Jolla Tablet: Why should you wait for a tablet which is neither Android nor Apple?

Jolla, a 120 odd people company which launched its flagship Jolla smart phone a while back is all set to come out with a tablet, unlike every other. To give you an perspective, Jolla sourced more than 200% of its required funding in less than 24 hours in its Indiegogo Campaign.

The Specs

Jolla plans to price it for $249 for the market but the Indiegogo funders can get it for around $200. The product is a complete value for money with the amazing gesture based Sailfish OS, 5 MP rear and 2 MP front camera and a 4300 mAh battery.

The hardware boasts of 64-bit Intel quad-core processor, 2GB of RAM, 32GB of internal memory (also expandable) and a 7.85-inch display with a resolution of 2048×1536.

The OS

The dominating feature of the product, apart from those mentioned above is not the hardware but the OS that it runs. The Jolla tablet runs on the Sailfish OS while being an open source OS having its own APIs and SDKs runs all the Android apps as well.

Sailfish was developed by a group of ex-Nokia employees, Antti Saarnio, Sami Pienimäki, Marc Dillon and Stefano Mosconi who left the company in October 2011, to find the start up. They took the decision when Nokia picked up Windows as a platform and abruptly dropped the plan of developing ‘MeeGo’, which was supposed to be the successor to Nokia’s Symbian operating system.

The Wait

Now that their Indiegogo campaign has become successful, Jolla plans to ship the tablet by May 2015. Till now the company has identified EU, Norway, Switzerland, United States, India, China, Hong Kong and Russia as the geographies for shipping but you can always go to their request page and add your country for consideration.

The thing that sticks with you about Jolla is, it is not a company that plans to kill Apple, Android or Windows. It seeks to provide an equal if not better alternative to the world and that is why the wait seems worth.