Jolla: Ex-Nokia Employees Launch Smartphone (MeeGo Resurrected) 141
mrspoonsi writes "A team of ex-Nokia employees has released the first handset running on a new smartphone platform. The Jolla phone — pronounced Yol-la — is powered by open-source operating system Sailfish, but can run most apps designed for Google's Android platform. The platform — originally called MeeGo — was developed by Nokia, but dumped in 2011 in favour of the company adopting the Windows Phone system. Nokia released just one handset running the software, the N9-00. Antti Saarnio, chairman and co-founder of Jolla, told the BBC in May that MeeGo — now called Sailfish — had not been given enough chance to succeed."
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Re:*Most* Android apps (Score:0, Informative)
It's not a nokia. What kind of apps do you do, if you can't read that much? I think you shouldn't test them, just say "won't work with Jolla" and i'm good, since i don't think i'd like your apps anyway.
Re:Had a good run with Nokia (Score:5, Informative)
Am sure this new model is an "Android Metoo" phone.
Far fom it! Sailfish has a very distinct feel and it actually goes back a few years, being from the same lineage of Meego and Maemo before it. Check out the main interface features in this short video [youtube.com]. And it's a proper GNU/Linux system (as opposed to Android/Linux), if you're into that sort of thing.
Re:N900, not N9-00 (Score:5, Informative)
We used the hardware numbers (RX- or RM- something), and the code names (Rover, Lankku,