First Impression: Jolla Smartphone With Sailfish OS

Jolla entered the Indian Smartphone market yesterday by launching the first Jolla Smartphone with its proprietary Sailfish OS. The company was created by ex-Nokia employees after the company abandoned its OS for Microsoft’s Windows Phone OS.

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Device specifications

The phone sports a 4.5-inch 960 x 450 display, 8-megapixel main camera and a 2-megapixel front camera and 16GB of internal storage. The phone is powered by a 1.4GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and is backed by 1GB RAM. It has a replaceable 2100mAh battery, which, as claimed by Jolla, provides up to 10 hours of talk time. The phone is available in Poppy Red, Keira Black and Aloe colours.

As you can see, the device isn’t as powerful as Android handsets available in that range. As a matter of fact, any Indian consumer would rather go for devices under Android One available at a cheaper rate, over Jolla’s first smartphone.  However, Marc Dillon, Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer at Jolla, dismissed the importance to hardware specs by asking how many cores one needs to send an email. While the argument holds true, it needs to be seen whether the Sailfish OS operates smoothly under these specs and doesn’t become a bloatware like Android over a period of time.

Secondly, the device itself is not that huge. With a 4.5 inch display screen, it’s pretty tiny compared to other smartphones available these days, which can be a downer for many consumers who are used to large screens. Another downside is that it’s pretty thick because of its smart back cover. In fact, the back cover gives the device a weird look as if two very think smartphones are stuck together.