I continue translating Finnish articles

This one is from IT-viikko (roughly translated IT-week). There is interesting part about the patents and that Nokia might have given some patents for people leaving the company..

http://www.itviikko.fi/teknologia/20...us/201233217/7


Does Jolla have a solution to shortage of applications? "An interesting response"

Jolla, founded onto the ruins of Nokias MeeGo, is not saying how the company will get enough applications for their upcoming Jolla-device and operating system. CEO of Jolla says in an interview, made by IT-week, that the company is considering a break from the formerly known device categories.

Mobile phone manufacturer Jollas CEO Jussi Hurmola remains silent about the ways how their MeeGo based operating system will compete with the amount of applications against Googles Android and Apples iOS.

"It is quite clear that we need to have the answer to this question. And we have one but it is, however, that much interesting that we will tell it upon the release", Hurmola smiles secretly.

Hurmola does not want to comment on whether the applications built for Nokia N9 will work with their Jolla-devices or is Jolla trying to create completely new ecosystem of their own.

The amount and the quality of the Third-party applications determine the extent the popularity of smart phones. For example, Nokia and Microsoft are stepping up the Microsoft Phone in application development with millions of euros.

Jolla said this weekend that it will publish this year a new MeeGo-based Smartphone. The company is based on the former people of nokia, who worked with Nokia's likely to remain as the only MeeGo phone, the Nokia N9.

According to Hurmola, the negotiations with manufacturers have gone a long way. Jolla is going to tell soon who is the manufacturer for their devices.

"I want to thank Nokia"

Jolla is one of the companys, which are founded within Nokias Bridge -program. Bridge -program is targeted to people who have been or are at risk of getting fired.

"I would definitely like to thank Nokia. Nokia and Jolla is in a good and open relationship", Hurmola says.

"Jolla is founded inside the Nokias Bridge -programs incubator. At that time we presented our strategy and received approval to it from Nokia", he continues.

Nokia has also shared their patents for people leaving the company, so that they could ground new business activity with the patents.

At the time, Jolla has approximately 50 workers in Tampere and in Helsinki. Hurmiola believes that at the end of year privately financed Jolla will employ over 100 people.

"We are considering a break with"

In addition with the first phone coming later this year, Jolla is already planning for the next following phone models. Hurmola says that Jolla "is listening very strongly the signals coming from the market."

"We are considering a serious break with from the so-called smartphones. But first we however will do our phone that is released later this year", he says.

"My own opinion is that the categories of devices are changing every year. Also the amount of smartphone users is increasing all the time. It is interesting to see what kind of new device categories there will be in the market in near future"