Jolla-launch event on 27.11.2013 – part 1

Here is my report with some images and videos from the #Jolla launch event on 27th of Nov 2013 at Helsinki, Finland.

I was privileged to attend the launch event and the presss event too by having made the pre-book of my #Jolla device ton 20th of May 2013. Also @JollaTides and Timo with Carol Chen from Jolla provided me with a press acess to the event so you’ll have here also some coveraage from that part of event, too.

Arriving at the site

I travelled from Lapland to the Helsinki by plane via Oulu, and already there I met Martin Koegler (Twitter: @MartiMasaKoex with whom we had nice conversations about Nokia, N9 and of course the new Jolla and #SailfishOS operating system. It was great to meet you Martin, and hope we’ll meet again.

Two #Jolla fans queuing early on 27th of Nov

When I arrived at the Narinkkatori in Helsinki, there were alreaydy two #Jolla fans queeing for their own new device in DNA-organized #hauskinjono venue. Henrti Huttunen (@kuuskutonen) was to become the first to receice / buy #Jolla before the rest of the 450 prebookers would get their owns

Henri Huttunen, #Jolla-queue number #1.

Later the queue had grown much longer and then finally all #Jolla enthusisast were entering the main tent, where launch event was to held, and most of the sailors, DNA and media representatives, and Jolla community members would meet.

Queue getting longer

The main venue and press release.

When people had started to enetr the main venue, a press conference abt Jolla was organized in collaboration with Jolla and DNA. The co-operation during Jolla development with operator had been close, and Jolla had received good customer feedback from test users, and the UX and features of phone have been enhanced because of this.

#Jolla queue moves on

DNA press release

 

 

 

 

 

 

Many qustions were also asked from Jolla and DNA about the details of the device and particularly abt the future plans of #Jolla to promote #SailfishOS availability after the sales and release of the first devicee.

Jolla CEO and #Jolla

The CEO of Jolla also mentioned that Jolla is hoping to get 1 million #SailfishOS driven devices sold now that the first #Jolla device has been launced.

The sailors and the first #Jolla

When it was time to sell the first Jolla Marc Dillon gave an emotional speech about the making of Jolla and the great spirit and co-operation of the team to provide us with a truly alternative and open mobile device. Marc invited all the first sailors on stage, after which it was time let Henri to have his own device and after that all the rest of us were ready to follow.. ;)

Jolla sailors at stage

Happy owner of first #Jolla with sailors

Stay tuned, I’ll be giving more details to this post later and in the part 2 will cover the device itself after I have had some time to unpack, test and play with it. The phone is great and I am proud the have my own #Jolla after two years of waiting time. Cheers for now ;-)

My Jolla to be unpackaged soon

Jukka Aaltonen, JollaTides, (Twitter: @jjaone)

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Jukka Aaltonen

IT-researcher, opensource advocate, teacher and community facilitator at public and private IT-enabled organizations

Professionally I've been solving Information Technology adaption and utilization challanges in private and public organizations (e.g. universities, governmental agencies and commercial enterprises). I've applied and developed in collaboration with enterprise decision makers and operational depertments organizational practices based on semantic web technologies, IT service management (Cobit, ITIL), and information security policies and standards.

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