Jolla phone release moved to end of 2013, announcement happening soon

Posted by in Jolla, News on Feb 27, 2013 | 11 comments

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Some bad news, yet probably not all too surprising. Jolla has been vague about the supposed summer release of their first device and now CEO of Jolla, Marc Dillon has officially confirmed that Jolla is aiming to release the phone before Christmas in Finland and in China before Chinese New Year. A bit of a change of the summer release target.

We will release the device and the details as soon as possible, probably in March or April. It is important to publish the product on time in order to be ready for distribution when the device enters the market. - Marc Dillon

 

Then lets talk more about the device. According to Dillon they are looking at the markets outside of Finland and China, like you would expect. According to Dillon there’s multiple options open for them there. To question will Jolla announce multiple devices, Dillon simply answers that they already have ready product roadmap laid out.

When it comes to price Dillon mentions their phone to be premium smartphone, yet it’s not on the very highest price category. Again, Jolla certainly has its targets set high and oh so familiar to anybody who follows Nokia.

Sailfish comes right after them (Android and iOS). We have the most interesting package just now and our system is all different from everybody else. - Marc Dillon

Great, now we have another company singing that 3rd ecosystem mantra. ;) Dillon still wishes no bad for the Finnish giant and would be more than ready to license Sailfish for Nokia as well. He also claims that there has been a lot of interest from other manufacturers, but doesn’t name them.

 

 

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  • john

    hopefully elop makes a deal with jolla and we c something other than juss windows phone if not i wont be caught dead with a windows handset but jolla sounds super its like meego reborned with android apps quicktime apps real multitasking the best of both worlds your prime target should be nokia as they dont make android phones that in itself is were jolla come along make sure less buggy than android and ill glagly give u guys my money

    • jalyst

      No thanks, not while current management resides at Nokia, they should stay very far away until that group retires or is replaced. There’s heaps of other OEM/ODM/Carriers etc. that they can collaborate with, it’s a huge world…

  • jalyst

    What a sad, sad, joke… Jolla’s done, good-bye…

    • Nokiagadgets

      I guess after experiencing the constant lows and up of Maemo/MeeGo project for 5 years i have taken laid-back attitude with these kind of projects. :)
      The device will come out when it will and when it does i will see if i have any reason to get it.

      I don’t believe that the Q1 announcement and long wait till release is bad for open source project like this. It’s naturally different story when we are talking about big, established brands that has already solid foundation to build on, but Jolla needs to show to developers and investors that there’s something physical to wait and code for.

      Thing i fear most with this is just how competitive will the hardware be when it comes out. If we are to find something positive out of this it could be that they moved upwards on their roadmap. Like it happened with Nokia’s Dali and Lankku.
      Granted i’m not sure they have resources for that and keeping ~Q1 announcement doesn’t support that.

      • jalyst

        Showing devs/investors means almost nothing, having a abundance of devices (all similarly specc’d) from which devs can USE (instead of just emulators) is far better than that, on that front they’re a total fail compared to Ubuntu.

        “Granted i’m not sure they have resources for that and keeping ~Q1 announcement doesn’t support that.”

        Yup, total fail, I’m calling it here, it’ll be a very mediocre SoC, & they’ll use the mantra that: “hw doesn’t matter when the code is optimised for the hw”, pffft, losers.

        • Nokiagadgets

          There was a good article on PCmag recently (http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2413778,00.asp) about the hurdles these small open source companies have delivering hardware on time. That device in the end is what embodies the product and the OS. So as the situation is what it is, Jolla should imo announce the phone as early as it is possible.

          Naturally i would like to see devs units out there.

          • jalyst

            Personally don’t agree with the logic at all, but you’re entitled to your opinion, ofc.

          • jalyst

            Besides, as it is, Ubuntu will now have their hw out before Jolla…
            Assuming Jolla don’t get theirs out by or before Oct, & assuming Canonical is able to stick to their Oct. claim.

  • john

    just take your time and make sure everything is smoooth and you have all your basic apps fully working skype facebook twitter instagram email youtube

  • john

    the thing i love nokia phone but windows just dont do it and im always trying it out this looks even me not being an app junky i still come up short on windows phone come on no real torrent app very poor user custmization i mean tiles r ok but how bout a homescreen and wallpapers thats what sad im not hard to plz and u fail hope things change for windows phone blue update i have a nokia n8 and a samsung s3 and my next phone will truly replace them both that said my logic is simple why nokia putting all ther eggs in one basket i would love to see a nokia ubuntu android or jolla whats wrong with gunning down other markets u really want to try to force me into buying window nokia dont gain from that window phone does why cant they make three phones per os pureview high end model a medium high range and low end pls make all of us happy if not android another option

    • jalyst

      Sentence structure, punctuation, grammar etc. really help when you want people to read/understand what you’re saying. I can “just” comprehend it, but others will struggle.