Jolla Launch Event in Delhi, India on

Tuesday, September 23 10am (UTC)

@v_nayk Thanks for your interest! Yes, we just have some practicalities to take care of and we'll be there in a few weeks.

— Jolla (@JollaHQ) September 1, 2014

@itskumars we'll be available in India within a few weeks. Sign up w/ @snapdeal at http://t.co/9S5RklJDx4 to be the 1st to know! @JollaIndia

— Jolla (@JollaHQ) August 18, 2014

Jolla phone is available to order to India via snapdeal.com before August 19, 2014

Snapdeal has exclusive right for the Indian markets and according to Juhani Lassila , Head of Communications at Jolla, the agreement between Jolla and Snapdeal includes marketing efforts by Snapdeal

, Head of Communications at Jolla, the agreement between Jolla and Snapdeal includes marketing efforts by Snapdeal Snapdeal has 25 000 000 customer base. Snapdeal sells many other big brand phone models, and local brands with remarkable cheaper prices.

Taloussanomat asks if Jolla is taking a risk granting exclusive rights for such a competitive online marketplace.

Jolla differentiates with it's unique operating system Sailfish OS and Jolla's patented smart cover "The Other Half" which is able to provide extra content to the phone.

Link this post to your friends. Sharing is Caring!The company has started sending official invites for a September 23 event with a tagline that says, "Join the unlikely on September 23, 2014." The invite clearly confirms that the Jolla smartphones will be exclusively sold via SnapdealJolla, a smartphone company founded by ex-Nokians in 2011, on Thursday sent out media invites for an event on September 23 where the company would launch its first smartphone in India in partnership with SnapdealToday, e-commerce giant Snapdeal has already started distributing invitations to its September 23 event, which is taking place in Delhi. There's no obvious hint at what to expect, but it's not hard to make a few guesses.Jolla is, in overall, a very interesting company and they seem to have an exceptional operating system Sailifsh OS. Jolla has gained a nice interest levels in social media too, startup100.net ranked itin Finland just recently.However, Jolla has been critisized for their informating policy regarding both customer service and news. They have improved in this, but there's still a lot to do - for example the latest official press release still states that Jolla will be available India within a month (released July 18th), and the only corrections to that can be seen as two replies in Twitter.While waiting the launch, let's have a look at the interest towards Jolla in India, according to Google's search engines, and have a word on how the delay might have affected to that. The interest:The interest reached the maximum at November 2013 when Jolla was launched in Finland, as Jolla had nice visibility in the news sites. If we give value 100 to the interest level in Finland back then, on last month we were at level 30 in Finland and at level 2 in India. Seems like a very small level right under the launch, doesn't it? And we haven't seen much of hype or news around the launch either. Is there a purpose for such a silence, is this intentional?Looking at the Hong Kong interest levels, there was a steady rise in interest during the 3 weeks before the launch. In opposite to that, in India the press release (July 18th) has practically lost its value in the past weeks:So, organizing the launch in Hong Kong with operator 3 Hong Kong was a success but in India with Snapdeal it just doesn't work? Or did the nice VIP Package competition (August 1st - 9th) add up to the interest in Hong Kong?Taloussanomat, a Finnish business magazine, asked earlier if Jolla is taking a risk granting exclusive rights for such a competitive online marketplace in India (read below: Update July 19th).We don't know the reasons, as nothing has been shared. We only know that the launch is delayed. Well, luckily the worldwide interest of Jolla remains steady, showing just an expected "summer bumb" during the last 6 months:We expected this was the date when Jolla would be available in Indian markets via Snapdeal, but obviously there's been a delay. Jolla shared this tweet today, not nice to read it but what is nice that it was published today instead of keeping us on hold:You can now sign up on Snapdeal to be the first to know: