Friday 27 February 2015

Update on Jolla Tablet campaign

New perk: mapbagrag® Jolla Tablet Case 

Jolla adds a whole new option into their crowd funding campaign currently running on Indiegogo.

Mapbagrag® Jolla Tablet Case is an environment friendly solution to keep your Tablet shielded, including 25% of recycled material, and its 100% recyclable after use.

Thursday 26 February 2015

First Demo video of Jolla Tablet


Looking good - a teaser video by Jolla for next week's MWC with an early version of Sailfish OS 2

"As the device is an early prototype, and the contents in the image used are intended for demonstrating the hardware capabilities and not the upcoming user interface, please keep in mind that what you may see on the tablet screen or even the device itself are not necessarily final."

Thursday 19 February 2015

[News] Jolla's Sailfish OS presented in Russia Expert Council meeting

Sailfish OS & client OS workgroup of Expert Council in Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications in Russia

Moscow, February 18, 2015. — Nikolay Nikiforov, Minister of Telecom and Mass Communications, carried out third meeting of workgroup on client operating systems under Expert Council of Minsvyaz on Development of Information Technologies.

Heads of Jolla presented their independent mobile operating system (OS) Sailfish. Members of the meeting discussed perspective collaboration with heads of Jolla, particularly, use of Sailfish OS in state and private sectors taking into consideration technical, economic and political factors

Sailfish OS system update 11 for early adopters

Jolla community Early Adopters - updating already?

As announced earlier, Jolla owners who have joined the early adopters program are getting the Sailfish OS updates some time in advance. If nothing big is found by these early adopters, the rest of us should get this in a week.

Today was the day for them to start playing with the next Sailfish OS update 11, and start the contributing with discovering possible bugs and reporting them in TJC. Doing It Together in its best!

Update: Early Adopters have located two bugs which are now fixed.

2nd release out for them, and the schedule of the public release:

Tuesday 17 February 2015

[step-by-step guide] Jolla phone unresponsive or laggy

Step-by-step guide: Jolla phone file system, full cleanup

If you're experiencing slow response times, lags and app crashes, or get errors like "Cannot write to file" or "Couldn't install update", these steps will probably help you.

I've followed them all through myself, but I can only confirm them safe on my Jolla. As always, doing stuff as root is in your own responsibility. Be careful!

UPDATE: Part of the process is automated since Sailfish OS 1.1.4.29

Monday 16 February 2015

What's cooking? by Marc Dillon

Updates to the near future

Marc shares his thoughts on some topicals currently on Jolla's table

"We are now putting in all our passion and love to the work – we’re determined!"

Sailors discussed about these in their latest monthly iteration, and here's some great picks of the outcome:

Saturday 14 February 2015

TOH Keyboard for Jolla phone - demo video

QWERTY Keyboard coming up for Jolla phone in few months

On last October, an interesting community project started - TOHKBD was launched on Kickstarter

The crowdfunding was a great success with goal reached in 7 hours and in the end, more than 1100 pieces pre-ordered. Now it's time for an update, check the latest photos and video:

Saturday 7 February 2015

Sailors and Jolla fans - Some MWC15 DIT

To help all those who can't make it to MWC15 in Barcelona

In this unlike community, nobody's being selfish.

We just love to Do It Together, and here's one more idea to do so,

and we also love if Twitter will FLOOD of certain hashtags then ;)

UPDATE: List published here

cover image: Last morning at MWC14, photo by jollagirls (Instagram)

Friday 6 February 2015

[News] Jolla introduces Angry Birds The Other Half


Introducing Jolla Angry Birds Stella Limited Edition!

Jolla, in cooperation with Rovio, introduces a new Jolla experience spiced up with Angry Birds Stella. Customers can get a Jolla smartphone with Angry Birds Stella The Other Half including TOH, wallpaper, sounds and ToonsTV

Tuesday 3 February 2015

Jolla invites users to Early Access Sailfish OS releases

Experienced users, especially developers, are invited to install Jolla Sailfish OS releases earlier than public release

This is almost NEWS - And in my opinion, nice news indeed. Jolla is looking for even deeper contact with their community, hoping to get some final feedback of their system updates in advance to the public release.