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A group of ex-Nokia software developers unveiled its first smartphone on Monday,aiming to prove their former employer wrong by making a success of a technology dropped by the Finnish mobile phone maker.
Jolla was founded by Nokias former MeeGo software team that was shut down after the company decided to switch to Microsofts Windows Phone software in 2011. With just 70 employees and euro 11 million 14.11 million in venture financing,Jolla joins a handful of boutique operating systems such as Ubuntu which together have less than a 1-per cent presence in the mobile phone market.
Start-ups such as Jolla face a tough task breaking into the smartphone market. Googles Android and Apples iOS together account for 92 per cent of all shipments. Reuters
