo videos on Nokia N950
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c_BqnR_vAM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHn3q...ature=youtu.be
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtEbOGuxuig

Jolla Aims to be Alternative to Android: The Wall Street Journal spoke with Jolla’s co-founder Sami Pienimaki about the start-up’s expansion plans.

Engadget's hands-on with Jolla's Sailfish OS (video)

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Interview 1: Jussi Hurmola, the CEO of JollaMobile. Read here

Interview 2: Latest interview With Jolla Mobile CEO Jussi Hurmola. Read here.

Jolla on Twitter

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Jolla: A New Smartphone Startup In A Crowded Market

Made up of former Nokia employees, Jolla was a product of Nokia’s “Bridge” – the project to relocate employees whose roles at Nokia were eliminated by the decision to move away from MeeGo and from Symbian as a smartphone OS. Nokia has even opened up a number of patents to assist Jolla’s development of a recognizably Nokia-heritaged fork to the long-running mobile Linux project.

(UPDATE: It turns out that the Finnish source of this information may have assumed too much: Nokia has clarified that they were not transferring patents to this or any other Bridge beneficiaries. They may be licensing them, but are not commenting on that. So, it seems like that Jolla MeeGo will build largely on “stock” MeeGo. How much this will impact the user experience is at this point an open question – a lot would depend on the UI experience, which was always going to be Jolla’s own creation.)

The mainstream of that project is currently incarnated as Tizen, which released the source code for its 1.0 iteration – “Larkspur” at the end of April, along with a software development kit. However, Tizen has yet to appear on any purpose-built phones.

Jolla certainly has the MeeGo props – CEO Jussi Hurmola was Director of MeeGo Software integration and releases at Nokia, and COO Marc Dillon spend six years in Nokia, latterly as a principal engineer for Maemo and its successor Meego (via the hybrid Harmattan project). However, small companies and the huge infrastructures and economies of handset manufacture have often not been a happy combination. Project Openmoko, which was dedicated to producing a truly open Smartphone OS, backed out of phone hardware after the release of the FreeRunner in 2009.

Not only is phone hardware complex to make, but one is up against huge producers on the production side, and carriers on the distribution side who are already locked in a best-enemies relationship with those huge producers. It’s very hard for a small producer – unless it has the support of a serious corporations either through ownership or sponsorship – to make progress.

The other problem is that “MeeGo” covers a multitude of sins – it was envisioned as an operating system for netbooks, tablets, embedded devices and phones, each with their own usage patterns. Although the N9′s status as an open (for certain values of open) handset was important to many, the things which made people actually sigh when they used it were the industrial design – which has now found a home in a somewhat mediated form in the high-end Nokia Lumia Windows Phones – and the user interface.

There is little to say about the industrial design of phones that do not yet exist – Jolla wants to release two phones before the end of the year, one for the general audience and one for “the technical audience” – that is, tinkerers. But the N9′s user interface is Nokia proprietary, so it is reasonable to assume that, whatever UI finds it way onto Jolla devices, it will not be the Nokia UI.

UPDATE: Jolla have responded, comfirming that the new UI will be Jolla-developed:



"Yes, you are right – Jolla is working on its own UI. We aim to bring something new and exciting to the user experience. We are planning to release more information about the UI together with our device launch later this year".

This is intriguing – both WebOS and Windows Phone have sought to subvert the basic post-iPhone UI model, and the market is the better for it.

Jolla promises MeeGo will live on, plans new smartphone to reward the faithful

More than a few N9 aficionados felt their hearts sink when important MeeGo team members left Nokia this week, putting the fate of the entire swipe-friendly platform in doubt. Recently-founded Jolla was clearly watching, as it confirmed just in the nick of time that it's planning to carry the torch further. The Finnish startup, which includes important members of the N9 team as well as veterans of the unofficial MeeGo community, not only plans to iterate on MeeGo but to build its very own smartphone with that foundation. Those attached to Nokia's interpretation of MeeGo will have to adapt to a few changes: Jolla's work is based on the related, partly HTML5-driven Mer Project and will have a "brand new UI" to go with the new hardware. It won't be a literal N10 as a result, but we'll find out just what direction Jolla is taking soon -- it's been working on the phone since late 2011 with plans to show its work later this year. As long as some of the N9's spirit carries forward, we have a hunch that a lot of fans won't mind the absence of a Nokia badge.

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Jolla Mobile to announce first MeeGo phone this year, launch two in 2013?

Jolla Mobile, the company that was founded by Nokia's former MeeGo strike-force, has been somewhat open to the media these days, revealing some interesting bits of info regarding its eventual upcoming devices.

In an interview with Tech Crunch, Jolla's CEO, Jussi Hurmola, has talked about the company's plans to bring not one, but two MeeGo smartphones to the market next year. One of those smartphones would be targeted to the mass-market, general consumer, while the other will be designed with devs and hackers in mind. That really seems like an ambitious effort, considering that Jolla currently has no more than 50 employees, although they do claim they are hiring "aggressively".

Interestingly, in a later interview with IntoMobile, CEO Hurmola almost denied to have referred to two devices. Apparently, what he had meant was that they want their devices to appeal mainly to the general consumer, but they want devs to enjoy them as well, that's why there will probably be a "developer mode" or something like that. However, that doesn't mean that we won't see devices soon. Thankfully, the CEO and co-founder of Jolla has said that the company's goal is to announce its first smartphone later this year. Launch timing, however, has not been announced.

Jolla Mobile has been founded and is being established as part of Nokia's Bridge plan, which aims to help employees leaving Nokia start up new businesses. Because of that, Jolla won't be completely alone in this crazy mobile world, but we don't really think Nokia will spend too much time babysitting Jolla. After all, Espoo is having more than enough troubles itself at the moment.

Ex-Nokia guys start mystery company to build Linux-based phones

A six-man group of open-source diehards from Nokia have teamed up to form Jolla Mobile, a company focused on building phones using the Linux-based MeeGo operating system.

Rather, MeeGo will be a sort of jumping-off point. On its Twitter page, Jolla advisor and former MeeGo product manager Jukka Eklund wrote, “We are developing [our] own smartphone OS based on ‪MeeGo… our own UI… for new products.”

Jolla will soon be making announcements about its version of MeeGo as well as a brand new smartphone it’s bringing to market.

The company so far is composed of “N9 core professionals and MeeGo community alumni,” the page reads. While N9 folks will be at the helm, there is no intention to offer support for Nokia’s N9 smartphones — more on those later.

Leading the team is Marc Dillon, the principal engineer behind MeeGo at Nokia up until May 2012, according the group’s LinkedIn page, which has been disappearing and reappearing all morning.

Jolla also employs Marko Saukko, formerly a core maintainer for the Mer Project, a Linux distro for mobile devices. A few other MeeGo engineers and hardcore Linux enthusiasts round out the team.

MeeGo was built by a few of these guys along with some folks from Intel. However, the project clearly stagnated within Nokia, and the FOSSies behind it have decided to continue fighting the good (open-source mobile) fight elsewhere.

Eklund said that Jolla intends for its OS and apps — as well as possibly the device itself — to be open-sourced.

Eklund also revealed Jolla is making good use of Nokia’s Qt SDK, which can be used to create apps for Nokia N9 smartphones as well as desktop environments.

More details about Jolla’s OS and product should be available within the next few weeks, Eklund said. The company’s first release is still in development.

Although the startup is composed of former Nokia employees, Jolla is said to be working with Nokia on hiring issues so as to avoid triggering non-compete clauses in employees’ contracts.

Nokia’s N9 was announced just over one year ago. At that time, it was clear to our staff that the MeeGo-powered device was a side project for Nokia, which was primarily investing in a long-term relationship with Windows Phone. Because of that, we recognized the N9 was doomed from the start. In fact, the N9 was never released in North America at all.

Jolla Mobile was founded in the fall of 2011 and is based in Finland. The startup has taken funding from “international and domestic private investors.”

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Finland's Jolla Will Be The Ferrari Of The Smartphone World - Forbes

You have to hand it to the former Nokia employees who decided to set up a company to build the Linux smartphone they believe the market wants. Naming your company ‘dinghy’ as you leave Nokia to enter the start-up world to produce a new smartphone is very Finnish.

But the company known as Jolla is more than a lifeboat. Jussi Hurmola and Marc Dillon have gathered together a team of around 50 employees, raised financing for their first handset, sourced and signed contracts with suppliers, and are putting in place everything else required for a modern smartphone.

Their first goal? To sell 100,000 units.

It might not be the nine million pre-orders that the Samsung Galaxy S3 has, but that’s enough to build a company around. After all, Ferrari sell less than ten thousand cars a year, but they’re still regarded as a success, so why not a similar model in the smartphone world?

This is what makes Jolla interesting to me. The smartphone game right now is heavily focussed on the volume side of personal computing, grabbing market share from others, building the biggest app store, and dominating the competition.

That’s one way to be a successful business, but there is another. As Ferrari show, it’s not always about volume, it’s about having something desirable and relatively unique. If your product brings in more money than it costs, and you can develop the next models with that surplus, then you have a sustainable business.

With some decent strategy and a fair wind, I can see Jolla emerging as one of the leading ’boutique’ smartphone manufacturers in 2013. It’s unlikely to make any significant in-roads in terms of market share, the price will be higher than similarly specced handsets due to the relatively low volumes Jolla will sell, and it’s likely that the first handsets will be purchased sim-free in the West as opposed to being widely available through a network contract.

That’s fine though – if there is demand for a Finnish designed Linux smartphone and Jolla can deliver that, I see no reason why they can’t make this a success.

There is a proven market out there for this style of hackable and open sourced phone. Nokia’s MeeGo powered N9 has a lot of love in tech circles, and many are convinced that the lack of sales figures coming out of Nokia are more about protecting the aura around the Lumia Windows Phone range, rather than a poorly performing handset. Given their work in Nokia with the MeeGo platform, Jolla will have a good idea how large this market is, and will know what is attractive in terms of hardware, software, and support.

It might not get a huge amount of third party support, but if all the basics are there in terms of core applications, if the platform is open enough that a handful of dedicated HTML5 and Qt developers can fill in the gaps, and if they can keep a tight control on all the costs involved, then Jolla could carve out a very nice segment of the market.

Nokia N9 plays nice with Firefox OS, video inside

Here goes another case of Nokia’s already iconic N9 MeeGo smartphone getting some developer love. Barely a day after it got treated to a bag of jelly beans, a video of the Nokia N9 running Firefox OS has surfaced.


The feat has been accomplished by a Russian developer via the Boot 2 Gecko method. The Nokia N9 on the video has been transformed into a dual-boot handset, running the Firefox Engine and featuring HTML 5 desktop.

Video: Firefox OS, B2G running on Nokia N9

Nokia N9 to Receive Android 4.1 Jelly Bean ROM

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Latest interview: Jussi Hurmola: The market wants an alternative to iOS and Android

Jolla Mobile nearly ready to release first MeeGo smartphone

Finnish start-up Jolla: We will build new 200 million euro mobile alliance based in Hong Kong

Jolla Official Press Release October 2nd, 2012

Jolla’s MeeGo revival plans shape up with $260m ecosystem alliance

Jolla Confirms It Will Unveil Sailfish MeeGo-Based OS Next Month

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MeeGo apps database

• Firefox
• Filebox
• Battery Usage
• Qt Facelock

Run Android apps/games on Nokia N9/N950/N900: More here

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Saera: Siri clone for Maemo 5

Saera for N9 - under development [PREVIEW]

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HOW TO:

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How to enable developer mode on MeeGo:

Settings > Security > Developer mode -> ON
It will download some packages automatically (~2 MB) and the phone will go for an automatic reboot.

You will find the 'Terminal' icon after the restart.

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Nokia N9 terminal - YouTube

To gain root privileges,
$ devel-su
It will ask for password.
Default password: rootme

You can change the default root password anytime later using the following command.

#passwd