Engineers who were once employed with Finnish phone-maker Nokia now hope to grab a chunk of the attractive and highly competitive smartphone market with a new smartphone, which is based on the Finnish phone-maker's old software and faintly reminds of its recent models.
The Jolla smartphone's Sailfish platform has emerged from the MeeGo operating software, Nokia's last open-source platform which it abandoned two years ago when it moved over to using Microsoft's Windows system.
The sleek 4.5-inch device, which nearly appears like it could be a member of Nokia's Lumia range, has an eight megapixel camera, provides support to fast 4G Internet connections and includes the successful Nokia's HERE mapping services that cover over 90 countries.
However, unlike Nokia's phones, Jolla can also operate over 85,000 apps provided by Google Inc.'s Android.
Head of Jolla software and one of four founders of the firm in 2011, Marc Dillon, served Nokia for 11 years after relocating from the United States.
The Jolla smartphone's Sailfish platform has emerged from the MeeGo operating software, Nokia's last open-source platform which it abandoned two years ago when it moved over to using Microsoft's Windows system.
The sleek 4.5-inch device, which nearly appears like it could be a member of Nokia's Lumia range, has an eight megapixel camera, provides support to fast 4G Internet connections and includes the successful Nokia's HERE mapping services that cover over 90 countries.
However, unlike Nokia's phones, Jolla can also operate over 85,000 apps provided by Google Inc.'s Android.
Head of Jolla software and one of four founders of the firm in 2011, Marc Dillon, served Nokia for 11 years after relocating from the United States.