Jolla pairs up with Snapdeal to launch its Smartphone in India featuring "SailFish OS"
Deepanshu Kumar, July 18th, 2014
After the fall of Nokia, the great Finnish company, we have another company from Finland called JOLLA( pronounced as "yolla") which is all set to enter the Indian Smartphone market in partnership with the online retailer Snapdeal.com. Jolla, started by former NOKIA employees, run its devices on Sailfish OS that is based on Meego, backed by Nokia, so there'll be some part of Nokia still alive in with these phones.
The footnote on the official website of the company says that Jolla will soon be available in India and users can key in their email address and the company will keep them notified about the launch. Kunal Bahl, Co-founder & CEO, Snapdeal said about the exclusive partnership: “The market in India offers few choices in terms of mobile operating systems. Jolla with its innovative Sailfish OS introduces an entirely new user experience to consumers. Jolla offers a unique smartphone experience.”
Sami Pienimäki, co-founder and CMO of Jolla said: “Since late 2011 when we established the company Jolla, we have received a tremendous amount of interest from India to enter this great market. In particular we have found it very encouraging how much there is interest and trust for mobile heritage coming from Finland, and what kind of development opportunities there are to start to develop e.g. local applications for India.”
“We are super excited to be partnering with the market leader Snapdeal, who has extensive reach in the booming online commerce market of India. Through this position, we are confident to reach those interested in a true alternative to the mainstream players.”
The footnote on the official website of the company says that Jolla will soon be available in India and users can key in their email address and the company will keep them notified about the launch. Kunal Bahl, Co-founder & CEO, Snapdeal said about the exclusive partnership: “The market in India offers few choices in terms of mobile operating systems. Jolla with its innovative Sailfish OS introduces an entirely new user experience to consumers. Jolla offers a unique smartphone experience.”
Sami Pienimäki, co-founder and CMO of Jolla said: “Since late 2011 when we established the company Jolla, we have received a tremendous amount of interest from India to enter this great market. In particular we have found it very encouraging how much there is interest and trust for mobile heritage coming from Finland, and what kind of development opportunities there are to start to develop e.g. local applications for India.”
“We are super excited to be partnering with the market leader Snapdeal, who has extensive reach in the booming online commerce market of India. Through this position, we are confident to reach those interested in a true alternative to the mainstream players.”
The Sailfish OS focuses on the ease and accessibility of the phone content which is accomplished by the gesture based functions to access apps and other features on the phone. Apart from that the good news is that Sailfish OS with support and let you download all the Android apps on the phone from the Play Store. The usp of this phone would definitely be The Other Half, which is essentially a backplate that adds unique themes and features to the Sailfish UI. Change the back panel and some elements of the UI also change. Jolla has released a software SDK for The Other Half component, which can be used to bake in other software features per panel.
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