Back
in April, Finnish startup company Jolla announced that they will start shipping
their first smartphone – the Jolla towards the end of 2013. And as we approach
the last month of the year, the first ever Sailfish OS-powered smartphone is
now available in stores.
The Jolla phone costs €399 in Finland and comes with a
4.5-inch qHD IPS display with 5-point multi-touch and protected by a layer of
Corning Gorilla glass 2 panel. The smartphone is powered by a Qualcomm
Snapdragon 400 chip with a 1.4GHz dual-core Krait CPU. It also has an Adreno 305 GPU, 1GB of RAM and
16GB of on-board storage which can be expanded via a microSD card slot.
In the imaging department, the Jolla phone boasts an 8MP
camera with LED flash at the back and a 2MP camera at the front.
As with other smartphones, connectivity features include Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth v4.0 with EDR HS, USB 2.0 and an extension interface for wireless NFC. The Sailfish OS comes with Nokia’s Here Maps as well as access to over 85,000 Android applications through its pre-installed Yandex store.
The Jolla smartphone, which is available in 9 colours will
initially be available in Finland, but Jolla says it will be rolling to 135
more countries in the near future.
