The firm Jolla, consisting of former Nokia employees, has collected cash to create the newest tablet with the help of crowd-funding - donations of potential buyers. On the website fundraising IndieGoGo project has collected the appropriate amount in just 2 hours.

After 2 hours, the firm has collected the appropriate amount of 380 thousand dollars, but did not stop. After 2 days from the beginning of the fundraising amount of donations reached 950 thousand dollars. Currently it has over one million.

The new tablet Jolla Tablet will run on an Intel processor with a clock frequency of 1.8 GHz and an internal memory of 32 GB. Front camera will own the resolution of the matrix 5 MP, and the size of the fixtures will be 203 x 173 x 8.3 mm is slightly larger than the iPad mini. A great advantage of the research is considered to be the price. The projected retail price is $ 249, which is one hundred and fifty below the amount requested for the iPad mini 3 and Nexus 9.

Jolla Tablet will run on your operating system Sailfish, which is the continuation of the research system Meego, which worked the Nokia N9. It is based on the Linux kernel and has an open initial code. The creators promise that Sailfish 2.0 will support Android apps, informs "the Russian newspaper".

In early may of last year Jolla presented similar phone running on Sailfish OS. In Russia, the phone was only available this month at a cost of 19 990 rubles. Developed the tablet will use the second version of the operating system.

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