Almost there - some lucky ones get the new Jolla phone

After so much waiting Jolla Sailfish OS phones will be available In Helsinki Finland. Microsoft Windows Phone - go away! MeeGo and Sailfish OS - stay with us! See the video below. I took it this afternoon (11/27/2013) at ~ 4 PM. Those who made pre-order are standing in the queue and waiting for their phones.

Local operator DNA's popup store will sell the first Jolla-phones on Wednesday in Finland

Local operator called Jolla will sell the absolutely first Jolla-phones on Wednesday in Helsinki Finland. They are already building a popup store (tent) where selling is taking place. Actually dream will come true for only a few. Those who made pre-order earlier this year will receive this magical new phone with Sailfish OS.

If I have some spare time i'll pop up and take some pictures or video. Maybe someone wants to show how Jolla-phone looks like. You never know. Nevertheless, later this year anyone can walk to a store at least here in Helsinki and buy an own Jolla-phone.

Google in Finland is so cool!

Cool news from Finland! Google is investing in Finland. A lot! A little town named Hamina near russian border will receive another investment from Google which is expanding it's server farm. Why Hamina, Finland? Partly because of the cool weather. It takes a lot of energy to cool server farms... but not over here. Just open the window and you'll freeze to death ;P . Another part of the story is, in my opinion, the location of Hamina. Russia and it's second biggest town St. Petersburg is next door. So russian and asian clients can be served this way. Also, finnish stable infrastructure goes to show that nothing much changes here. That's a benefit. And only 50 km west from Hamina there is a nuclear power plant offering cheap energy. Keep in mind that a russian search engine Yandex is also staying in Finland mainly because of the same reasons as Google.

Get your own virtual Sailfish-phone

In case your want a Sailfish-phone of your own go and install Sailfish SDK which is available for Windows, Mac and Linux. You'll get an entire environment for developing software for Sailfish and in addition - a virtual phone which can run your test apps. Try this simple app first! Sailfish SDK requires that you have VirtualBox pre-installed.

Sailfish emulator up and running!

CyanogenMod as the next mobile OS for my Nexus 4?

My Nexus 4 will receive Android 4.4 in just a couple of weeks. How nice! There are a lot of new and exiting features for me to explore. Hard- and software live in perfect harmony? I guess so but what happens when the next Android (Android 5?) will be available? Is it possible to install it on my Nexus 4. I doubt.

What can I do (but wait)? Well, I can download and install *a real Open Source* OS called CyanogenMod! It's based on Android source code. So I'm betting on CyanogenMod. You see, CyanogenMod aims to build OS for those phones which Google abandons. I'm hoping to continue with Nexus 4 and CyanogenMod in the future.

Valkee bright light headset saves my day!

It's that time of the year again! Days are getting shorter and shorter. You feel sad and sleepy. Is there anything anybody can do about it? First of all, one can take care of life as a whole; sleep, nutrition, motion. In addition, Valkee bright light headset might come to help. The idea is to deliver light through ears to your brain. 10 min per day is enough to keep you going.

Valkee charges via computer USB. Using smartphone charger is not allowed. That's all there is you need to know. I can tell it's kind of hard to eat at the same time as using Valkee. So you'd better stay in bed with Valkee for another 10 minutes and then get up - hopefully refreshed!

I guess one can use Valkee while driving ;D.