Hardware is always hard. But if you’re playing at the margins of a mobile ecosystem dominated by Android and iOS, well, it’s best described as a bloodbath. To wit: Finland’s Jolla, which makes its own mobile OS Sailfish and — previously — its own mobile devices too, has confirmed that its crowdfunded tablet is being canned.
The Jolla Tablet project started as an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign, back in November 2014, which went on to raise more than $2.5 million from some 21,600 backers. The overly optimistic estimated shipping schedule for the slate was the following year. Instead, Jolla was showing off unreleased hardware at the MWC trade show last spring — where TechCrunch got hands on. And backers were left waiting for the rest of 2015.
Writing in a blog update on the tablet late last week, Jolla co-founder and chairman Antti Saarnio confirmed that only a very small number of backers will now get a tablet (540 units will ship, starting from February). He said the rest of the backers will get a refund — although this process may take up to a year.
http://techcrunch.com/2016/02/01/jolla-confirms-the-sailfish-tablet-is-dead/
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