Jolla Mobile buys Jolla.com
It was one of the first things we were looking for but now it seems Jolla have purchased the Jolla.com domain.
Apparently the price was $50,000. Quite a high sum though not as high given the importance to the company. At 50k, that apparently made it the 10th most expensive deal in July.
I don’t think there’s a site yet (not that I would know as my mobile bandwidth is now on restricted mode for using so much. Hopefully I’ll be connected to broadband tomorrow).
Source: DigitalToday
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nope, no site yet, i’d wait a couple of months b4 we have a good one
According to HS (Helsingin Sanomat) Jolla bought the domain to protect their increasing brand value. Not a single word when the site is ready. Twitter is the best source so far.
Just 10 minutes ago I tried to connect to jolla.com, lol speaking of coincidence. Twitter is a good source of info, but sooner or later they’ll need a website.
i wait to see jolla phone before getting nokia 808 pureview
You could be waiting well into next year,
They’re making a announcement before the years end, not a launch.
Which hopefully means a device or two no more than 6mth later.
Still don’t see how this news are related to Nokia.
this blog will soon change to MJB…
Its already infected by MWB!
So far Jolla has been nothing more than Vaporware in its purest form. There is only some vague plan and the sentiment that it embodies what Nokia used to be.
Other than that they have nothing that would actually increase their brand value or even desireability for one of their devices. Heck, there isn’t even one, not even a concept, not drawings or imperession of either HW or SW. Actually Jolla is even worse then Vaporware right now.
It could become something, but they will need to be concrete in the coming months with plans etc. as to not lose interest of the public.
They have a super qualified team of engineers and they have a strong base with Meego. They must succeed.
You can relax, the co. was only 1st revealed publicly 1-2mth ago.
And they’ve made it clear that they’re not announcing anything till the yrs end.*
They haven’t made any promises that they’ve not delivered, so what’s the problem?
You dont think they should be building-up some awareness in the interim?
That’s pretty standard fare, they would be dumb not doing so…
*n.b. announce, not deliver, ANNOUNCE.
I wish them all the best, but the telecoms world moves fast. Announce your existence now and don’t deliver anything and your forgotten by nightfall.
Especially with the ramping up of the iPhone 5 and WP8 devices along with a barrage of new Androids coming this year alone it will be pretty hard for Jolla to really get any attention. They will have to do something amazing.
Again, I wish them all the best, but there is such a great risk of the dream just fizzling out before it really ignited.
At least they don’t have to worry about WP8 as it will continue in WP7′s footsteps of failure.
According to them that was the reason why they tweeted about Meego in the first place. Everyone knew that PR 1.3 was the last update for N9 and they wanted to let the community know, that there will be future for Meego/Mer and Qt. It is clear that the interest they received was far beyond their expectation.
With good communication they can keep up with the interest: start with N9Seconds type of campaing that can last for a month to give hints what the UX is going to be like. The UX does not need to be finalized for it.
Then continue with UX, partnershipsm HW specs and finally the whole device. They can keep the interest for several months.
i know jolla is ex-nokia employees, but isn’t supposed to be a competitor for nokia? and if so, why you are advertising it? i think, at this critical period for nokia, we should only post just nokia stuff, am i wrong?
Jolla is reflects the true software engineering talent of Nokia. Jolla is Nokia without the middle management.
You mean the engineers that have been producing Nokia’s OSs for the past few years? Because those engineers produced a lot of sh*t (including S60V5, the responsible OS for Nokia’s current situation).
Windows Phone is responsible for their current situation. The company was highly profitable under S60v5.
lol. i wish it looked as simple to me as it does for some…
How can you be so limited and blind?
S60V5 sold well because by then people trusted Nokia. But the people who bought those phones are the same that found them a great sh*t and decided to replace them by Androids and iPhones because they stopped trusting Nokia at that time.
Symbian was forced to carry legacy code on slow processors, and the sad part was that Symbian was forced carry a lot of untalented stupid middle management. In conclusion Symbian was one of the reasons Nokia was moving towards Meego.
Now dude go read the press, Jolla’s talented Linux team has gained attention and respect worldwide.
jolla team are from maemo team, not symbian team. nokia never give them chance for developing mass market products, so, who knows? we’ll see.
but sorry, I will not enter your beloved MS prison (a.k.a. ecosystem)!
A lot of the devs including the CEO has in fact worked for S60 as well.
The problem never was the competence of the devs. The software development was ill-managed in silos, they messed up with Symbian foundation who were not market oriented, they changed direction every once in a while, had too rigid approval processes for features, were too cost conscious, strangled their subcontractors, spread the developments in too many places globally, had outdated development and qiality methods and processes when devs were proposing better ones, re-organized every half a year etc.
As part of N9 development, Nokia learned leaner methods and used subcontractors more wisely and were able to show results fast. Following that path and using ready-made code as much as possible, they can create something fast. HW competence can be bought. Nokia and others did good job educating and outsourcing manufacturing and HW desing to Foxconn et al.
It’s a competitor for Nokia in the same way Ubuntu is a competitor for windows.
I am all for Jolla and will buy one, but I have no illusions as to how much success they will ultimately have (once html5 takes off, this could change)
Exactly! Jolla is insignificante for the industry but if anything, they are Nokia’s competitors. I don’t see you guys here creating posts about Android or iOS devellopments.
This Nokia that exist today is nothing more than a Microsoft subsidiary. It’s not the Nokia we became fan of. It’s only Nokia by name. Nokia died when Elop killed all of Nokia’s own platforms, kicked off its engineering talent and sold…no…practically gave its soul to MS. Jolla is looking like the real Nokia now.
Yes! The big Nokia lives on Jolla now
Just skip this post if you are not interested in Jolla. simple.
+1000
Ha ha! Jolla is hardly competitor for Nokia. Outside of the bridge plan, I’d say they will likely be more a partners.
Jolla promised new device(s) in the autumn – whet if they partner with Nokia, and provides the well awaited N9 successor?
Dreams, sweet dreams…
Looking forward to what they come up with on that. Talented for sure. I really hope they can partner with Nokia. Access to Nokia’s imaging and mapping prowess and a license to use CBD would definitely make them more competitive. Maybe they can even resurrect app store carrier billing as Nokia seems to have dropped it climbing on board with WP7.5-8.
@zlutor
Source for this?
I’ve never seen any 100% confirmation from them that device(s) will be on shelves in Autumn.
They’ve only ever said they’re making a formal announcement before the end of the yr.
Announcement != product on shelves, normally that comes no more than 3mth later -ideally.
That Jolla pays 50k for the website means that ‘ Jolla’ will be the serious brand-name and is no code-name.
Yup.. we’ll see how well that rolls of the tongue in some countries..
@Jay Montano, when do you buy ‘myjollablog.com’?
If this is high price then – how this is in comparison to windows marketing costs?