[Interest] Has anyone heard about Jolla?

[Jason H]

I don't get why Nokia would back a potential competitor?



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 From: Lorn Potter <lorn.potter at gmail.com>
To: Jeff Tranter <jtranter at ics.com> 
Cc: interest at qt-project.org 
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 3:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Interest] Has anyone heard about Jolla?
 

On 12/07/2012, at 4:40 AM, Jeff Tranter wrote:

> On 12-07-11 01:46 PM, Joseph Crowell wrote:
>> http://www.linkedin.com/company/jolla
> 
> Yes. Not too many details yet. They don't appear to have a web site up 
> yet but they have the domain name jollamobile.com.
> 
> You can find their press release at a number of sites such as this one:
> http://nokiainnovation.com/2012/07/first-official-jolla-press-release
> 
> Sounds like they will be using Qt and Mer and have been at this since 
> late last year, presumably when they knew that Nokia was dropping MeeGo.

Actually, they got started _because_ Nokia dropped MeeGo, apparently using Nokia's bridge project.
http://www.mobot.net/nokia-jolla-44481

Interview with Jussi Hurmola:

http://www.intomobile.com/2012/07/11/interview-jussi-hurmola-ceo-jollamobile-audio-and-text-available/


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