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Re:Jolla Tablet by yitchelle on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @05:47AM (#8629276)
“Jolla seeks to revive Nokia platform.”

I am confuse. Is this the Nokia N1 in a different guise?

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Re:Jolla Tablet by experimental- on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @07:27AM (#8629606)
The Nokia platform would be that which we used to call Maemo in the past (currently Mer, behind Sailfish OS). Nokia no longer uses it.
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Re:Jolla Tablet by otuutti on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @06:00AM (#8629322)
No. Jolla is a bunch on ex- Nokia people who wanted to keep working on their then-current project.

Nokia allegedly started working on N1 when Microsoft deal went through.

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Re:Jolla Tablet by seanmcdirmid on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @07:33AM (#8629628)
I've heard the N1 is mostly Foxconn with some software (zlauncher) and industrial design from Nokia.
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Re:Jolla Tablet by mempko on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @08:45AM (#8629929)
sounds like every apple product.
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Re:Jolla Tablet by dagw on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @08:55AM (#8629981)
Well no. Foxconn only does manufacturing for Apple. In this case Foxconn also handles sales and distribution and even much of the actual electronics/hardware design. Think of it as Nokia is to Foxconn as Nexus is to Asus/LG/Motorola
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Re:Jolla Tablet by ganzuul on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @09:22AM (#8630112)
This is likely referring to Qt. They use Wayland too, and these platform-ish things appear to be paving the way for Linux on the desktop.
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