How was Jolla 1 created?
asked 2017-03-10 11:39:15 +0200
I would like to hear a story of Jolla 1 (phone) creation. Sort of a postmortem.
How the phone was designed, who took part, who were the hardware designers and were they working at Jolla or was the design outsourced. Is Jolla's phone a unique design or an adaptation of Qualcomm's reference phone design. How much did the hardware development cost.
How was the OEM manufacturer found and what happened after the phones had been manufactured (we know the manufacturer didn't continue making Jolla phones).
What are the difficulties (technical, cost issues) in, for example, updating the phone's design with modern hardware (higher res screen, better camera, new SOC) and manufacturing a new batch. Taking CAD files of the Jolla 1 and updating them. What would be the price of this redesign and how does it compare to the design of the brand new phone.
Maybe some or all of these questions have been answered before on IRC or elsewhere. Or people who could answer them are no longer working at Jolla. Or some of these questions can't be answered because of the NDA. Anyway, I would love to know more of the phone's story.
A new tag
vattuvarg ( 2017-03-10 12:09:50 +0200 )editblogshould be created for this kind of blog suggestions, imho....and I would like to read that story too.
vattuvarg ( 2017-03-10 12:14:50 +0200 )editThe same you can find for Firefox OS :
https://medium.com/@bfrancis/the-story-of-firefox-os-cb5bf796e8fb#.gvosu8t4s
it's an interesting read!
tortoisedoc ( 2017-03-10 13:06:24 +0200 )editAntti Saarnios speach at Slush 2015 gives a quick overview about Jollas Story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjnNvjcrQeo
How about creating a wiki post as an answer here and let the community collect and add all information chronological?! :)
Alex ( 2017-03-10 13:49:36 +0200 )edit@Alex I think it's a great idea!
Hopefully, some of the people from Jolla (or formerly from Jolla) will find some time to participate too.
Flickta ( 2017-03-10 13:54:07 +0200 )edit