Jolla, a Finnish mobile startup, has announced its first smartphone running the Sailfish OS.
Sailfish is developed by Jolla in cooperation with the Mer project (based on Intel's MeeGo). It sports a multi-tasking user interface that differentiates it from Android and iOS devices.
Today, Jolla announced its first mobile handset, "Other Half", and gave some limited spec details....Jolla ... [ read the full article ]
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Originally posted by Jemborg: Does "Android app compliant" mean it will play Android apps?
What's meant to be the advantage of Sailfish over Droid?
Seeing as he's requesting software developers to develop for Jolla, I doubt it will run Android apps.
And as you also said - what's the advantage of this over Android? In the limited details released, I can't see anything here that Android can't already do.
Quote:Android runtime
Sailfish OS includes the capability to run Android? applications through a third party solution. It is based on open source Android libraries, ensuring performance comparable to the native environment.
Quote:Android runtime
Sailfish OS includes the capability to run Android? applications through a third party solution. It is based on open source Android libraries, ensuring performance comparable to the native environment.
I still don't really see the point of this. People will need a reason to switch OS. If I want an OS to run Android Apps, I'll use Android. Rather than a third party solution on a different OS.
Even putting that aside, I still don't see what this offers that Android doesn't already offer. It says in the specs below that the multi-tasking interface differentiates itself from Android. How? Just because it looks different??
