Yesterday, at the Slush conference in Helsinki, the Finnish company Jolla presented the Sailfish mobile operating system based on the MeeGo platform.
An exceptional feature of the mobile OS is its interface, which immediately resembles the UI from Windows Phone and Android. He got tiles from the first one, widgets from the second one. It would be more accurate to say this: the tiles, which are called “cards” in Sailfish, are functionally not inferior to widgets: a long press on the map gives a list of actions that can be performed in the program.
The company plans to launch the first smartphones running Sailfish OS on the market in 2013. Now only the Nokia N9 smartphone, released in the summer of 2011, works under her control.
In the future, Jolla wants to produce devices both on its own and together with other vendors. The company has already signed a contract with the Chinese retail chain D.Phone and the Finnish cellular operator DNA. So the first gadgets on the Sailfish platform should be expected in these countries.
Many applications developed for Android will quietly go to the Jolla OS, the developers say, but if developers want their application to use all the advantages of the user interface Sailfish and worked without brakes, they will have to rewrite it to QT/QML.