Russia to Develop Its Own Mobile Operating System

Russia’s Communications Minister, Nikolai Nikiforov has hold meeting with the representatives of Finland company’s Jolla as well as other representatives from Russia’s IT-industry. The purpose for the meeting is to discuss the development of an independent Russian mobile operating system (OS) in order to solve the issue of the leakage of user’s personal data by current major operating systems as claimed by Edward Snowden.

About a year ago, the head of Ministry of Communications has approached the regional director of Apple in Russia, Peter Nielsen and SAP’s CEO, Vyacheslav Orekhov, and requested the two companies to release their product’s source code. The representatives of Apple and SAP declined to comment on this request.

Jolla is a technology company which is built by former Nokia employees and has created Sailfish OS, a Linux-based operating system. The ownership of Jolla includes both Russian and China shareholder. Apart from Russian and China, it seems like there are a few other countries which will join the project, including Brazil, India and South Africa.

Currently, there are about 95 percent of the phones in Russia are running on Android OS or iOS. By the release of the independent OS, hopefully the number will drop to 50 percent by 2025. Apparently, this is not the first time that Russia attempted to create its own operating system. In late 2011, Ministry of Communications has approved the prototype of Russian Windows which is planned to be used by officials and civil servants.

Russia to Develop Its Own Mobile Operating System

Jolla Launches Crowdfunding Campaign for Its New Tablet

Jolla has been planning to launch its own tablet with compact design, useful features, and decent hardware all with affordable price. The tablet is called Jolla Tablet and runs on Sailfish 2.0 operating system; the same OS is used in the company’s Smartphones launched a year ago.

The company had taken help of Indiegogo to launch its crowdfunding campaign to release its tablet. The company has put a goal of $380,000. It is expected that Jolla would be successful in reaching its goal by seeing that it reached its half goal with few hours after launching the campaign. 1000 units of the tablet are offered in two set, priced at a reasonable amount of $189 and $199 respectively.

The Tablet is made compact with 7.5 millimeters thickness and weighs 384 grams. Its specifications include a 7.85-inch IPS LCD display, 64-bit quad core Intel Atom processor with 1.8 GHz processor, 2GB RAM and storage capacity of 32GB with microSD card support. The tablet offers a 2MP front and 5MP back camera. It is powered by a 4300mAh battery.

Jolla Tablet runs on Sailfish 2.0 OS which is made better to provide better multitasking and usage experience. Its features include ease of switching between apps and all running apps are displayed in a single screen. Users can interact with the apps on the same screen without opening them.

Users can download apps via Jolla Store and the OS also supports Android apps which lets user to run all popular Android apps on their Jolla Tablet. The tablet is set to launch in May next year if crowdfunding campaign becomes successful.

Jolla Launches Crowdfunding Campaign for Its New Tablet

Jolla"s Sailfish OS: Update 8 Will Available In July And Update 9 In August

Saapunki is the freshly released Sailfish OS update 6 and update 7 combo that Jolla has just announced. This update has brought bug fixes, performance improvements and some latest features. However, if you are thinking that Jolla is going to stop, then you are wrong. The company is ready to launch another update in the coming month. Jolla next improvement, update 8, is set to release in the month of July.

The changes that update 8 will bring are given as follow:

•    Separate synchronization schedule for different accounts

•    Multiple files uploading in browser

•    Supporting file filtering by file type

•    Capability to provide per account email signature and sender name

•    When messages app are sent to background, messages saved as drafts

•    Launcher area will get the addition of webpages shortcuts

•    Easy accessibility to write in Chinese

•    Better and advance HTML email viewer

•    Beginners tutorial app has been improved

•    Each Android app displayed in the home screen in its own window

•    In the Store client, search word auto completion provided

•    For generic mail account and Google, enhanced layout is given

It is not sure that all these mentioned changes get completed till July, but it is also expected that Jolla may add some more features.

It has also been announced by the Jolla that update 9 will be available in late August or in the starting dates of September that will have some more additional features to improve your experience with Jolla.

Jolla"s Sailfish OS: Update 8 Will Available In July And Update 9 In August

Many New Features Come Added To Saapunki

If you are not familiar with Jolla, it is an independent designer and developer of various mobile devices. They also developed the open Sailfish operating system. Jolla is headquartered in Helsinki, Finland.

Recently Jolla rolled out its latest upgrade to the Sailfish OS for the Jolla smartphone. This upgrade combines version 6 and 7 to bring many improvements to the Sailfish OS.

Here are some of the things that were included in the Saapunki upgrade:

• Support for 4G network


• Facebook notifications in events view, you can also like and comment posts


• Folder support in app launcher


• Google account synchronization


• Browser tabs now remember last position

Other features include:

• HTML5 supported Web Browser


• Lockscreen Personalization


• Quick access to SailfishOS updates in System Settings


• Support for more bluetooth profiles


• Support for Chinese Handwriting Recognition


• Quick scrolling feature


• Support for SIM and network-specific add-on services

You can visit their website to see the complete list of changes in this upgrade and details about the features included in the upgrade. There are plenty of things on the list.

First recipients of the upgrade were First One cover owners. Other people are expected to get the upgrade soon if they don’t have it already.

This upgrade has appeared a month after upgrade 5 came out. A week before this upgrade was released, Jolla announced that it will be cutting €50 from the retail price of the Jolla. They are already preparing to release upgrade 8 in July which means that plenty of stuff is still yet to come.

Many New Features Come Added To Saapunki

Jolla Price Off €50 Now Costs only €349

The Mobile brand Jolla has launched its new Smartphone named Jolla in the November, 2013 at only €399. However, the Smartphone did not get the exact amount of users that it is expecting to get. But, the regular interval software updates and new features have given the users good outlook of the Smartphone.

Jolla brand is now expecting to have more consumers for the Smartphone with some new features and updates for the users with the Jolla Price Off €50 offer. The official website  of the Jolla has confirmed €50 off price of the Smartphone that will available at only €349.

This Sailfish OS Smartphone will also give you extra €10 off if you are in the exchangeable cover package. More new features and updates news will be available in the official store and website.

Jolla Price Off €50 Now Costs only €349