<story><title>Finnish MeeGo Startup Jolla Reveals First Phone With Customisable Shells</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/20/finnish-meego-startup-jolla-reveals-first-phone-hardware-with-customisable-shells-e399-price-tag-coming-at-years-end/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>networked</author><text>&amp;#62;Jolla’s handset will cost €399 ($513) and is slated to ship at the end of the year.&lt;p&gt;I find Sailfish an interesting product due to its technological heritage but that is rather a lot. I wonder what their marketing strategy is for this device.&lt;p&gt;From a developer&apos;s perspective you can&apos;t help but compare that price to how much it would cost to get a Firefox OS development unit. FxOS also promises you access to a larger, if less affluent, audience. On the other hand, a higher price might prevent the kind of shortages we are currently seeing with Geeksphone Keon and Peak.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blub</author><text>If you&apos;re looking to sell apps, both FF and Jolla are a bad bet I believe. If you&apos;re looking for a mobile computer like the N900 (or to a lesser extent the N9) was, then I don&apos;t think FF really qualifies...</text></comment>
<story><title>Finnish MeeGo Startup Jolla Reveals First Phone With Customisable Shells</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/20/finnish-meego-startup-jolla-reveals-first-phone-hardware-with-customisable-shells-e399-price-tag-coming-at-years-end/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>networked</author><text>&amp;#62;Jolla’s handset will cost €399 ($513) and is slated to ship at the end of the year.&lt;p&gt;I find Sailfish an interesting product due to its technological heritage but that is rather a lot. I wonder what their marketing strategy is for this device.&lt;p&gt;From a developer&apos;s perspective you can&apos;t help but compare that price to how much it would cost to get a Firefox OS development unit. FxOS also promises you access to a larger, if less affluent, audience. On the other hand, a higher price might prevent the kind of shortages we are currently seeing with Geeksphone Keon and Peak.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pekk</author><text>This isn&apos;t even the same game as Firefox OS. If you expect to get a phone even similar to N9 for $50 then I don&apos;t know what to say. It is just a different market.</text></comment>