Podcast - 4th December 2013
It's been a week of diverse mobile headlines in which Jolla started selling its Sailfish smartphone, mobile shopping broke records and BlackBerry's CEO looked to the future.
We're also talking about smartphones for seniors, battery life, a looming spectrum shortage, phone theft and Sony's Smart Wig. Something for everyone, surely!
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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 company Jolla, which is working on a smartphone powered by the Sailfish operating system, says its first production batch of smartphones has been fully booked.
The device was launched in May and is expected to start shipping by the end of the year.
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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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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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