Jolla, the smartphone start up company from Finland has announced today that it plans to launch its first Jolla smartphone running on its own Sailfish OS. It has tied up with online retailer Snapdeal to enter the Indian market soon. It has an unique design. There are two parts to the smartphone, the front and the cover which Jolla refer to as the other half.
Jolla specifications
- Ample 4.5″ (960 x 540 pixels) qHD 5-point multi-touch IPS display with Gorilla Glass 2 protection
- Sailfish OS
- 1.4 GHz dual-core Snapdragon 400 SoC
- 8 megapixel AF camera with LED flash
- 2 megapixel front-facing camera
- 9.9 mm thick and weighs 141 grams
- 16GB storage, 1GB RAM, MicroSD slot
- 4G LTE, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n , Bluetooth 4.0, GPS and GLONASS
- 2100 mAh removable battery
Jolla says that it would launch the smartphone in India exclusively on Snapdeal with a month. It currently sells its smartphone in some European countries for 349 Euros (Rs. 28,500 approx). The company has not announced how much it would cost in India.
Commenting on the Indian entry, Sami Pienimäki, Co-founder and CMO of Jolla, said,
India is the rising smartphone market of the world and we look forward to welcoming many new Jolla fans across the country. Since late 2011 when we established the company Jolla, we have received a tremendous amount of interest from India to enter this great market. In particular we have found it very encouraging how much there is interest and trust for mobile heritage coming from Finland, and what kind of development opportunities there are to start to develop e.g. local applications for India.
Kunal Bahl, Co-founder & CEO, Snapdeal.com, said
We at Snapdeal.com constantly endeavor to offer high quality products across varied categories to our 25 million+ users at best prices. The smartphone category has been getting an extremely encouraging response on our platform. However the market in India offers few choices in terms of mobile operating systems. Jolla with its innovative Sailfish OS introduces an entirely new user experience to consumers.
We unboxed the Jolla smartphone last year. Check out the unboxing below.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qdx4JgNSQ7Q