Saturday 25 May 2013

Jolla's new HQ is Nokia's old Maemo/MeeGo R&D centre

Tiny but interesting little snippet of news, Jolla's new Ruoholahti headquarters in Helsinki are in the same building Nokia used as its Maemo/MeeGo research centre until it abandoned the platform.

It seems that Jolla is becoming more and more like a parallel universe Nokia that stuck with MeeGo instead of switching to Windows Phone.

Here's a news report about Nokia abandoning the research centre in 2012:

http://www.esphoneblog.com/nokia-closing-down-their-ruoholahti-office-in-helsinki-finland-17672

...here's a report about Jolla moving into the same building in 2013:

http://nokiagadgets.com/2013/05/19/jolla-on-finnish-tv-new-hq-shown/

...and here's the Finnish media coverage of the new headquarters (in case you're wondering why some people are sitting on the floor, they'd started work before the furniture arrived!):


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