Friday 27 March 2015

#MWC15 Interview: Jolla Community as a marketing channel

[video] Carol Chen, Community Chief at Jolla
Part 3 / 3 on the marketing theme


March 5, 2015, Mobile World Congress, Barcelona: This is the last part of a video interview trilogy on theme "Community Marketing". We started a discussion with Carol Chen about a company as part of it's own community, went on with Juhani Lassila on branding, and now we try to bring this into final with another discussion with Carol. Watch all three to get into the big picture - is B2C changing to P2P ?

Wednesday 25 March 2015

#MWC15 Interview: Global Expanding - Getting Jolla brand known worldwide

[video] Juhani Lassila, Head of Communications at Jolla
Part 2 / 3 on the marketing theme


March 5, 2015, Mobile World Congress, Barcelona: Discussion with Juhani Lassila enlightens us on values, channels and 3rd parties as part of Jolla's marketing plan. In the end, I've added 5 questions from our readers, starting at 13th minute.

Monday 23 March 2015

Sailfish OS update 12 - More details

System update for Jolla phone, second info. Sailfish OS 1.1.4.x Äijänpäivänjärvi

Jolla has shared more information about the next Sailfish OS update 12, including one pretty nasty downgrade, not caused by Jolla, but by Facebook!

Saturday 21 March 2015

User reviews: Applications provided by Jolla

Your Review of Jolla Phone gathered opinions on the essential apps


After about 150 reviews on Sailfish OS apps provided by Jolla, it's time to share the first averages, now reliable enough. Please keep up contributing, this will surely help Jolla in prioritizing their development

Thursday 19 March 2015

Sailfish OS system update 12 - First info

System update for Jolla phone, first info of update 12. What to expect?

Jolla has shared information about the next Sailfish OS update 12, including the schedule, name and the main features. The next update is bringing us for example a landscape view in Maps application and split to the keyboard. What to expect and when?

Wednesday 18 March 2015

Jolla accounts down for maintenance

[Minor warning] Short service break tonight

All Jolla accounts in our phones, Jolla Store and jolla.com goes down for a while tonight at midnight (March 19, 0:00 UTC). This break shouldn't last longer than approximately 30 minutes. During this maintenance, it's difficult/impossible to:
  • update your phone
  • update or install apps on Jolla Store
  • login to jolla.com websites
Read more at TJC

Jolla phone update: Sailfish OS 1.1.2.16 Yliaavanlampi

Jolla system update 11

Sailfish OS Yliaavanlampi was first released to test users, and after a few weeks of feedback, to all users on March 3rd, 2015. What's new, what's still missing?

Note: Please ensure that you have ~1.5GB of free disk space before attempting to upgrade your Jolla

Please give your opinion of this update, we have already more than 1000 valuable user opinions, but it's not enough for the final purpose ;)

Monday 16 March 2015

#MWC15 Photos: People Powered Jolla Booth

[Photos] People Powered Jolla stand,
Mobile World Congress 2015


Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. Jolla's stand was in the middle of Hall 1, and the interest towards them was quite strong compared to the other stands around. Trying to share the feeling there with this set of photos:

#MWC15 Interview: Jolla Oy as a member of its own community

[video] Carol Chen, Community Chief at Jolla
Part 1 / 3 on the marketing theme


March 5, 2015, Mobile World Congress, Barcelona: This is a first part of a video interview trilogy on theme "Community Marketing". We start with a discussion with Carol Chen about a company as part of it's own community, especially the differences joining to community work as individual sailors and as a business oriented company.

Friday 13 March 2015

#MWC15 Interview: Jolla and Sailfish OS brands, global expanding


[video] Mikko Pyykkö, Head of Sales at Jolla Oy

Sailfish OS brand is getting more important to Jolla than the company brand itself. But why has it been slow to enter new markets? Are there new partners joining the sails soon? Mikko shares some of the problems on the sails so far, but he talks strong about a brighter future: "We'll soon see Sailfish OS devices all around the world", "Sailfish is faster than Ubuntu"

Thursday 12 March 2015

The Best Tablet at #MWC15 is Jolla Tablet

Jolla Tablet awarded by Trusted Reviews

Thursday, March 5 2015, on the last day of Mobile World Congress there was a reason for celebration at Jolla Booth:

Jolla Tablet, running on Sailfish OS 2.0 (not yet released), got awarded as The Best Tablet of the whole event by Trusted Reviews. You can really see the pride and happiness in these photos (license for sharing available below)

Tuesday 10 March 2015

#MWC15 Interview: Porting Sailfish OS to Android phones


[video] Interview with Simonas Leleiva, including camera test with Sailfish OS 2.0 on Nexus 5

Barcelona, Tuesday, March 3, 2015: Interview with Simonas (alias sledges) at Jolla booth during Mobile World Congress, we discussed on porting Sailfish OS mobile operating system by Jolla to different Android models. In the end, you can also find a camera test with LG Nexus 5 running on Sailfish OS 2.0 latest ported version

Wednesday 4 March 2015

Hello from Mobile World Congress 2015

Two days so far, two more to go

In short: It's been great so far around Jolla booth, looking forward for the last two days. Follow up!

Reason for the short post, and some photos below:

Sunday 1 March 2015

[URGENT] Warning of Open Repos app

Risk to loose everything in home directory

Dangerous app: Alien Dalvik Cleanup
When used on: Sailfish OS 1.1.2.x
READ MORE (TJC post)

Who to Follow during #MWC15 on SailfishOS and Jolla

Mobile World Congress 2015 starts tomorrow. Get closer!

The First One is already out! This image was shared by @XQ55 on Twitter -->

We've asked people to post their profiles, if they are sharing LIVE updates from Barcelona during the MWC15 event on March 2-5, 2015.