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May

2013

Jolla smartphone with Sailfish OS now available to pre-order

Author: The Fonecast

Finnish smartphone company Jolla has started taking pre-orders of its first device.

Its phone, which runs the Sailfish OS and has a 4.5-inch display, is currently priced at €399 (£337) plus shipping. Full details aren’t known but it’ll run a dual-core chip and will support 4G.

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10

Dec

2012

Huawei plans new R&D centre in Finland

Author: The Fonecast

A few months ago we heard that Huawei was planning to spend £1.3 billion in the UK on a number of projects during the next five years. It’s now announced new plans to invest €70 million (£56 million) to establish a research and development centre in Helsinki.

The money will be spent over the next five years as the R&D centre expands to employ more than 100 people.

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4

Dec

2012

Nokia is selling its head office and then leasing it back

Author: The Fonecast

Fifteen years after moving in, Nokia has agreed to sell its head office building in the Finnish city of Espoo to property management company Exilion.

The building, which was designed by architect Pekka Helin, is being sold for 170 million Euro (£138 million). Nokia will then occupy the HQ building on a long-term lease.

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22

Nov

2012

Jolla demonstrates its MeeGo-based Sailfish mobile user interface

Author: The Fonecast

Finnish company Jolla, which launched in July with plans to release a smartphone with a user interface based on the MeeGo platform, has demonstrated its user interface and the ‘Sailfish’ OS at the Slush start-up conference in Helsinki.

In addition it’s announced a forthcoming software development kit for Sailfish.

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4

Oct

2012

MeeGo-based Jolla mobile user interface to debut next month

Author: The Fonecast

In July we reported that a new Finnish company called Jolla had been formed from a team of specialists that had worked on the MeeGo-powered Nokia N9. It planned to release a smartphone with a new user interface based on MeeGo.

A few days ago Jolla Ltd announced a new ecosystem alliance to support a MeeGo-based mobile OS codenamed ‘Sailfish’ and today it’s confirmed a date for the public unveiling of its user interface.

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