Rogue Nokia splinter cell drops its Jolla phone A-BOMB - Register

Smartphone upstart Jolla - founded by a bunch of ex-Nokia engineers - has finally unveiled a smartphone. The gadget's technical details are few and far between at this moment. The handset itself won't be available until the end of the year, but anyone willing to plonk down €100 can get get in line early for the €399 handset and bag a free t-shirt - along with a clip-on back panel which is a key differentiator for the phone as it completes in a crowded marketplace. Not a Lumia ... the Jolla smartphone The cyan clip-on bit is the "other half" of the handset: a swappable section with its own memory storage and it can change the interface or add content to the phone - a bit like a removable SD card only bigger, brighter and more proprietary. The device runs Sailfish OS, a gesture-controlled platform developed by Jolla and previewed in last November, but as Sailfish is built on top of Google's Linux-powered Android, there's the ability to run Android applications even if the Google Play store of software is unlikely to feature. Google is surprisingly protective of its Android app shop, using it as a way of controlling Android fragmentation; Google can't stop anyone using Android for nothing, but if they want Google Play then they have to follow the Google rules and pay the Google fee. Other than that the world knows very little about Finland-based Jolla's handset. It will feature a 4.5" screen, dual-core processor and replaceable battery, along with 16MB of storage and a microSD slot, we're told. Even those specifications may change, and the price too (although pre-orders are guaranteed it won't go up), which is probably a good thing considering what the competition will likely be offering by then. ® via Technology - Google News http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNFbi75SRH4TduiAuuG-aWHtar1VPQ&url=http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/05/20/jolla_movement/

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