MeeGo Startup Jolla Signs Phone Deal 63
chill writes "Mobile company Jolla, which is continuing development of Linux-based mobile OS Meego, signed its first sales deal today, with D.Phone, China's largest smartphone retail chain. Jolla has not released details about its first product, which is expected to be revealed later this year. The company has not yet received access to any Nokia patents."
Except that it makes the phone *worse* that way (Score:2, Informative)
When it is made for the First World markets first - the quality does not decrease and it generally does well. These phones are made with the First World audience in mind.
When it is made with the Third World in mind, quality suffers. What the First World gets is largely a defective product with no thought or attention to the First World user aside from the poor quality translation of a manual in GB2312.
Re:It makes the same "no First World" mistake as N (Score:5, Informative)
Apparently you have forgotten about how the N900 and N9 have sold, where the latter outdid the whorephones combined. Salespeople were complaining that they couldn't move the Lumia devices while they could move plenty of N9's if they could stock them
Reality Check, please. (Score:2, Informative)
... Has there really been anything that has started in China and made it big in Europe/North America?
OK, How about silk, paper, gun powder, fireworks and bazillion other things chinese had ages before west heard of them?