A crowdfunded tablet with a unique operating system is back with a new option if you’re willing to pay for it.
In December, the Jolla tablet closed its Indiegogo campaign with more than four times the initial funding goal, but the campaign is now open again, says CNET. The company — comprised of ex-Nokia employees — has the money to push forward on the original product, so that’s not a problem.
Instead, it decided to offer a higher storage option for the tablet, which runs the Android-app compatible Sailfish OS. The Jolla tablet software is called Sailfish OS — that might not sound familiar, but maybe MeeGo might. Sailfish OS has its roots in MeeGo, the open-source mobile software effort backed by Intel, Nokia and others that was meant to challenge Apple iOS, Google Android and Microsoft Windows Phone.
The original Jolla tablet was priced for the funding effort in tiers: $189 for the first group, $199 for the next thousand backers and $209 after that. All of those prices were for the same device configuration: A 1.8 GHz quad-core Intel processor, 2GB of RAM, 32GB of storage, 7.9-inch 2048×1536 display and five-megapixel camera. What’s new is that for $249, Jolla is offering the tablet with twice the storage; you’ll get 64 GB of flash storage with the current campaign extension. Jolla expects the retail price for this model to be $299.
So what if you backed the 32GB version last year? Don’t sweat it: Jolla has a simple upgrade path. Anyone who previously committed to the original model can upgrade to the 64GB tablet by adding $20 to their initial pledge. That’s well worth it for the early birds.

