Jolla might not announce a new phone of their own, as they are focused on delivering Sailfish OS mobile operating system to other manufacturers.



Update: New Sailfish OS phone manufacturer is located in India, and it will be announced during Mobile World Congress Shanghai on July 15 - 17, 2015

Update, June 13th 2015: A settlement has been reached between OnePlus and Micromax, and new smartphone models in India are running Oxygen OS (Android) out of the box, but can be flashed to Cyanogenmod12 with full update support and warranty. This reduces the possibility that OnePlus Two, announced on July 2015, would be shipped running on Sailfish OS. Phone manufacturers located in India are more probable candidates in this upcoming announcement.

"These numbers are useless to go into, because our strategy has completely changed. The focus is now on our operating system Sailfish OS and its licensing."

"We have certainly learned that a young start-up shouldn't run with two strategies at the same time. Price competition on the phone markets was too fierce and hardware development too fast for us."

"After the end of the year we received more than ten million euros investment. The company's value rose to $160 million on the basis of the financing round", Saarnio says.

"When one takes a look at the stock exchange listing of technology companies, the valuation for a few years old company is very good."

"Earnings are not expected soon, so as a start-up we take in more funding all the time. A new round of financing is currently on going", Saarnio says.

"We do not rule it out, but we no longer seek to be an equipment manufacturer in a large scale. We continue making spearhead products such as our Tablet."

Phone sales from last year were a clear disappointment, but Jolla is looking forward for the future of their operating system. It'll be free to 3rd party manufacturers, as the revenue is expected from sales made through devicesJolla phone did not sell as expected on 2014, but that doesn't seem to be a serious issue among the Sailors on the board. Jolla has confirmed that there will be another manufacturer using their independent operating system Sailfish OS, and this manufacturer will be announced already "before summer holidays".Unfortunately I didn't get additional information from Jolla at this point, other that according tothe information about the manufacturer is published "shorty".My personal bets are placed to India, where there are several phone manufacturing companies and a huge market. But also for exampleis looking for other operating systems to enter the markets in India, after it was denied to ship Cyanogen-powered phones by court.has an exclusive deal withthat prevents any other company from selling Cyanogen-powered devices in India. OnePlus could still ship their upcomingto India as well, just using different software on board.It's also been suspected that we might seerunning on Sailfish OS after it was seen in hands of Russian minister. However, both of these possibilities are pure speculation, and what we actually know is only that Jolla is expanding in BRICS countries with their operating system, and that we'll soon hear more.News mentioning a new manufacturer was first shared by Finnish business magazine, interviewingin an article concentrated on the financial situation of the company. Additional to negative news on the phone sales, there are positive expectations regarding the operating system Sailfish OS. Below, you can find the full article translated from Finnish:Sales estimates at Jolla didn't come true. Only tens of thousands of phones were sold last year.Telephone company Jolla, set up by Nokia's former employees, had 4.1 million in net sales according to information supplied by Jolla to the Trade Register of Finland.Similarly named smartphone Jolla went on sale in late 2013.told in November 2013 that the goal was to sell one million phones during the following year. Earlier, there was talk of hundreds of thousands.The figures went heavily into the woods. The initial price of the phone was 400 euros. If Jolla received from one phone to, say, a hundred euros, that would mean 40 000 phones sold last year. Even estimating the profit to much lower per phone, sales would still be within tens of thousands of pieces.Shareholders' equity amounted at the end of 2014 was half a million euros, funds at EUR 56,000. Operating profit was EUR 10.2 million negative.Chairman of the Board at Jolla, granted that phone sales were expected to be higher than what was realized. He still didn't identify the source as exact sales volumes.According to Saarnio, the financial position has been resolved after the end of the year, and the investors are not looking at the phone sales figures.Sailfish OS development takes about 20 million euros per year according to Saarnio. He promises that the first external phone manufacturer using Sailfish OS will be announced before the summer holidays.Jolla gives Sailfish OS to phone manufacturers for free. The revenue is taken as a proportion of online sales made through the devices.Jolla has recently reported that Russia will begin to build their own operating system based on Sailfish. Sailfish ecosystem is also being built up in Africa.Will there be a new smartphone model from Jolla?