Jolla Tablet

[Jorge-Vieira]

Jolla Opens Pre-Orders For Award-Winning Jolla Tablet

http://media.bestofmicro.com/0/A/521002/gallery/Jolla-Salebox_w_600.jpg (http://www.tomshardware.com/gallery/Jolla-Salebox,0101-521002-0-2-12-1-jpg-.html)Jolla, a mobile device company based in Helsinki, Finland, has announced that pre-orders are now open in limited quantities for the highly anticipated Jolla Tablet running Jolla's operating system, Sailfish 2.0, and powered by an Intel Baytrail processor.
Back in November we covered (http://www.tomshardware.com/news/jolla-tablet-indiegogo-crowdfunding-sailfish,28095.html) the early stages of Jolla's Indiegogo campaign (https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/jolla-tablet-world-s-first-crowdsourced-tablet#/story). At the time, the company had just launched the campaign, but it took mere hours to fulfill its needed goal of $380,000. By December 9, when the window to back Jolla had closed, the company had gone on to secure over $2.5 million to complete the project. Backers were told the shipments of the tablets should be expected in November 2015.
The Jolla tablet features a 7.85-inch display, with a 2048 x 1536 resolution and pixel density of 330 ppi. The processing power is provided by a 1.8 GHz quad-core Intel Baytrail processor, and it comes paired with 2 GB of memory. The Jolla Tablet comes equipped with two cameras, one front facing 2MP camera, and a rear facing 5MP camera.
http://media.bestofmicro.com/0/C/521004/gallery/Jolla-Tablet_w_600.jpg (http://www.tomshardware.com/gallery/Jolla-Tablet,0101-521004-0-2-12-1-jpg-.html)Communication is handled by an 802.11a/b/g/n dual-band Wi-Fi controller, Bluetooth 4.0 and GPS. The device also features an accelerometer, light sensor, gyroscope and a compass.
One of Jolla's differentiating factors is that it runs on its own independent operating system. The company calls its OS "Sailfish 2.0" and bills it as a highly secure platform with no backdoors, and lacking the ability for third parties to monitor your activity. The company values privacy, and it made that one of the tablet's selling points.
Sailfish 2.0 is an independent platform, but it has the ability to run Android apps nonetheless. The company's smartphone shares a similar function. In addition to running Android apps, Jolla Tablet has the ability to multitask. The company said it can display all running applications on one screen, making it easier to see what apps are active, and facilitating switches between applications. Sailfish 2.0 features a gesture-based control system, that the company said makes navigating the OS effortless and fast.
http://media.bestofmicro.com/0/B/521003/gallery/Jolla-Tablet-2_w_600.jpg (http://www.tomshardware.com/gallery/Jolla-Tablet-2,0101-521003-0-2-12-1-jpg-.html)In March, Jolla attended Mobile World Congress 2015 (http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-of-mwc-2015,4086.html) in Barcelona, where it showcased a prototype Jolla Tablet running a build of Sailfish 2.0 to conference attendees. Jolla said it has received many inquiries about where to purchase the tablet since showcasing it. Today it is finally able to offer an answer to that question.
Jolla has announced that a limited number of Jolla Tablets are available for pre-order today, and that the devices are expected to ship as early as October, which is a month before backers were originally expecting their tablets. It seems the extra capital was a blessing for Jolla, as its Indiegogo backers can expect shipments to start in the coming weeks for their own devices.
Two versions of Jolla Tablet are available to order on Jolla's webstore (https://shop.jolla.com/preorder_shop_en): a 32 GB version, and a 64 GB version. Jolla said prices will vary by country, but only provided European pricing of 267€ (VAT 24% incl.) and 299€ (VAT 24% incl.) respectively.



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http://www.tomshardware.com/news/jolla-tablet-availabe-to-pre-order,29896.html

[Jorge-Vieira]

Jolla Tablet project hits the skids
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Backers and buyers of the Jolla Tablet have been told they are unlikely to receive the hardware for which they've paid, despite the company raising around five times its original funding goal.






More than a year after beating its crowd-funding goal, the Jolla Tablet project appears to have reached its end with backers being told they are unlikely to receive the goods for which they have paid.

The flagship product of Jolla Oy, a company founded in 2011 by former Nokia staffers, the Jolla Tablet was to run the company's open-source MeeGo successor Sailfish OS and offer improved security, gesture-based control, and support for many native Android applications to boost the ecosystem. It followed the relatively successful launch of the Jolla Phone, and blew up on crowd-funding site Indiegogo in November 2014 beating its modest $380,000 goal (http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2014/11/20/jolla-tablet-smashes-goal/1) with 20 days to spare.

The project finished in December 2014 well above its goal, and raised further funds in January with the offer of an upgrade to 64GB of storage (http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2015/01/30/jolla-tablet-64gb/1). Following the closure of the campaign, the company also offered the tablet for pre-order direct in its store, raising yet more funds - funds which, the company has now warned, have turned out insufficient.

Despite raising around five times its original goal, Jolla Oy has been forced to cancel shipments of the tablet - even as devices appear for immediate sale and shipment on Chinese wholesale sites. In a blog post entitled New Year's Greetings (https://blog.jolla.com/new-years-greetings-jolla/), Jolla Oy's Juhani Lassila admitted that financial troubles and a higher than expected development cost for Sailfish OS 2.0 mean that few backers will ever receive their tablets. 'The first small batch of Jolla Tablets were shipped in the autumn to our Indiegogo contributors,' Lassila explained in the post, referring to an initial production batch of 300 tablets. 'The project altogether had some serious unexpected setbacks in the autumn, and we were forced to postpone the whole project schedule many times – these were communicated in several blog posts along the summer and autumn.

'We don’t have all pieces of the puzzle figured out just yet, but a few things are now certain: we are happy to say that we will be shipping an additional small batch of the Jolla Tablet to early backers during early 2016, targeting to send invitations during January. The bad news here is that we are not able to complete the production to fulfill all contributions. In other words, all of our backers will not get a Jolla Tablet.'

While Lassila has advised backers and customers that they 'will not end up empty handed,' it is clear that the majority of the 21,644 Indiegogo backers and unknown number of direct pre-order customers are not going to receive the delayed device for which they had been hoping. Details of what they will receive and the precise volume of the next small production run have not yet been released, with many customers commenting on the blog requesting refunds.

Noticia:
http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2016/01/04/jolla-tablet-project-hits-the-skids/1