Jolla announces world's first crowdfunded tablet!!..

[Dinesh jain]

Yesterday, Nokia unveiled the N1 tablet to
great surprise at the Slush Conference in
Finland. And on Wednesday, Jolla, a company
created out of the remnants of Nokia's MeeGo
software unit has announced another tablet at
Slush. Dubbed the Jolla Tablet, it plans on
reinventing multitasking on a tablet.

As interesting this is, Jolla has launched an
Indiegogo campaign so that it can extend the
reach of the tablet. To begin with, the tablet
will be offered in India, Russia, EU, Norway,
Switzerland, US, and Hong Kong. If there are
enough petitioners, the tablet will be available
in more markets.

Unlike the Nokia N1 it runs the Sailfish OS like
its phone, which is based on the MeeGo
operating system that Nokia killed in 2011 in
favour of Windows Phone.

It runs similar hardware to the Nokia N1. It has
a 7.85-inch 2048x1536 pixels screen, a quad-
core Intel Atom processor clocked at 1.8GHz,
2GB RAM, 32GB of internal memory and a
microSD card slot.

It is thicker than both the iPad mini and the
Nokia N1 at 8.3mm and will be only offered in
a Wi-Fi only avatar. Its battery is also smaller
than its competitors at 4,300mAh. Additionally,
it will have a 5-megapixel rear camera and a 2-
megapixel front camera.

Jolla's biggest innovation is its Sailfish OS,
which hits version 2.0 with the tablet. Its user
interface paradigm is called 'Ambience' and
has a new Event view. There's support for
Android apps and it also has the Jolla Store for
native Sailfish OS apps.

The big feature is multitasking. While tablets
based on Windows already offer Microsoft's
SnapView and Samsung's Galaxy Android tabs
have a function known as Multi-Window. Jolla
hopes that it can deliver a better multitasking
system in place. So far, Apple is yet to offer
windows multitasking on the iPad.

The first 1000 backers of the tablet will get
the tablet for $189 (Rs 11,686), and the next
1000 backers will get it for $199 ( Rs 12,305).
Jolla is seeking $380,000 for the initial project.

Jolla announces world's first crowdfunded tablet

 

[Siva]

Re: Jolla announces world's first crowdfunded table

Hey, your title says table instead of tablet!! Nice share by the way.

 

[Dinesh jain]

Hey, your title says table instead of tablet!! Nice share by the way.

done bro

 

[iSK]

Helsinki: Finland's Jolla, a group of
ex-Nokia software developers,
announced a plan to launch a crowd-
sourced tablet computer just a day
after Nokia said it was reviving its
consumer brand by entering the
tablet market.

Jolla was founded by Nokia's former
MeeGo software team that was shut
down after the Finnish flagship
company decided to switch to
Microsoft's Windows Phone software
in 2011. Jolla unveiled its first
smartphone last year.

The new tablet, due to come out in
the second quarter of next year, will
run on the company's open operating
system called Sailfish, which is
developed from Meego.
Just a few hours after Jolla's
announcement, the project had
raised more than $500,000 on crowd-
funding platform Indiegogo. The
company had been seeking funds of
just $380,000.

"We are an operating system
company, and this is a tablet to our
fans," Jolla's board chairman Antti
Saarnio told Helsingin Sanomat
newspaper's online edition.

Nokia, which sold its ailing phones
and devices business to Microsoft
earlier this year, on Tuesday
announced a new brand-licensed
Android tablet.

Jolla will use a subcontractor to
manufacture its tablet, as it does for
the mobile phones it sells. Early
contributors would get the tablet for
a price of $189, it said.

Apple last month reported that sales
of iPad, which helped launch the
mainstream tablet market in 2010,
have slid for three consecutive
quarters.

Jolla plans to launch a budget Sailfish tablet; aims to take on Nokia N1, Nexus 9, iPad Mini 3

 

[Dinesh jain]

nice share bro