Jolla pitches Sailfish OS tablet against fleet of Android slates - rommelcouldic

Finnish smartphone startup Jolla is hoping to rift into the tablet food market with its Sailfish Oculus sinister running on a device with a high-altitude-resolving 7.85-inch projection screen.

No ace seems to have to told the Finns how tough the tablet market is, though: Jolla's launch comes a day after its neighbor Nokia returned to the tablet securities industry with the Mechanical man-based N1.

Jolla, which means dory in Finnish, was founded in 2011 by a chemical group of erstwhile Nokia employees, and the company started selling its first smartphone in November last year.

The Jolla Tablet will start shipping during the second quarter next year, and it can be preordered via Jolla's new Indiegogo campaign, which also launched on Wed. The 1,000 devices that were available for $209 including shipping sold out quickly.

The goal is to raise $380,000 and sell 2,000 units before Declination. 9, and beforehand Wed dayspring likely buyers had helped the company surmount that sum. All the same, 2,000 units is but a small fraction of the number companies like Apple or Samsung Electronics sell in the prototypical 24 hours after a cartesian product launch. However, because Jolla is much smaller than those ii, it won't take to deal out nearly as many devices to survive.

The company is counting along its Sailfish OS to attract buyers. The Linux-settled OS is centered around a start page that shows wholly running apps conveniently in a widowed scene. Users can also ascendance apps from the multitasking view. As well running its own native apps, the operating system of rules can trial Mechanical man apps.

dillon jolla tablet — Co-founder Marc Dillon keeping the Sailfish tablet aloft.

"We believe that there is necessitate for this, and even though there are more than 400 Mechanical man tablets in the world there are nobelium open-source Sailfish tablets. So this is something different from everything else," said Taru Alvar Aalto, sales director at Jolla.

The Wi-Fi lozenge's 7.85-inch screen has a resolution of 2048 by 1536 pixels, and the device is powered by a 1.8 GHz quad-core processor from Intel. There is 2GB of RAM and 32GB of introjected storage that can cost expanded using the microSD card slot. The pad of paper also has a 5-megapixel camera along the back and a 2-megapixel forepart tv camera. It weighs 384 grams and is 8.3 millimeters dense.

The tablet hardware and the design is done, but the troupe has but started working on the tablet-friendly version of its Sailfish OS, according to a spokesman.

At the establish during the Slush inauguration conference in Helsinki, Jolla's carbon monoxide-founder Marc Dillon did his best impression of a preacher man, and boasted about the worldwide distribution network Jolla has built and the continued updates it has shipped for the smartphone. Withal, unmatchable thing he didn't quotatio was how many phones it has sold. That's not something the company will talk about in public, according to Aalto

A new phone doesn't seem to get on the cards, for now.

"We are here to talk nigh the tablet," Aalto said.

Source: https://www.pcworld.com/article/436477/jolla-pitches-sailfish-tablet-against-fleet-of-android-products.html

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