Jolla
This article is about the company. For the operating system by Jolla, see Sailfish OS. For the alliance gathering Sailfish OS partners, see Sailfish Alliance. For other uses, see Jolla (disambiguation).
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| Type | Private |
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| Industry | Mobile devices, Consumer Electronics/Devices |
| Founded | Pirkkala, Finland (March 29, 2011) |
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| Headquarters | Helsinki, Finland |
| Area served | Worldwide |
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| Products | Smartphones with Linux-based Sailfish OS continuing the previous work of the MeeGo project |
| Employees | 150 developers |
| Website | Jolla.com |
Jolla, in Finnish, is pronounced 'yolla'.
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History
Nokia, after rapidly losing marketshare in the smartphone market, decided to create a new operating system based on Linux, naming it Maemo. After merging with Intel's Moblin project (also an open source Linux system), the project was renamed MeeGo On 7 February 2011, Nokia chose to concentrate on Windows Phone for the high-end smartphones, stopping development of their MeeGo-based handsets.[citation needed]In October 2011, many of the MeeGo team left Nokia to form Jolla, utilizing funding from Nokia's "Bridge" program which helps establish and support start-up companies formed by ex-Nokia employees.[4][5][6]
Nokia paid employees leaving the company €25,000, but had not given any rights to patents or other intellectual property to Jolla. While Jolla's Sailfish OS can be considered a direct successor to Nokia and Intel's MeeGo and the N9 mobile phone, only its software is based on the open-sourced components of MeeGo, while the closed-source user interface design for all future devices had to be developed from scratch.
Sailfish
Jolla went public on 6 July 2012, announcing its intention to develop new smartphones which utilized a gesture-oriented user interface. They named their operating system "Sailfish", which is a result of Mer and includes a gesture-based user interface developed using the Qt, QML and HTML5, as did Nokia's N9.Jolla hopes to co-operate with others to grow their application's ecosystem, which many think is weak when compared to iOS and Android.[7] Jolla announced on 17 September 2013 that their phone will be capable of running most Android applications, though without direct access to the Google Play Store.[8]
Location
The company's headquarters are in Ruoholahti, Helsinki with an R&D office in Tampere. They are expanding to open an R&D department and office in the Hong Kong Cyberport.Products
Hardware
- Jolla Phone - smartphone with 4.5 in IPS qHD display, 16 GB storage, 1 GB RAM, a microSD slot and an 8 MP camera.
- The Other Half - replaceable back cover to the Jolla phone, to change appearance and ambience settings.
- Jolla's Sailfish OS has been fully operational on Acer T231H, with 23 in screen as well as on Dell notebooks.[10]
- Jolla's Sailfish OS is also operational on tablets such as: Acer Iconia tab W500;[11] O2 Joggler;[12] and Exopc.[13]
Ecosystem
The first element of the ecosystem is the Jolla Harbour, which is devoted for submitting and managing applications at the Jolla Store. Consumers are able to install available software directly from their Jolla smartphones.Software can be submitted on a free basis, utilizing either the Sailfish OS or Android OS applications.
Currently, the Jolla Harbour and Jolla Store support only free applications. Future plans are to develop payment processing capabilities.
For developers and software enthusiasts, sailfish.org collects and publishes here [14] an online compendium of knowledge, links and instructions on:[15]
- software porting and migration to Sailfish OS
- similarities and differences between Harmattan and Sailfish
- guides on how to port MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan applications for both the Nokia N9 and the Sailfish operating system.
- porting framework
- application porting tutorials and examples (QtQuick QML applications, the Flickr application Qt 5, SDL / OpenGL ES applications)
- Qt Quick Components map to Sailfish Silica
Software
Jolla advertises that Sailfish OS is be able to run, in addition to Sailfish-native apps, Android apps using a compatibility layer available from the Jolla Store. From launch, this has given the devices access to a large number of applications.Because of Sailfish's Linux and Qt roots, it is able to port applications from the following sources without significant effort:
- Android (using the Android compatibility layer from the Jolla Store, which is Alien Dalvik from Myriad Group)
- Qt (ported from other Qt-supported operating systems such as Symbian and MeeGo)
- MeeGo (because Sailfish has inherited much of the MeeGo work)
- Unix and Linux (usually command-line applications or other UI limitations)
- HTML5 (using the built-in Mozilla-based browser)
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