The Youyota Tablet, 64bit device running Sailfish OS above 2.0 upon direct official license from Jolla, is successor and resurrected from oblivion incarnation of Jolla Tablet with the same original design and specifications, but 4500mA battery and versions with 32 or 64GB of built-in flash storage. As a product is the first tablet designed by Jolla running the company's Sailfish OS, a Linux-based OS built around the Mersoftware components. As a project it is the Jolla project with huge contribution by the MeeGo Sailfish community in development, creating, financing, testing, reporting, support and maintenance, illustrated by slogan "People Powered". That shaped the final device. In successfully finished crowdfunding campaign over $2.5 million had been raised from 21,633 backers. After multiple issues with production, financing and schedule a small number of devices was shipped in autumn 2015, while the company stated in December 2015, that due to lack of necessary components that are not available any longer the production was stopped
Jolla Branded Prototype Awarded in 2015
On the 5 March 2015, on the last day of Mobile World Congress 2015, the Jolla Tablet running with Sailfish OS 2.0, the not yet released prototype, was awarded with "The Best Tablet of the whole event" prize by Trusted Reviews. The project was unveiled and introduced during the congress for the first time publicly. It was introduction of both: the new OS and the new product. In fact Youyota tablet is the same prototype as in 2017 it was built using original documentation and design data taken from the original designer, so this award is related to Youyota Tablet also.
Operating system
The tablet was designed to be a host running Sailfish OS 2.0 by Jolla. This allowed and caused significant development and major updates based on predecessor the Sailfish OS 1.0. Fixes and upgrades counted in dozens of thousands, including :
support for new devices has become much easier,
default standard is implemented Wayland
adaptations needed for the Intel x86 platform and chipset architecture,
further developed including more reliable touch gestures based OS navigation and operations,
homescreen completely rewritten for Sailfish OS 2.0 based on extensive UX prototypes and user studies,
browser architecture revamped for better performance and the fully redesigned interface,
apps armed with much more sophisticated error handling,
user hinting and loading indications,
completed readiness for licensing Sailfish OS to 3rd parties vendors with eventual support of designing new mobile products by 3rd parties.
The new version 2.0 for the tablet was published at November 2015.
Android software support
Built-in Android compatibility layer of Alien Dalvik allows the usage of software in an emulated Android environment on a Youyota Tablet, without changes to the software nor performance slow-down, as Sailfish OS and Android both use the Linux kernel. Sailfish OS multitasking capabilities allows user switching between software, both native and emulated, running together at the same time on the fly.
Jolla official licensing and support
The Sailfish OS, with built in Alien Dalvik and MS Exchange, is licensed directly from Jolla. This assures OS compatibility, usage of recent stable dedicated OS version and future maintenance for upgrades according to further OS development by Jolla.
Release
The original launch date for the tablet was stated to be May 2017. The final prototype is to be finished in mid of May 2017. On 16-18th May in Hong Kong the Jolla is present at "Critical Communications Finland building trust in CCW2017" and Youyota's plan is to have the final prototype presentation with them. Crowd funding for the actual production run started on July 6, 2017. As of early January 2018, despite having been funded at 251% of the goal, the project's fate is uncertain as the costs of several components have risen well above expectations.
