Jolla: Weekly News Roundup V2
The news has been rolling in over the last week, but unfortunately we’ve been quite engaged in other affairs so please accept my apologies and another weekly update to bring us back up to speed.
As tipped by Torcida in a previous post, former CEO, Marc Dillon will be speaking at Finnish startup event, Slush 2013 which is held between 13-14 November next month. Last year, Jolla made a big splash at the event as a brand new startup showing off Sailfish for the very first time, and it appears this year Marc will be present again as a spokesman for Jolla. Could we expect some more formal announcements maybe ? Stay tuned…
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Jolla Win The Millenium Prize
Some more news last week was that Jolla have been awarded the Millennium prize from Finland’s Technology Academy as tipped by another reader, Butter Vitalis. You can read more about this story here or here if you are Finnish, and we’d like to extend a massive congratulations to Jolla on their achievements to date! :-)
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Jolla’s second pre-order wave (for Finnish customers only) officially ended last week and it sounds as though Jolla were more than happy with the results tweeting:
The #Jolla pre-booking campaign is now closed as we prepare for launch. We’re extremely excited by the high demand, thanks for pre-booking!
— Jolla (@JollaHQ) October 23, 2013
For those outside Finland eager to get hold of a Jolla handset, Jolla are working on that and should have some news hopefully soon:
@JujuDHighlands We are working on making the next chances, and will announce when possible.
— Jolla (@JollaHQ) October 24, 2013
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SmartDevCon, the organisers of the conference Jolla attended earlier last month have published videos of both David Greaves and Vesa Matti in action at the event with their talks “Sailfish & Mer? Oh, no, not another one!” and “Developing Applications For Jolla’s Sailfish OS” respectively. You can watch the videos by clicking on either names of the two sailors above.
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In other news spotted on our twitter feed earlier, ever the tease, Jolla’s CTO Stefano Mosconi had promised something ‘legendary’ this week:
This week is gonna be legendary…
— Stefano Mosconi (@zzste) October 28, 2013
But he goes on to quash any random speculatory rantings with the following statements:
Thanks everyone for all the love shown. I said it is going to be legendary but I didn't necessarily mean for everyone :) #Jolla
— Stefano Mosconi (@zzste) October 28, 2013
@anidel I meant for #Jolla #Sailors only ;)
— Stefano Mosconi (@zzste) October 29, 2013
Seems like something internal in the company might be brewing for the Jolla Sailors this week – I wonder what it could be? :-)
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According to MyNokiaBlog, there is a version of Sailfish SDK now running on an N9 which marks the very early stages of getting full blown Sailfish OS running on the Nokia N9. While it’s definitely only in alpha stages, it’s nice to see some progress being made here all the same.
As quoted from the locusf2’s youtube channel:
* THIS IS NOT REAL SAILFISH, its the SDK version of Sailfish
* This is sailfish _homescreen_ on top of nemomobile applications
* Performance is not the real thing
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Finally, there is still much speculation that the formal launch of the Jolla handset has to be imminent, after all we are only months away from the end of 2013 and we do expect to receive our pre-orders by December at the latest with any luck. As tipped by Shane, the speculation continues over at maemo.org and we’re getting verrry excited for some big news coming up next month! :-)
Thanks for reading and Sail On…
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It is taking so long to arrive :( I can’t wait ffs ! :D
Also now i’m doubting,i got the 40 eur pre-order pack will i get it this year still too??
As long as you were in one of the countries serviced in the 1st pre-order, you should have the same chance as everyone else from the first wave to bag your handset.
good post…thanks! i real really hope for a third pre order wave or a good N9 port. come on jolla, although there are only 80 people working hard…we long for more sailing power.
No problem and thanks for the goodwill. :-)
I would certainly be glad of a Jolla phone arriving sooner rather than later. Usually my N9 lasts me most of the day at work but I was away for the weekend and found out that if I’m not on wifi and instead on 3G, using maps etc, my now 2+ year old N9 is lasting till about lunchtime max. Heavy power users seem to suck the life out of the battery and drain it quicker than it used to.
I do have a spare, barely used, Lumia 800 to dissect for a replacement battery (thanks Nokia dev program! ) but I’d rather not take my N9 apart before the replacement has arrived just in case I have to go back to an E71.
You’d be better off selling the Lumia and buying a cheap spare battery I would have thought. That was my only criticism of the N9 = no replaceable battery and I’m so happy Jolla have thought of that.
I’d rather take the Lumia out of circulation. One less Microsoft product out there causing untold misery. ;)
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