Thread: JollaMobile : Jolla continues Nokia's excellent work on #MeeGo based smartphones
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2012-07-07 , 20:51
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Originally Posted by Peet View Post
I'm going to wish this endeavour a long and successful life of relative continuity!

Two other wishes: that they don't outsource the manufacturing of the designed devices to sweatshops in some distant dictatorship, and that the carefully choose hardware with open enough specifications so that the devices can be fully supported come hell or high water...
I don't think that the second wish is possible. Last mobile company that had real Western plants was Nokia, not anymore.

To even dream about having manufacturing somewhere here in Europe would need huge scale, or really small amount phones. Components after all are not made anywhere near Europe or North America.

Originally Posted by dietyyli View Post
Great.

But the hardware has to be atleast as good as N9 IMHO.
Will be really interesting to see that hardware. There are small firms who have made some very nice hardware (like the Finnish AAVA mobile mentioned here before), but moving that to any kind of scale and selling the product in some kind of acceptable level (below 1000 euros) is the part where these companies usually seem to fail.

I would imagine these people working on Nokia before would know what to expect and have idea how it all works. Time will tell.

Damn i hope it works for them. Having this kind of firm making lust worthy hardware with open source OS with great UI is my dream.
Last edited by tissot; 2012-07-07 at 20:55.