Sailfish Jolla's operating system has been unveiled at a press conference as the true open source operating system that will be built through community and participation. Jolla is a new Finnish company that arises from former Nokia workers who wanted to resume the failed project of MeeGo from a new perspective.
As we already know MeeGo was a failed operating system in which Intel and Nokia worked cooperatively together with the Maemo and Moeblin operating systems under the principles of Linux Foundation that sponsored them. His idea was compete with Android. The project was wrecked, but a few months ago a few Nokia employees and managers formed this company to give continuity to the project. The result is the SailFish operating system. Today they have shown us in a video what it will be like.
The difference with respect to other operating systems according to its creators is that we are talking about a open source and a real multitasking function. They have announced that the SDK will be available soon so that developers can be interested and develop applications for the operating system.
They have announced that they will create phones with their own Jolla brand but that there will be other brands as well. In fact, ST-Ericsson has already confirmed that its NovaThor platform already supports Sailfish. They also have the support of the Finnish operator DNA, which will promote smartphones with this operating system. Its CEO has announced that they will soon announce an agreement with another chipmaker. The interesting thing is that, apart from smartphones, they also want to jump to tablets, smart TVs and other types of smart devices like cars and others.
As for multitasking, it works in such a way that when we have an application running we can anchor it to the home screen in mosaic shapeFrom there it will continue to give us information on a smaller scale, but we will have access to others from that same screen.
As for the customization, there are many possibilities but the most striking is ambience which takes the colors of a photograph that we choose to create the user interface. This will be different in handling and the buttons will control the menus and not so much the dragging as in Android or iOS.
Another interesting fact is that the most of the applications present in Android they can be moved very easily and keeping their original appearance. We'll see how this all ends, but it sounds good for now.
Source: The Next Web