The Jollastart-up, created by Nokia alumni, yesterday introduced its first smartphone, which it had announced a month ago the marketing in the second half. Pre-orders (at 399 euros) are now Open, for an expedition planned late 2013, firstly in European countries.
The device, which features a 4.5-inch and 16 gigabytes of memory, runs on the OS Sailfish, descendant of Meego (and thus GNU/Linux-based), that Nokia dropped after allied with Microsoft in 2011. It is compatible with the Android apps, indicates Jolla.
A third OS open source
Its CEO Tomi Pienimaki implicitly aims its competitors in the bones of mobile telephony in stating that "closed systems and gardens enclosed by walls are not the modern way to build anything inspiring. Unlike the co-creation and open cooperation. If you want to achieve something great and that has meaning, you need to give power to the people. This is not a DIY ('do it yourself') but said ('do it together')."
Jolla premiered in 2011 by Nokia alumni who wanted to make use of the potential of Meego. Jolla announced a distributionagreement with Chinese D.Phone in July 2012.
Marc Dillon, responsible for the development of Sailfish (previously for 11 years at Nokia), considered that the existing operating systems "do not offer much flexibility, a (iOS) is closed completely and the other (Android) promotes mainly its own services", reports AFP. Marc Dillon has indicated that it would be "very happy" if we could sell a million units in a year.
After Android, the Google OS, and Firefox OS, Sailfish will be the third operating system free software to arrive in the area of mobile telephony, where les market shares are to Android and to a lesser extent in iOS.
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