The Finnish Smartphone manufacturer best known recently, Jolla presented yesterday evening now officially on the market. At the event in Helsinki, but only 450 units were actually exist - and this could be picked up only by pre-order. Already in may, it was possible to order the Jolla Terminal. In addition, after the first batch was sold, interested could order again in July. The new smartphone going to many previous customers in the next few days by post. The price is 399 euro.
The technical key figures can be. A 4.5-inch display with 960 × 540 pixels resolution (qHD), 16 GB of internal memory and a slot for MicroSD cards. The integrated 8 megapixel camera and a front-facing camera with still 2 mega pixels. The device of Jolla is seen as a successor of the Nokia N9 and N900 devices and comes with the maemo operating system. Jolla indicates that works the LTE chip on six continents, called but no frequencies. It also supports Bluetooth 4.0. The battery is strong in the 2100 mAh at 3.8 volts. This can be changed. Processor side you chose a Qualcomm with a 1.5 GHz clock rate.
Thus, the first sailfish OS smartphone is available. Thanks to a Swiss company myriad Android runtime Android apps but so can be used on the surface of the sailfish. Although they can be loaded by Google play, but from other sources. The Russian Yandex operates the sailfish official Android app store. So far, where 85,000 applications should be stored.
Homee is intended to replace all other remote controls of the user as a universal remote control for the home network. The development of code Studio from Stuttgart will be financed through Indiegogo. For the series production can begin, 100,000 euro are required. Then, the device from spring 2014 should be done.
The functional prototype supports devices with WiFi and Z-Wave, ZigBee, EnOcean. These are standards of from different manufacturers for home automation. Their devices to the regulation of heating, blinds, light, the opening of Windows and much more are not compatible with each other, forcing homeowners to get everything from a provider. Thus, homee wants to break and allow the control and automation on a single smartphone app.
Heart of the system is the so-called "brain cube". Communicates on the one hand with the app on your Smartphone or Tablet and with solutions such as nest, Netatmo, Koubachi, or Lockitron, the Wi-Fi as a communication standard use this hardware with Wi-Fi. More wireless protocols like ZigBee, Z-Wave and EnOcean can be used with other hardware that is simply attached to the cube of the brain.
Home is as open and modular system designed around allows the blind from A manufacturer, the boiler of manufacturer B and the sound via airplay or DLNA to control a single app via Smartphone and to regulate.
"With home ties to a manufacturer or wireless standard has an end definitively" code Studio-chef Jochen Schollig. Also an app for iOS and Android is already finished, with which users can submit proposals for possible applications. Ideas take part in the draw for an iPad mini.
At least 100,000 euros are necessary, souq dubai, so that the project can be realized. Prospective customers can pre-order a white homee brain cube for 89 euros. For approximately 150 euros there with yet the communication modules for the different systems to do so. The campaign runs until January 7, 2014.