wraggster
November 29th, 2013, 20:16
A team of ex-Nokia employees has released the first handset running on a new smartphone platform (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25120727). 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.
http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/13/11/28/2310220/jolla-ex-nokia-employees-launch-smartphone-meego-resurrected
http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/13/11/28/2310220/jolla-ex-nokia-employees-launch-smartphone-meego-resurrected