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Jolla Smartphone, the Sailfish OS Based Device for India Unwrapped

Not a big time will have been spent, when the news for the invite of the newest Sailfish OS based smartphone had flow in the air. The invite which is describing its India arrival on September 23, has finally been reached to India to lure customers with its gesture based UI. Jolla, a company of few former Nokia employees has introduced Sailfish OS powered handset and given it the name, Jolla.

The smartphone is priced at Rs. 16,499 which is exclusively available on Snapdeal to buy. This Jolla smartphone was first unveiled in November 2013 and then proceeded to India to set their feet in one of the biggest smartphone markets. Well, the device is now out and the makers are waiting for the response.

A couple of Ex-Nokia people came together and formed a Company, made an OS and named it Sailfish OS, which you can consider as a reincarnation of Company’s Linux based Meego platform. All of you are familiar with Android, iOS, Windows and Blackberry. But, there are some more OS also available to give you a better experience. Here is the specification and some other features of this handset for those unwitting people.

Jolla smartphone comes equipped with changeable back covers and first 90 buyers of this handset can receive a VIP box with Aloe, Poppy Red, and Keira Black color back covers for free. Featuring a 4.5-inch Estrade display, this device offers 540x960 pixels resolution. It is powered by 1.4GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and 1GB of RAM to provide fast and smooth performance.

On the camera side, it is touted with 8-megapixel autofocus rear camera to give quality output with LED flash. On the other side, a 2-megapixel front-facing camera is also paired in smartphone. Penning out few more specifications of this Sailfish OS based handset for you which are describing about its 2100mAh battery, 16GB inbuilt storage and microSD card slot. This Jolla handset can support around 85,000 of Android apps using Yandex and Aptoide Stores. It comes with 4G connectivity. This handset is already available in Finland and Europe to buy.