Comments on: Jolla – Half the story

By: tatilsever

tatilsever — Wed, 22 May 2013 17:08:46 +0000

At the low end of the market, is there that much clamoring to get out from underneath Google? I suspect most handsets do not need to get early access to the latest Android version. The hardware is necessarily gonna be lagging behind the cutting edge, so they are not gonna be able to run the latest version anyways and waiting a year or whatever until the source code becomes public may not be a big deal.

By: windsorr

windsorr — Wed, 22 May 2013 07:51:49 +0000

It is because Jolla is a proposition with nothing behind it. There is no ecosystem to speak of. You can get Android apps via an emulator but that is not optimal. Outside of Finland, no one has heard of it. At $520 it is coming at the same price as a Lumia 820, iPhone 4, Samsung Galaxy Siii and a Bbery z10 (in some regions). These guys are all established brands and have an ecosystem offering. Jolla must price below this to get users interested. Jolla is unlikley to attract a handset subsidy from operators.

Furtherore in China almost all of the handset buyers are pryiced out at this price and this is supposed to be Jolla’s main targert market.

By: onion

onion — Wed, 22 May 2013 06:21:51 +0000

I don’t understand this talk about the price at all. All other major phones are almost double the price, (Z10 620€, iPhone5 688-930€).
399€ is cheap for a proper smartphone, I was expecting the price to be somewhere around 500€ but the price was a very pleasant surprise for me.

By: What

What — Tue, 21 May 2013 13:27:19 +0000

How is that price steep? That’s just barely over one half of what iPhone 5 or SGS4 costs. Standard price for iPhone 5 16GB is about $900 and SGS4 is little less. I think $540 is an excellent price point for a high-end device.