<story><title>Jolla</title><url>http://jolla.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>daliusd</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m pretty sure they can&amp;#x27;t use &amp;quot;Nokia&amp;quot; in their advertisements.</text></item><item><author>geuis</author><text>Please forward this paragraph to their web folks. Just put it right at the top as a first-read. Then everything else makes a lot more sense.</text></item><item><author>Brakenshire</author><text>For the people who are genuinely confused, Jolla is a company that sells smartphones, their first smartphone is also called Jolla; it runs Sailfish OS, which is effectively a fork of the Meego operating system which Nokia used in its N9&amp;#x2F;N900 phones, before they switched to Windows Mobile. This is not very surprising, because Jolla is a Finnish company principally made up of ex-Nokia engineers, including a lot of the people who created the N9 in the first place. Sailfish OS stays closer to Linux than Android, using Wayland, Qt&amp;#x2F;QML, PulseAudio etc, and adhering to the Linux Standard Base specification. It also comes packaged with an Android runtime based on Alien Dalvik, so that it can run Android applications (similar to Blackberry 10), although it won&amp;#x27;t have access to Google Play or the Play Services APIs. The phone is being launched this week in Finland, and there are plans for release in the rest of Europe, and in China, though not so far in the US.&lt;p&gt;Edit: Some more technical details about the OS: &lt;a href=&quot;https://sailfishos.org/about-technology.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;sailfishos.org&amp;#x2F;about-technology.html&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>jasonkester</author><text>They seem to put a lot of effort into telling you things other than &amp;quot;what is this thing?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;It sorta looks like a phone.  Is it a phone?  &amp;quot;Jolla is powered by Sailfish OS.&amp;quot;  Sweet.  How is that relevant?  It must be important because it spends the rest of the page telling you about the OS.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m back here, with honestly no idea what it is.  Probably not the impression they want to leave on people, assuming (as a guess) that this is a consumer product of some kind.&lt;p&gt;It seems they put the engineers in charge of designing the website.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gojomo</author><text>Yes, but there&amp;#x27;s one interesting bit of fine print in the Nokia-Microsoft deal that gives the runt company (that was the old Nokia) the right to start using the Nokia name again... as of January 1, 2016:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://followingjolla.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-small-print-three-ways-nokia-can.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;followingjolla.blogspot.com&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;the-small-print-t...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Of course Jolla is a different company as well... but we&amp;#x27;re barely 2 years away from more wild naming-strategery options, for Nokia-offshoot Finnish companies.</text></comment>
<story><title>Jolla</title><url>http://jolla.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>daliusd</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m pretty sure they can&amp;#x27;t use &amp;quot;Nokia&amp;quot; in their advertisements.</text></item><item><author>geuis</author><text>Please forward this paragraph to their web folks. Just put it right at the top as a first-read. Then everything else makes a lot more sense.</text></item><item><author>Brakenshire</author><text>For the people who are genuinely confused, Jolla is a company that sells smartphones, their first smartphone is also called Jolla; it runs Sailfish OS, which is effectively a fork of the Meego operating system which Nokia used in its N9&amp;#x2F;N900 phones, before they switched to Windows Mobile. This is not very surprising, because Jolla is a Finnish company principally made up of ex-Nokia engineers, including a lot of the people who created the N9 in the first place. Sailfish OS stays closer to Linux than Android, using Wayland, Qt&amp;#x2F;QML, PulseAudio etc, and adhering to the Linux Standard Base specification. It also comes packaged with an Android runtime based on Alien Dalvik, so that it can run Android applications (similar to Blackberry 10), although it won&amp;#x27;t have access to Google Play or the Play Services APIs. The phone is being launched this week in Finland, and there are plans for release in the rest of Europe, and in China, though not so far in the US.&lt;p&gt;Edit: Some more technical details about the OS: &lt;a href=&quot;https://sailfishos.org/about-technology.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;sailfishos.org&amp;#x2F;about-technology.html&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>jasonkester</author><text>They seem to put a lot of effort into telling you things other than &amp;quot;what is this thing?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;It sorta looks like a phone.  Is it a phone?  &amp;quot;Jolla is powered by Sailfish OS.&amp;quot;  Sweet.  How is that relevant?  It must be important because it spends the rest of the page telling you about the OS.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m back here, with honestly no idea what it is.  Probably not the impression they want to leave on people, assuming (as a guess) that this is a consumer product of some kind.&lt;p&gt;It seems they put the engineers in charge of designing the website.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zobzu</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m pretty sure they can say jolla is the phone, sailfish the os, and that it comes from meego tho. and everything else without mentioning even Nokia. heh.</text></comment>