NOKIA smartphones! New company in Finland

NOKIA returning to mobile device markets via exclusive licence for IP and brand with HMD Global

Nokia, the "mothership" also behind Sailfish OS team Jolla Oy, have their smartphone brand held by Microsoft for a while more, but today Nokia announced a new IP and licencing agreement. New Finnish based company HMD Global is to make Nokia branded phones and tablets using Nokia patents and having Nokia member on board for ensuring quality, design and Nokia's consumer focused innovation.

Opinion on Sailfish OS 2.0 user experience

Honest opinions after updating from Sailfish OS 1.0 to 2.0 user interface

Posted by user hippy on TJC, this opinion shares a well written user experience on some of the changes Jolla made when trying to compromise smartphone and tablet PC user interfaces into one software. I mostly agree with everything said, and so does many others:

Jolla Tablet shipping delayed

Update on Sailfish OS Jolla Tablet shipping dates

Developers (invited) will have their Jolla Tablet in the beginning of August.

Update: More precise information on the delay, more accurate shipping dates.

The Best Tablet at #MWC15 is Jolla Tablet

Jolla Tablet awarded by Trusted Reviews

Thursday, March 5 2015, on the last day of Mobile World Congress there was a reason for celebration at Jolla Booth:

Jolla Tablet, running on Sailfish OS 2.0 (not yet released), got awarded as The Best Tablet of the whole event by Trusted Reviews. You can really see the pride and happiness in these photos (license for sharing available below)

Jolla Tablet microSD support - What really happened?

microSD, SDHC, SDXC, FAT32, exFAT, ext4, What?

A mess around Jolla Tablet's microSD support is a sum of mistakes, expectations, disagreements, misunderstandings and the sound of the Jolla community.

Let's go through the facts and see where this all might take us in the end.

[News] Jolla Tablet 64Gb now crowdfunding

2nd round on Indiegogo introduces Jolla Tablet with more internal memory storage

Finland, January 29, 2015: After a succesful tablet campaign back in 2014, Jolla reopens it on Indiegogo. Those who already financed the 32Gb tablet last year are offered an option to upgrade to 64Gb with just $25 extra investment

[News] Jolla Tablet campaign in short

Campaign time is up, let's wrap it

December 10, 2014: Jolla, start up company from Finland, has just reached the end of 3 week funding project for the world's first crowdsourced tablet.

This new Linux tablet, running not yet finalized Sailfish OS 2.0, was introduced at Slush 2014 conference in Finland on November 19th. Jolla called it "PeoplePowered" Jolla Tablet.

Jolla gathered $1.8 million with a wise campaign strategy, and yes, a nice looking product as well, reaching 11th position on the list of all time The Most Funded Campaigns on Indiegogo

Followup: Crowdsourced Jolla Tablet reaches top lists in funding

[News followup] Activity seen!

November 19th, 2014 Jolla introduced Jolla Tablet at Slush 2014 conference.

Since then, miracles are happening. Latest updates December 8th:

- Trending top3 campaign,
  All time top12 crowdfunding
   on Indiegogo
- $1.6 million from 11 500 funders
- Upgrade: support for 128Gb SD cards (reached)
- Upgrade: Split Screen (reached)
- Upgrade: HSDPA/3.5G mobile internet (hours to go... unlike)
- Offer: Jolla phone for 227€

Optimal screen resolution on mobile devices

[Editorial] human physics facing technical limits

This time I take a more general view into the display resolution issues, including some facts about physics, some THX recommendations, and some hardware performance issues, in a hunt for an optimal resolution to any mobile phones and tablets.

[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.

[News] Jolla Tablet introduced

Announcement: New Sailfish OS device

November 19, 2014, Helsinki, Finland: Jolla introduced Jolla Tablet at Slush 2014 conference. It's People Powered, meaning crowd funded, with $1 million after 1.5 days from launch

Update: Trending top3, all time top20