Smartphone with Sailfish OS coming soon to India

Finnish mobile startup Jolla, which is building a new OS based on the MeeGo platform with a strong focus on China, has named a new CEO as it moves towards its first product launch ahead of the unveiling of its Sailfish OS next month.

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Jolla Ltd. opened pre-order voucher sales for the first smartphone to run its Sailfish OS, an open source distribution based on the Linux MeeGo project. The dual-core, 4.5-inch Jolla phone features a gesture UI, Android app compatibility, and interchangeable “Other Half” back covers that switch user profiles.

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Jolla – the startup built by the team behind the smartphone OS that Nokia abandoned in favor of Windows Phone — revealed its first big smartphone customer deal today, the mobile operator DNA of Finland.

Both phones are based on Android operating system. However, their prices have not yet been revealed.

The first Alpha SDK has been released for Sailfish, for more information: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...tem&px=MTMxMzI

High-end handsets will always be in demand, but so will the lower-end devices. The latest comes from the Times of India that reveal that Samsung is working on a RS 5,500 ($100) contract free 4G LTE smartphone for Reliance Communications in India. Let me repeat..that’s contract free. We have a number of $100 phones here in the U.S., but they are all with 2 year contracts.

Finnish mobile startup Jolla has announced it will be unveiling its forthcoming MeeGo-based mobile OS — codenamed Sailfish — at an event in Finland next month.

Ativ S, which is Samsung's first Windows Phone 8 smartphone, is expected soon in India as two major online stores have already listed it as coming soon.

I own a Nokia N9 and would like to know if anybody has ported Sailfish to it yet? thanks for any answers!

In case you're not familiar with Sailfish: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailfish_OS