Jolla’s Sailfish OS based smartphone was launched in India in September, but for its maiden tablet which will sport the Sailfish 2.0 OS, Jolla has one big condition. Jolla wants you, the user, to help it design and fund the tablet. This will make Jolla tablet the first crowd-sourced tablet. It already has a page up on Indiegogo and of the $380,000 target, almost 89% of it has been reached, with 21 days still to go. Looks like Jolla will easily meet the financial target.
While funding is one aspect, the other aspect is designing the tablet. For that Jolla will take suggestions from users with regards to features and the best ideas which get the maximum up-votes will be implemented. These features will most likely be software features, as Jolla has pretty much decided on the hardware.
The Jolla tablet will sport a 7.85-inch display having a 2048 x 1536 pixel resolution, a 64-bit Intel quad-core processor, 32GB of upgradeable memory, a 4,300mAh capacity battery and a 3MP rear camera. The pricing is expected to start at $189 or approx Rs 11,700.
The Finnish company seems to be concentrating on keeping things minimal. It is seen on the design of the tablet, which is shorn off any buttons. The navigation will be using hand gestures. The Jolla tablet will work with Android layer on top of the native Sailfish apps which will allow you to run Android apps alongside native apps. It stresses on the ease of multi-tasking on the Indiegogo page, “Multitasking on Sailfish OS shows all your running apps conveniently in one single view. At a glance, you’ll see everything that’s going on, as well as easily switch between apps.” You can also find a comparison of Jolla tablet along with iPad mini 3, Nexus 9 and Nokia N1
If you are impressed with the advertisement above, you can pre-order it for $189 and it will be delivered by May 2015. But Sailfish OS still has to prove its mettle considering it isn’t as popular as the other established players. We had a chance to play around with the Jolla Sailfish OS smartphone when it had launched in India. You can read about our experience here.
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