Sailfish OS for Sony Xperia X single SIM, model F5121

Interview on the collaboration between Jolla and Sony Open Devices program

The official version is on its way, targeting to support for example MS Exchange Active Sync, Android apps and 20 MPx resolution for the camera. But an unofficial Sailfish OS for Xperia X might become available even sooner via the porters community.

Sailfish OS is an alternative mobile operating system coming from Finland, running on top of Linux Kernel and Mer core. Via this collaboration, Sailfish OS expands its support to cover 64bit ARM.

[news story] Sailfish OS on Fairphone 2 - a community driven project

European flagship phone with European operating system combines ethics and ideologies in the mobile industry  

Update, January 31, 2016: Some related news from FOSDEM2016 added

An interview based story on how a Dutch mobile phone Fairphone 2 gets a Finnish operating system Sailfish OS via great community involvement. Two communities wanted this to succeed. Two companies wanted that too. And it did. Jolla and Fairphone shares their comments below as well, both of them supporting this unofficial project.

[News] Jolla to continue Sailfish OS development

Financing round for series C closed, Jolla bypasses 3rd death valley

Summarizing a very interesting community meeting and a later press release by Jolla. Antti Saarnio, Head of Jolla, shares positive news on Jolla's financial situation. Juhani Lassila, Head of Communication, shares us some more details on both the meeting outcome and the press release.

News update: Sailfish OS secure phone

Sailfish Secure - new privacy oriented phone

Finland, October 19, 2015:
SSH Communications Security is co-operating with Jolla Oy to provide a new secure phone into the privacy concerned markets. The first customers are expected to be found on public sector, followed by privacy concerned businesses and organisations. Schedule for launch is yet difficult to estimate due to possibly long testing period.

[interview] Spotify Sailfish OS app for Jolla phone

Spotify for Sailfish OS - is it official?

Spotify Sailfish OS app for Jolla phone or Jolla tablet is a personal project at Spotify started by developer Mario Bob Jelica and joined by his coworker Pär Bohrarper. I had an opportunity to ask a few questions from Bob about himself and this project.

#MWC15 Interview: Jolla Community as a marketing channel

[video] Carol Chen, Community Chief at Jolla
Part 3 / 3 on the marketing theme

March 5, 2015, Mobile World Congress, Barcelona: This is the last part of a video interview trilogy on theme "Community Marketing". We started a discussion with Carol Chen about a company as part of it's own community, went on with Juhani Lassila on branding, and now we try to bring this into final with another discussion with Carol. Watch all three to get into the big picture - is B2C changing to P2P ?

#MWC15 Interview: Global Expanding - Getting Jolla brand known worldwide

[video] Juhani Lassila, Head of Communications at Jolla
Part 2 / 3 on the marketing theme

March 5, 2015, Mobile World Congress, Barcelona: Discussion with Juhani Lassila enlightens us on values, channels and 3rd parties as part of Jolla's marketing plan. In the end, I've added 5 questions from our readers, starting at 13th minute.

#MWC15 Interview: Jolla Oy as a member of its own community

[video] Carol Chen, Community Chief at Jolla
Part 1 / 3 on the marketing theme

March 5, 2015, Mobile World Congress, Barcelona: This is a first part of a video interview trilogy on theme "Community Marketing". We start with a discussion with Carol Chen about a company as part of it's own community, especially the differences joining to community work as individual sailors and as a business oriented company.

#MWC15 Interview: Jolla and Sailfish OS brands, global expanding

[video] Mikko Pyykkö, Head of Sales at Jolla Oy

Sailfish OS brand is getting more important to Jolla than the company brand itself. But why has it been slow to enter new markets? Are there new partners joining the sails soon? Mikko shares some of the problems on the sails so far, but he talks strong about a brighter future: "We'll soon see Sailfish OS devices all around the world", "Sailfish is faster than Ubuntu"

[Translated news] Interview with Antti Saarnio, CEO at Jolla

YLE News, Finland:
Jolla wishes to cooperate with Nokia

YLE News interviewed Antti Saarnio, CEO at Jolla at the Slush conference on Wednesday. News was published in Finnish today, here's the same in English:

Jolla, who introduced a new tablet device at Slush conference, searches major manufacturers as partners. Finnish companies must work together, says Antti Saarnio, Chairman at Jolla.

[Interview] All these people in the community rushing to support us

Project follow up: TOH KBD

Two weeks ago we shared the QWERTY Keyboard project launch by Dirk van Leersum, Andrew Zhilin and Kimmo Lindholm.

Project reached the financial goal of 55 000 EUR in few hours, and it's now well above 100 000 EUR. Now, all three of you, how has it been? 

[Edited] Jolla Boss - Big News coming

Marc Dillon at MWC 2014 with Makia and Rovio
The Other Halves, image by @myphonegr

Marc Dillon, co-founder and Head of software at Jolla gave a special interview to Iltalehti (Finnish magazine) published Jun-11-2014. Mr. Dillon was interviewed by Outi Järvinen, Kauppalehti. The article was published by Pauli Reinikainen, Iltasanomat and translated to English by Simo Ruoho, Review Jolla Blog

[quote] Marc Dillon's interview about Jolla by Norwegian

Is this the new Steve Jobs?

Norwegian published an interview with Marc Dillon, Co-founder and Head of Software at Jolla Oy. The article doesn't tell when the interview was given, and the only new pick I found is that Jolla is heading towards direct sales also in Italy. But this is what Marc Dillon said that I liked the most: “This is the world’s greatest mobile community”