Finnish company Jolla has started shipping the first smartphones that run the open-source Sailfish operating system.
The company was created by a group of former Nokia employees, with Sailfish using elements of Nokia’s old MeeGo platform.
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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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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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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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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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