Bouygues Telecom launches a new smartphone under his name

Last April, Bouygues Telecom surprised by reviving the principle of the mobile operator branded. We had seen this type of terminal to multiply a few years ago, especially on the side of Orange and so in BouyguesTel with ZTE.

But the approach had been more or less abandoned facing the hegemony of manufacturers like Apple and Samsung. However, Bouygues Telecom considers it a stab, particularly to democratize uses.

Prices without trimming specifications

"We want to enable all of our customers to access the richness of mobile services, by giving them access to high quality priced terminals reduced. We have a great ambition for the range of phones Bouygues Telecom, which is called upon to expand and renew regularly to accompany the evolution of the use of our customers,"explained Olivier Roussat, Director General of Bouygues Telecom.

The objective is to offer terminals to price broke but with standard functions for a smartphone and also to reduce the dependence of the operator against two or three manufacturers who monopolize more than 70% of the market...

Thus, after 401 BS and BS 471, the operator launched BS 351 according to our colleagues Pz10.com. This smartphone 3 G + is equipped with a TFT screen 3.5 inches, a processor Qualcomm 7225 clocked at 1 GHz, 512 MB RAM, 2 GB of memory storage, a 3.2 megapixel camera, all under Android 4.1 APN.

Faithful to the principle, this terminal is sold at price floor: 109 naked euros or 9.90 euro with any package of the operator.

According to our information, Bouygues Telecom terminals manufactured by ZTE, Huawei and Alcatel OneTouch.

 

Jolla presents its first smartphone under Sailfish

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.