諾基亞(Nokia)的前 MeeGo N9 小組員工們稍早前宣布成立一家名為 Jolla Oy的獨(dú)立智能手機(jī)產(chǎn)品開發(fā)商。這家位在芬蘭赫爾辛基的新創(chuàng)公司已宣布和中國(guó)最大的手機(jī)連鎖店迪信通集團(tuán)(D.Phone Group)簽署了銷售和經(jīng)銷協(xié)議。 Jolla希望能達(dá)到每年在中國(guó)銷售1.5億支智能手機(jī)的目標(biāo)。
N9是諾基亞的智能手機(jī),采用 MeeGo 操作系統(tǒng),但諾基亞在2011年宣布放棄MeeGo,轉(zhuǎn)而擁抱微軟(Microsoft)的Windows Phone。 MeeGo 是基于Linux的開放原始碼手機(jī)操作系統(tǒng),主要用于行動(dòng)設(shè)備。
Jolla 在芬蘭語(yǔ)中的意思是小艇,這家公司計(jì)劃設(shè)計(jì)、開發(fā)和銷售MeeGo智能手機(jī)。該公司成立于2011年,擁有投資者和合作伙伴,并預(yù)計(jì)2012年稍晚推出智 慧手機(jī)。該公司同時(shí)表示,其操作系統(tǒng)是由MeeGo演變而來,并使用了稱之為Mer的核心和Qt技術(shù),還將納入創(chuàng)新的用戶界面。
Jolla 這個(gè)名字的由來,可能是因?yàn)?011年2月,諾基亞CEO Stephen Elop 將諾基亞比喻為迫使工作人員跳海逃生的起火中的石油鉆井平臺(tái)。
Jolla的高層主管包括CEO Jussi Hurmola、主席兼銷售暨業(yè)務(wù)開發(fā)副總裁Antti Saarnio Sami Pienimaki、信息長(zhǎng)Stefano Mosconi,以及營(yíng)運(yùn)長(zhǎng)Marc Dillon。
“諾基亞曾經(jīng)創(chuàng)造出世界上最美好、最神奇的智能手機(jī)。這是值得延續(xù)的,我們將共同努力,把MeeGo的成功故事繼續(xù)演繹下去,”Jussi Hurmola在一份聲明中表示。
據(jù)報(bào)導(dǎo),該公司現(xiàn)有約50名員工,并從諾基亞方面獲得了一些支持。
不過,Jolla的網(wǎng)站(www.jollamobile.com)目前連不上去,在http://twitter.com/jollamobile和http://www.linkedin.com/company/2649185上可以看到一些該公司目前的動(dòng)態(tài)。
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MeeGo smartphone firm emerges from Nokia
Peter Clarke
LONDON – Former employees from Nokia's MeeGo N9 organization have formed an independent smartphone product company called Jolla Oy (Helsinki, Finland). The company has announced a sales and distribution agreement with D.Phone Group, the largest chain of mobile phone shops in China. Jolla said the companies have agreed targets for sales volume in China's 150 million unit per year smartphone market.
N9 is a smartphone from Nokia that runs the MeeGo operating system but Nokia announced in 2011 it was dropping MeeGo to focus on the Windows Phone operating system from Microsoft. MeeGo is a Linux-based open source mobile operating system targeted at a range of mobile devices.
Jolla, which means dinghy in Finnish, plans to design, develop and sell MeeGo-derived smartphones. The company has said it was formed in 2011, has investors and partners and has been developing a smartphone to be launched later in 2012. The operating system has evolved from MeeGo using technologies called Mer Core and Qt and will include in innovative user interface, the company said.
The company name could be a reference to the occasion in February 2011 when Nokia CEO Stephen Elop likened Nokia to a burning oil platform that would force workers to jump into the sea.
Jolla's senior executives are CEO Jussi Hurmola, chairman Antti Saarnio Sami Pienimaki, vice president of sales and business development; Stefano Mosconi, chief information officer and chief operating officer Marc Dillon.
"Nokia created something wonderful – the world's best smartphone product. It deserves to be continued, and we will do that together with all the bright and gifted people contributing to the MeeGo success story," said Jussi Hurmola, in a statement.
The company has about 50 employees and received help from Nokia as part of redundancy support program to form the company, according to reports.
Interestingly Jolla has emerged without sharing detail of its website, which is thought to be www.jollamobile.com.
With regard to the internet the company can be found on Twitter and LinkedIn and http://twitter.com/jollamobile and http://www.linkedin.com/company/2649185, respectively.
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