Thread: Jolla Sales/Success?
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2014-09-23 , 17:57
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Originally Posted by bluefoot View Post
Agree, but I feel like they sidetracked themselves with things like the Jolla Launcher (now delayed), TOH and choosing to go with a bespoke (low quality) phone after the ST-E / Ericsson withdrawal instead of a good quality off the shelf design from a Chinese OEM. For such a small company they gave themselves far too much to do, in my view. I hope some of the management issues from the old Nokia didn't creep into the new company, but focus and priorities do seem a little funky.
Maybe they do need more focus but this is their first year with a product and any company is likely to be all over the place.

The Jolla phone doesn't appear to be either massively bespoke or low quality though.

I may be doing the Jolla hardware designers a disservice here but it appears to be pretty much an off the shelf reference design Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 Android handset shoehorned into the shell of the ST-E handset design they had before manufactured by BenQ IIRC. I really don't want to belittle that as I'm perfectly happy with it.

Quality wise, I've had zero issues too but appreciate others haven't had the same experience.