The Aqua Fish is following Jolla’s “traditional” design which was found on the Jolla smartphone.
The phone sports a namely modest but practically beastly (according to my testings), Quadcore 1.3Ghz Qualcomm Snapdragon 212 (don’t let the 200-series name fool you. We’ll get to that in a moment!), 2GB od DDR3 RAM, 16GB of expandable storage, 5″ HD IPS display panel with a resolution of 1280×720, a 2500mAh battery and dual-SIM support, all packaged in a neat package of black and orange plastic.
This looks a lot like the phone Jolla should’ve made halfway 2014 as a successor to the original Jolla phone instead of that silly tablet most of us are still waiting on and that nearly tanked the company. Sadly, this one will only be available in India for now, and there’s no word on further availability.
I’m glad there’s 3rd party interest in Sailfish OS, but I’m afraid the window’s already closed on this one.
Although I have never used Sailfish OS, it’s a shame this probably won’t catch on, it’d be nice to have some choice in the phone market…
Maybe the Jolla phone will be cheap enough to buy as a “mess around” phone.
Again, the same gloat tone. Sorry for referencing myself, but my comment from http://www.osnews.com/permalink?625220 applies here as well.
And guess what? No, this window is not closed, because there still are people who use Sailfish OS, and who are probably even happy to see third-party hardware after noticing that Jolla never really handled hardware part well enough. My Jolla works fine and needs no replacement ATM, but I will most likely buy another Sailfish-based device when I’ll need another phone.
I was just about to say something similar.
I know this is seen as Thom’s blog , and sure de facto – it is.
But I rather the editorial take was a little more “this seems to have merit because A, B..” ; “whereas this is a bit of a rehash of old concepts C, D, and E and surely a bit late late to market – however it’s been very well executed and should appeal to the existing core market”.
Basically I find the guess work about success and failure just very depressing. It’s very negative a lot of the time. Please leave headspace for all efforts to find some (perhaps unanticipated) success.
I’d read the economic or financial press if I wanted to focus on outlooks and outcomes. I’m a believer in aspirational side of technology – I enjoy that fantasy. Please don’t continuously take it away so often.
Yes, you probably right. But let’s allow those who try have a bit more digital hope… .maybe?
Sailfish so far is missing being open source. I hope it will happen. That’s the only “window” that matters here.
A bit delusional, aren’t you? The only thing that matters? If you’re going to go on about open source let’s get to the part that really matters: modem firmware and boot loader. I couldn’t care less if the operating system is open or not seeing as how the firmware could be doing anything behind my back even if I verified the operating system and compiled it myself.
I meant matters to the OS. Bootloader and firmware (you probably mean baseband) aren’t controlled by Sailfish. I agree those are important to be open. But it’s up to hardware makers.
These kinds of comments are the reason that I love reading OSNews. Thom has knowledge and experience in the field of technology far greater than I do. He tells things like it is and, in my experience, is generally correct in his conclusions and predictions. It’s nice for me because I can become so emotionally attached to a piece of technology and hope that it is thriving, when the reality might be much different.
I love my Jolla mobile. It’s the closest thing to a successor to my beloved Nokia N900. I wish Jolla (the company) was doing better in regards to finances, third party support, and applications, but even with my limited knowledge I can see that they’re struggling.
But even if that is the case, nothing that happens to Jolla will make the phone in my pocket magically just stop working. I still have it, still use it, and still love it.
The new phone looks pretty.
But it runs Sailfish 2. 
And I still haven’t forgiven Jolla for the changes they made to the user interface…
that silly tablet most of us are still waiting on
You still haven’t heard anything?
Some people posting on the Jolla Blog have reported positive results with charge-back attempts through PayPal or their credit card companies. I’m afraid that most are beyond the deadline for that though.
Some people have also had success with ordering the Jolla tablets from China,
http://world.taobao.com/item/525258878357.htm
including on person who’s posted screenshots of the Sailfish OS. Apparently he was able to specify which OS, SF or Android, when ordering.
Does this phone have it?
With what do you expect it to converge?
There are only bad spirits in every community and every life that dies totally. Look at AMIGA which have been dead several times by ANY media out there just to PROOVE that the platform is highely active WITH or WITHOUT any powermoneyhungry company behind. AMIGA lives on more than anything because its created by the DREAMERS and VISIONARIES. The PC scene is just doing what everyone else DID over 25 YEARS ago, but still struggles to compete with AMIGA on -multitasking- -boot times- -responsivnes- -configurity-… and this goes on and on for so many out there. The PC scene have wanted the Amiga scene dead, and dead and dead.. but AMIGA lives on more than anything out there. It is a proof of a strong community that have brought a dead machine to 2016! Jolla and its Sailfish OS is such spirit as AMIGA is, so it will NEVER DIE! Jolla is the same bad case as with COMMODORE. Bad leadership, customer service that is non-working at all and visionaries dreaming too much before actually doing the rights things.
If there is something that Jolla and Sailfish OS got it is spirit but Jolla is damaging it like Medhi Ali at Commodore did. Its unfortune to see this happen as none of the biggest mobile OSes deserves to be either 1st or 2nd in popularity. They are just like all of the other massive popular OSs like Windows, OSX and Linux! People believe in so much bu***t in the media about whats good or not. And media writes ONLY about things that is selling, not about things that is absolutely the best. And this is why Blackberry which got QNX on their smartphones decided to change to Android. People dont think twice,.. but just reads.
I dont like the situation were in, but I need to use what everyone else does OR I will be seen as the weird one. Telling people about my love for Amiga, Dreamcast, Sailfish OS or even BlackBerry OS 10 makes the person in the street big eyed or not interested at all. People are too much controlled by the media and this will lead to our doom in the end. The small pioneers should be the biggest ones and not the ones forced on people.