A team of engineers who worked on the MeeGo operating system forNokia before it was ditched in favour of Microsoft Windows has launched its first smartphone since leaving the company to continue their work.
Finland-based Jolla was founded by ex-Nokia engineers in 2011 and will this week begin selling an eponymous smartphone for around €399 (£333). Just 450 units were available at a launch event in Finland last night, destined for those who placed early pre-orders.
The Jolla has a 4.5in display with multi-touch and rugged Gorilla 2 Glass. On the back you get an eight megapixel camera with an LED flash, and on the front a two megapixel sensor for video chats.
Jolla claims talk-time of up to ten hours over 3G or 4G LTE, and there is a 1.4GHz dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage which can be boosted via a microSD card slot.
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