Jolla: New Partnerships Moving forward
As can be seen from the photo taken earlier at the keynote speech, here we see Antii Saarnio speaking of partnerships.
Antti Saarnio Speaking of Profits, Partners and T-shirts
Although it’s quite hard to make out, we can see that there are a growing number there from the backdrop – some of them we’ve seen already, some of them new:
D.Phone - China’s largest retailer for mobile phones and accessories
DNA - Finnish mobile network
Joiku - Produces Mobile WiFi HotSpot software for Nokia phones
Myriad - Myriad Alien Dalvik enables Android applications to operate on non-Android devices
Opera – Web browser veterans making browsers for most major mobile phone platforms
ST-Ericsson - Industry leader in design, development, and the creation of cutting-edge mobile platforms and wireless semiconductors.
Tekes – the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation
Tencent, Inc.- has grown into China’s largest and most used Internet service portal.
The biggest news today really were the announced deals with Finnish network DNA who Jolla plan to market their handset with in 2013 and the ST-Ericsson deal which was mentioned in the Jolla press release earlier today.
“We warmly welcome ST-Ericsson onboard. It is great that this industry leader is partnering with us and Sailfish. ST- ‐Ericsson’s NovaThor platform combined with Sailfish OS will enable vendors to bring highly competitive mobile products to the market. We welcome other players in the mobile industry to join and contribute to this game changing movement. We also target to announce other chipset provider partnerships soon,” said Marc Dillon,CEO of Jolla.
Myriad was also another exciting prospect confirming Jolla’s interest to make Sailfish compatible with Android apps.
So I guess that just about wraps up a very busy day in Jolla world – well done Jolla and looking forward to seeing the SDK story tomorrow @ SLUSH!
Let us know what you think of the partnerships Jolla have made so far – are there any ‘dream’ partnerships you would like to see there?
Thanks for reading! 
I will like, you partnership with stantum to develop technology for multi-touch interface for touchscreen
I guess the Myriad partnership explains the little android robot present in the first Jolla Sailfish commercial.
Once a major Chinese player starts issuing handsets, Jolla will really take off.
hope you work again with nokia……….
I’m really curious to see who the first handset manufacturer will be to partner with Sailfish!
Probably some relatively unknown Chinese brand, that’s not necessarily a bad thing LT, it could be the next Samsung in another 2yrs for all we know. This industry moves very fast…
I think one of the actual Android manufacturers who are frustrated from the Samsung’s dominace might be a hit. I think of Sony Mobile or HTC. Even Acer who is angry at Microsoft too might be interested to join the Sailfish Alliance. Indeed they could produce not only smartphones but tablets and new netbooks or hybrids and give more power to their cloud services through an os they could give their own brand within the Alliance.
I wonder how is Opera Software involved in the project. Are they going to make the default browser for Jolla’s phones?
I would like to see partnerships with tablet manufacturers. I want mobile devices which do not spy on me and force me to to everything through restricted cloud apps monitored and controlled by Apple, Google or Microsoft. I still want to maximise use of my mobile devices when not connected to the web.