Jolla Smartphone with Sailfish OS released on 23rd September for Rs 16499

A new company(Jolla) from Finland is ready to launch their new smartphone Jolla in India on September  23^rd. Jolla will be availabe exclusively on Snapdeal. Unlike all other smartphones which runs on Android/iOS/Windows this new smartphone runs on their own operating system called Sailfish. So the company is coming with the tagline “We are unlike”!!. They also say that -  The world doesn’t need yet another smartphone – it needs a new way of thinking. That’s why Jolla was born.

Sailfish OS is compatible with Android Apps.

What is Jolla? (a small history touch)

1. After rapidly losing market share in the smartphone market, Nokia decided to create a new Operating System for smartphones based on Linux and the project was named “MeeGo”. 
2. After that Nokia stopped their development of MeeGo and decided to concentrate on working with Windows Phones.
3. Then the team who worked on MeeGo project left Nokia and formed new company called Jolla in Finland.
4. They developed new Operating system based on MeeGo and it is called Sailfish
5. Jolla, in Finnish, is pronounced as 'yolla'.
6. Jolla, the company name, means dinghy (a small agile boat) in Finnish.

The Jolla smartphone features a distinct button-less design, and the Sailfish OS gesture-based user experience. The Sailfish OS's main focus is on multi-tasking without jumping in and out of apps. We can use gestures for navigating from one app to other. It is a single SIM phone. Key features are 4G LTE, 3G, Bluetooth 4.0, GPS with GLONASS, micro SIM slot, micro USB and 3.5mm audio jack.

Price of this smartphone is Rs. 16499. Looks like overpriced for the hardware specifications it is offering. Only new thing is, its Operating System.

The Specifications of Jolla Smartphone are listed below:

1. Processor:  1.4GHz qualcomm snapdragon dual core processor

2. RAM:  1GB

3. Screen Size: 4.5  Inches IPS Display with Gorilla 2 Glass

4. Screen Resolution: qHD, 960x540 Pixels

5. Screen PPI: 244ppi

6. SIM: Single SIM(micro SIM)

7. Battery Capacity: 2100mAh

8. Operating System: Sailfish and compatible with Android Apps

9. Primary Camera: 8MP with LED flash

10. Secondary Camera: 2MP

11. Internal Memory:  16GB (Micro SD card supported upto 32GB)

12. Weight: 141 grams


You can watch Jolla's Official look here...