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The future of smartphones has just gotten a tad more interesting with the emergence of a brand new handset and its even newer operating system - the Sailfish-running Jolla, which was teased back in May but we never quite expected to see light of day.

You might find that it looks oddly familiar; the team behind Jolla used to work for Finnish phone giant, Nokia. The operating system was known as MeeGo back in the day, but was scrapped in favour of developing the Windows Phone system we know today. Wrong move? Only time will tell.

Fronted in a 4.5in IPS qHD display with a 2MP front-facing camera and 8MP shooter on the other side, the 1.4GHz quad-cored Jolla comes with 16GB of internal storage, and a microSD slot for the option of storage expansion. Although not revolutionary - that screen is particularly low-res by today's standards - its specs put it in decent stead with the rest of the mid-range smartphones available today.