Jolla Press Release: 21/08/13
The first production batch of Jolla smartphones fully booked with demand from 136 countries
Helsinki – 21 August, 2013. The first production batch of Jolla smartphones has been fully booked by consumers and selected sales channels. Jolla launched its first smartphone at the #JollaLoveDay event in May. At the same time, Jolla kicked off an online pre-order campaign, which reached its first batch limit by mid-July. Online pre-orders were received from 136 countries in all.
“We are delighted to see this great worldwide interest towards our very first device. When you see someone wearing an ‘I am the First One’ T-shirt, you see a proud future owner of Jolla,” says Tomi Pienimäki, CEO of Jolla. “For those, who missed the first opportunity, we are now doing our best to offer a second chance, a new batch of Jolla smartphones later in the autumn. I encourage everyone interested in Jolla to sign up at jolla.com and be the first to know about any new developments, such as the opening of the next pre-sales campaign.”
The first Jolla is targeted to begin shipping by the end of 2013, starting in Europe. The Jolla phone production programme is proceeding as planned and sales will start in Finland with DNA, the first operator in the world to offer Jolla smartphones.
About Jolla
Jolla Ltd., headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, is developing mobile devices and open Sailfish OS based on the heritage of MeeGo project. In addition to its R&D sites in Helsinki and Tampere, Jolla has offices in Hong Kong.
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Dear Jolla
Thanks for the news and looking forward to hear more and more about the production of the device.
Please inform us if there is any change in device’s hardware or shape
All the best
Maybe it’s the same hardware than Nokia Lumia 920 with qualcomm S4 dual core SOC, it’s can’t be worse …
TBH I wouldn’t worry about Jolla’s hardware. If it is optimized as good as its roots are it’s going to do just fine with the cheapest smarthphone hardware by today’s standards.
Progress is slow but progress is progress. I will be very intetested to see how the final Jolla production model looks and performs. Then all the speculation can stop and we can see what we are really talking about. PS. Have Jolla ever actually disclosed how many pre-production orders it took orders from those 136 countries?
From reading around, suggestions are that in one batch their current upper limit is 50,000 units and it could have been anything up to this amount for the first pre-order. That would also include for example orders from some of their bigger customers such as DNA and DPhone.
Slow compared to what?
Certainly not compared to Tizen, & absolutely not compared to Ubuntu Touch.
Compared to FFOS, maybe, but then FFOS is nowhere near as ambitious.
there’s some minor change in the design : https://plus.google.com/+jolla/posts/PutsX34F7Y2
/2013/05/24/have-you-pre-ordered-vote-to-be-heard/the-jolla/
^That may be the best image of the first design to notice the changes